Johnny Canuck3
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Perhaps it sounds that way, but in fact, I'm not.
Is Photography Going Out of Fashion?
- Thread starter Stanley Edwards
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Perhaps it sounds that way, but in fact, I'm not.
Johnny Canuck3
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Camera snobs have become unhappy with the fact that it's no longer necessary to spend thousands of dollars on boxfuls of equipment in order to make photographs. Digital technology has made photography much more accessible. But even so, that doesn't mean that it has become immediately possible for everyone to make good photographs. That has to do with something other than just the technology.
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TBH I took some of my favourite pictures with a disposable camera.
you eat testicles and point a machine that records a voltaic difference by capturing/metering a portion of light reflected of the scene proferred; records the combined recordings of that event to data that you may access via other technologies.
The use of the word photography has been a misnomer since it's incorporation into common language IMO.
I can live with it.
Johnny Canuck3
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you eat testicles and point a machine that records a voltaic difference by capturing/metering a portion of light reflected of the scene proferred; records the combined recordings of that event to data that you may access via other technologies.
The use of the word photography has been a misnomer since it's incorporation into common language IMO.
I can live with it.
It probably is a misnomer, but it's the word we've come to use.
and by the same logic the Net community of digi based photographers(sic) have long used the term "capture" for digital photographs(sic_agin).
Heyho.
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Johnny Canuck3
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and by the same logic the Net community of digi based photographers(sic) have long used the term "capture" for digital photographs(sic_agin).
Heyho.
Tide's now right... I'm off to land this week's crabs & lobsters
Yes, but I still don't much like the term, just as I don't like the use of the word 'impact' as a verb. Personal preference.
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When I worked for William Eggleston & Elliot Erwitt, so did they.
Ok.
Funny you brought that up. Just the other day I made my own pinhole camera with cardboard boxes and 'captured' some quite interesting scenes.
I don't understand why the word 'capture' is snobbish
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gosh i do hope so those relentless tosser posures and their 'alt art' lifestyles and their excrutiatingly boring opinions on others artisitic worth are frightfully tiedious....
GarfieldLeChat
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all of this is bollocks tho the nostalgia about old photographs from bygone ages and how they may or may not as increasingly we learn (bresson I'm looking at you), were as posed and set up and also as snatched as captured as they are now the difference is that there was also the school of classical photograhpy which has fallen out of fashion much as folk music and classical music exchanged places to the general public so has the original stuides made with light and it has gone more into capture of historical record.
That's ok but it would be a shame to see the classical photography the study of light dissappear. fortunately we aren't at the point were this is likely to happen anymore than classical music is in danger of dying out and modern digital technologies are still in their infancey once sensor technology takes off then it'll be limitless in what we can do.
in the mean time pointless pontificating about whether or not the quaility of people photos is of a higher or lower standard than your own is a shit small minded way to go...
particularlly if your own standard leaves as much in terms of good photography (as opposed to whether I like the style or subject of your photographs) to be desired.
people in glass houses and all that stantley.
That's ok but it would be a shame to see the classical photography the study of light dissappear. fortunately we aren't at the point were this is likely to happen anymore than classical music is in danger of dying out and modern digital technologies are still in their infancey once sensor technology takes off then it'll be limitless in what we can do.
in the mean time pointless pontificating about whether or not the quaility of people photos is of a higher or lower standard than your own is a shit small minded way to go...
particularlly if your own standard leaves as much in terms of good photography (as opposed to whether I like the style or subject of your photographs) to be desired.
people in glass houses and all that stantley.
You iz teh
Photography is dead. Buried even. The masses will desert faster than they deserted the other cool stuff.
(The quoted post excepted). Sort of knew you sensitive folk would take exception and feel a bit rattled even though I clearly stated I wasn't pointing fingers (least at genuine enthusiasts).
FlickR has killed photography. On the other hand, perhaps it's given real enthusiasts a new lever?
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You are dead inside.
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
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Yeah, I am.
That's the title of the current Rhurbarb Rhurbarb project.
GarfieldLeChat
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Well, yes - quite my point
You obviously missed my earlier post
You dearhard have missed mine...
still what exactly have you got against the common man picking up the magic picture box and hamfistedly recording their lives and posting it else where for others to see.
do we ban girls aloud and force people to only listen to brahms?
sure there are different asthetics to the two and preference might dictate which you'd rather hear in a given situation, but that's all it is.
unless you are some kind of excessive cultural snob who would rather harp on about some obscure little pecadilos to justify their own largely monsterious behaviour. I mean really.
who made you cultural tzar?
is the skill set which has always been limited to a few who have the time and deication to spend to learning the craft and do those group of people have a higher level of knowledge about the subject is a moot question.
is what has become of the popular secular use of cameras to record history of our linal existance as it unfolds acceptable to you and if it is go out there and shoot it. embrace that spirit and don't fear for the idea that you are living behind the lens one step removed.
unless you are. but then you need to ask your self is it the camera which is placing the barrier between you and your subject or is it just a metaphore for the barrier you are placing in between you and them.
So which is it.
As boskey said if you are using your camera as a metaphore you wanna watch that. it's not healthy. Might even get you killed if you end up thinking your invincable behind the viewfinder. cos you're not. at best at least it'll serve as a reminder you are doing it.
then all you need to know is why you do.
oh and stanley.
for the record.
you totally like do.
maybe that's why you've got this conflict between classical and popular photogrpahy.
you know.
Absolutely nothing. When did I ever say I had?
All I've said is that I think photography is going out of fashion. It's peaked. It is (perhaps now was) more popular than ever. The 'must have a nice digi SLR as a fashion accessory' crowd are losing interest. Losing interest because it couldn't deliver the promise. Everyone knows that now. The cool factor has long since past.
You understand now? Or, will you always be a dumb fuck twat arguing with yourself?
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Holga's are apparently cool with the hipster twat crowd now. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried, could you?
Hipsters with Holgas are just twats. Nothing
there.The thread title is actually a question open for debate. Never claimed to be judge and jury.
Another dumb fuck twat arguing with themselves for sake of arguing.
But, I am right of course
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Yeah, hipsters have nothing to do with what's fashionable. They always do the opposite of following new trends.
Exactly. They're sheep. Yesterdays news.
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from my perspective what I see is people purchasing a dSLR & underestimating, both pre & post purchase, the variety of allowances & range of adjustments available... too much info to take on....too many parameters available to consider & justify adjustment "accurately" unless the user is VERY conversant with quite a lot.
the things are very lack lustre once in the hands...especially if the user has already delighted in the use of compact/point n shoots and the Default(s) of processed output.
but that is much more a RTFM & THEN SOME dSLRwise thang ...whereas most pnses or compacts/moby are governed within parameters that were allowed or chosen via purchase/recommendations/reviews.
Traditional photography is pretty sewn up as for the last 20 odd years.. in a technicaly sense... E6 & auto-focussing/VR lenses being the last two improvement leaps of film based photography.
Digi imaging, the process of scene capture & conversion, ain't over yet.
Even the language.
And the whole Holga/Russki thang has been goin on since at least 1982...so that ain't no_where_nu.
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I didn't say it was new.
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This trend is percieved as new, thicko, not the camera. I'm taking about fashion trends.
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