Is Photography Going Out of Fashion?

[boskysquelch]

And another thing. On Flickr why do people go "nice capture". Why don't they just say "nice picture". They're pictures, I've not caught anything, at best, borrowed it.

because generally the images are no Photographs...but captured glimses of a scene.

because generally these Images are caught...happenstance...they do not rely upon the Light or even sometime the Subject...but purely and simply because a person has a camera(digi) they can and do taken pictures without care...due to the perception of minimal cost.


I watch HUNDREDS of people everyday day take THOUSANDS of digital images...most are not taking Photographs...they are "capturing".."catching"..."snatching" a record of their existence in that place at that time...the image become I was here...not what I saw/see/feel of that instant...but where I was in my time. Sadly.



FFS.. "capture" has been around since at least 2000..get over it.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Snob.

 

[boskysquelch]

How come you didn't use your super secret special language that time, language snob?

I learnt to type how I think not how I speak.

 

[boskysquelch]

Snob.

inverted elistist.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Snobbery.

inverted elistist.

Gibberish.

 

[boskysquelch]

so what youre trying to say Refused is Fuck is that you in particular jus happen to take pictures of certain quality. with certain regards to light, with certains regards to composition & tones(pffft)...all accidentally and preferentially with regards to a genetic mixup.

and then you bring them here to share for no reason other than you have & afford the technology to do so.

Pseud.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Why is your hair grey? Hair colour snob.

 

[boskysquelch]

Why do you bother?

 

[Refused as fuck]

I see your retard language has disappeared now that you're spouting cod-psychology. I have no need to justify myself to you, a snob.

 

[cybertect]

And another thing. On Flickr why do people go "nice capture". Why don't they just say "nice picture". They're pictures, I've not caught anything, at best, borrowed it.

Digital/electronic terminology, innit. Goes back to the early 90s with digital cameras and scanners to my personal knowledge, probably the 60s or 70s (anyone got an earliest use citation?).

It's distinct from 'taking a picture' as image capture devices may be doing it ways that are unrelated to traditional stills photography.

A device that does both still photography and motion video is an obvious example; it avoids the conflict of terminology between 'taking a picture' and 'making a film'.

 

[Refused as fuck]

I prefer my soul-catcher interpretation.

 

[6_6]

Photography is not dead.
do you see photography = serious SLR?

The digital wave of things makes photography more popular than ever.
There's different types of photography - instant, snappy snaps, digital, analogue...

It should not be exclusive or catalogised as a novelty or snobbish hobby only.

 

[fubert]

because generally the images are no Photographs...but captured glimses of a scene.

because generally these Images are caught...happenstance...they do not rely upon the Light or even sometime the Subject...but purely and simply because a person has a camera(digi) they can and do taken pictures without care...due to the perception of minimal cost.


I watch HUNDREDS of people everyday day take THOUSANDS of digital images...most are not taking Photographs...they are "capturing".."catching"..."snatching" a record of their existence in that place at that time...the image become I was here...not what I saw/see/feel of that instant...but where I was in my time. Sadly.



FFS.. "capture" has been around since at least 2000..get over it.

Thanks. I still think it makes them sound like wankers though.

 

[boskysquelch]

I think it sounds like some people don't have as much of an understanding of the diversity of language used on the Net or IRL, that they think/thought. tbh.

tusses.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Thanks. I still think it makes them sound like wankers though.

They are wankers, fubert.

 

[untethered]

When was photography "in fashion"?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

In the "good old days" of course...

 

[untethered]

In the "good old days" of course...

The good old days were great.

I don't remember photography being terribly in fashion, though, any more than writing was in fashion.

 

[untethered]

I suspect the real premise of this thread was "when was there a clear distinction between serious amateur photographers who devoted huge personal resources to taking large numbers of photos and the rest of the population?".

 

[Padcore]

Digital technolgy has made photography easy and instant for all.

Has it?

 

[boskysquelch]

Has it?

for the majority that would sit & consider this post... I imagine. yes.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Porn is the subject. It's always been around. Photography is the medium. Digital photography is a very new medium.

Porn has gone from paper and pen to photographs to video to digital production and distribution. Porn hasn't changed..

The methods of production and delivery have changed, as has the availability. Just like photographs in general, aka, photography.

 

[boskysquelch]

I suspect the real premise of this thread was "when was there a clear distinction between serious amateur photographers who devoted huge personal resources to taking large numbers of photos and the rest of the population?".

I imagine that the OP has been recently engaged in widening his horizons & passing comment upon the language he finds puzzling through a lack of shared field of experience.

/cod

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

And another thing. On Flickr why do people go "nice capture". Why don't they just say "nice picture". They're pictures, I've not caught anything, at best, borrowed it.

I know why they say it, but it always seems a little pretentious to me, somehow. I usually say, 'nice photo'.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I watch HUNDREDS of people everyday day take THOUSANDS of digital images...most are not taking Photographs...they are "capturing".."catching"..."snatching" a record of their existence in that place at that time...the image become I was here...not what I saw/see/feel of that instant...but where I was in my time. Sadly.
.

The process might involve capturing a scene, etc, but what you end up with, is a photograph.

 

[boskysquelch]

The methods of production and delivery have changed, as has the availability. Just like photographs in general, aka, photography.

everything has changed. Fox Talbot took Photographs. No one has take Photgraphs ever since....cept maybe the Pinholists.

Do you ever eat advacados?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I suspect the real premise of this thread was "when was there a clear distinction between serious amateur photographers who devoted huge personal resources to taking large numbers of photos and the rest of the population?".

 

[fubert]

I know why they say it, but it always seems a little pretentious to me, somehow. I usually say, 'nice photo'.

Yeah that's what I think too.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

everything has changed. Fox Talbot took Photographs. No one has take Photgraphs ever since....cept maybe the Pinholists.

Do you ever eat advacados?

I eat avocados, and I take photographs with my digital camera.

 

[boskysquelch]

The process might involve capturing a scene, etc, but what you end up with, is a photograph.

sounds like you are wrong.etc