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- Hombre_Lobo0
@vaxorcist
love the cello joke. So true. Agree with you're post.
*The good photographers will always stand out in the sea of mediocrity.
*the abundance of camera tech just make it more a accessible to the masses, that doesn't make them any more skilled, just accessible.
*the fundament studies of photography will always be the important stuff. I doubt that the average joe who picks up a new cam will be interested in 'undertsanding exposure' or 'a guide to photographic composition'
*The technology is more accessble, but more accessible to everyone including the pros, kinda making it more of a level playing field. If you gave a thousand people paints and a canvas and told them to paint, the good painters will stand out.
*it's very hard to determine if accessibility will raise or reduce the quality level - making the technology so accessible will ultimately push the skill level of as it will be so easy for more people to participate. Counter arguement - when equipment and processes were more complex only those with a real thirst for photography would get involved, overall producing a high level of quality.
I think that now anyone can take a photo, which is great. But it does mean there will be a mass increase in mediocrity. I'm just happy for those who get interested in it and want to learn more and for those who really enjoy it regardless of the images produced :)
- Hombre_Lobo0
I do think the trigger happy unconsidered photography approach is a plague though*. I'm so guilty of it.
Instead of taking 30 crap pics I should take my time, use my eyes and take 1 decent pic.
I suspect others on these boards are guilty of it too. Maybe not those guys in the 'show your recent pics' thread :)
*but if it makes the shooter happy, I approve.
- Hombre_Lobo0
I really should print more photos.
I hate this mentality of taking lots of photos and post processing them only to be stored on a hard drive, rarely seen again. What's the point. Flickr is ok though, at least the world/friends can see them.
- +1ali
- Thanks Hombre, this is what I was getting at, and you put it better.epigraph
- lol np, i totally got what you were saying :P
its no fun is it, leaving them to rot on a HDD. get printing!Hombre_Lobo
- jaylarson0
i always wonder what kind of photographer i could/would be if there wasn't electricity.
- You'd be a waterfall photographer. Just like now! :DHombre_Lobo
- how would you print photos without electricity?epigraph
- contact printing I guess, assuming you have some darkroom backgroundbetelgeuse
- yeah, i'd probably go back to drawing.jaylarson
- animatedgif0
ITT pretentious photography nerds who are upset that some hot girl whos daddy bought her a fancy camera gets more attention doing the same hobby than they ever will.
- bigtrick0
chilamont, get fucked, with your irrelevant stock image posts in every thread
- epigraph0
Like Hombre_Lobo was saying, I just wonder if people are going to get tired of taking photos just to store them on the hard drive, and want to start having physical prints made, for albums and such.
This has turned into a "who is a real photographer?" discussion, which is cool too, just not what I was getting at.
- yeh many misinterpreted it, myself included, but thankfully i ramble on enough to get back on point!Hombre_Lobo
- betelgeuse0
IMHO
"You only committed to making a photo if it really mattered to you."
Not really, people shot just as much garbage on film as they do today on digital.
"Do you think there will be a collective shift towards creating images with purpose, placing more value on tangible photographic objects like prints, and books?"
Nope. The photographic print is a dieing medium.
- bigtrick0
why would there be a shift towards creating images with purpose, when everything indicates that images are being treated more and more as a banal commodity?
- bjladams0
@betelgeuse:
idk man, i shoot a lot more because of digital than i did on film. i was a lot more hesitant with film as it cost money every click... i know memory card costs money too, but one memory card gets a lot more action then the =$ of film did.- True. But it doesn't mean that what's being shot on digital is in anyway more thought out or important. There's just more of it.betelgeuse
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- epigraph0
bigtrick, you hit the nail on the head that images are being treated like a banal commodity, but I wonder if tangible photographs which carry a story and history of their own will come to be revered again. What's old is new again.
- a photo really does loose it's soul when the only place you ever see it is on a screen.epigraph
- betelgeuse0
"What's old is new again."
As photography becomes more banal and easy to do there will be those who seek out old methods and channels of creating images. But I think these people will be the exception to the rule.
- epigraph0
The world is for all intents and purposes one big collective video camera nowadays. No moment is left untouched.
There has got to come a point when photos collectively become as boring as the majority of real, mundane life. Then actual image making with purpose will start to stand out. no?
- betelgeuse0
Have you heard of ZINK printing technology?
Doesn't require ink cartridges, all the dyes are in the paper and are activated by heat. Small and easy to use I can see these being installed in numerous devices in the next few years (tv's, computers cameras, ect.). If printers like this become widely used I could see people doing more printing.
- never heard of it,thanks for the heads up, this looks promisingepigraph
- bjladams0
got a lot of friends who own dlsr's and fancy lenses and take them everywhere and tell everyone that they're a photographer... most of them think that the setting with the flower is for taking pics of flowers, and the one of the mountain is for mountains only... then they post the results of facebook and it makes me sad...
- SteveJobs0
i don't think the medium itself is to blame. it's the fact that you can see so much good and bad photography all over the web so effortlessly. it's hard to appreciate the art for what it once was, printed or not.
- it is easier to share a picture and also take it. hence, it feels like a flood of shit.dibec
- dibec0
i disagree.
Sure. Some asshat get an iPhone and load some photo app and woo-hoo-woo. Ask that person to take a photo of something, see what happens. That is the true talent. Photographers are able to take pictures, anywhere, everywhere. Your asshats get lucky. Give them another camera, see what they can do without their apps and woo-hoo-woo.
- ^ can.dibec
- what? i know there's a lot of asshats with iphones but SLRs are really no different. you just have to be slightly richer to buy one.kingsteven
- totally. but most people don't buy a iphone for the camera. i felt it was a better example. ;)dibec
- iPhone or DSLR w/e. I still get the point. Random million snaps will make a good pic. But consistently good images is true skill.Hombre_Lobo
- dibec0
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