Thanks for a profound analysis! I share your views and have myself been thinking along the lines you are discussing. Even if we can't please others with our photos, we can aim for pleasing ourselves. Getting the compostion, the light, colors and the moment "right" will always be a challenge and we can experience joy when we succed once in a while.
Hi! Thank you very much for your feedback. This is very true - we can always please ourselves with the photography, and this is something nobody can take away. Kind regards!
All true - painting and drawing are very direct art forms. For example you could put paint on canvas with your fingers. I think the directness of painting is the reason “fine art”paintings sell for much higher prices than photographs. Photography involves the use of equipment. The equipment stands between the artist and the image. With painting, not much stands between the artists and his or her output. I’m a photographer but have no illusions about photography being seen as high art (expensive) like painting, drawing and sculpture.
Hi! Photography is certainly an art form, equal to painting. However, some people think that it's the camera, not the photographer, that does most of the magic. Photos tend to sell for less than paintings because you are not limited to how many copies you can make. Ansel Adams was an exception because he put original art into each of his print and that could not be reproduced. But in digital era things are different. Thank you very much for taking the time to share your thoughts!
I remember 2003, I was working for a computer magazine and Olympus flew me, among dozens of other european journos to Salzburg, Austria to test their new digital mju. They gave us all a camera each and we started shooting around. I was a computer geek and knew nothing about photography - not that I know much now. The camera section on the magazine was vacant and I took it reluctantly. As you can imagine, the scrubs like me who had the camera on auto, took awful pictures with blue snow, fuzzy movement, unfocused, horrible exposure, you name it. The pros knew how to properly use this 3MP consumer point and shooter and took fantastic pictures, for once they knew how to over-expose to get bright white snow. Now AI will take the perfectly exposed picture for you, even if you are a scrub like me. You will still get a great photo, but you'll have learned nothing.
Thanks for a profound analysis! I share your views and have myself been thinking along the lines you are discussing. Even if we can't please others with our photos, we can aim for pleasing ourselves. Getting the compostion, the light, colors and the moment "right" will always be a challenge and we can experience joy when we succed once in a while.
Hi! Thank you very much for your feedback. This is very true - we can always please ourselves with the photography, and this is something nobody can take away. Kind regards!
agree! that's why after 40 years I started using a film camera again. thank you! 👍🏻
Hi! Thank you for your feedback. Film cameras is, indeed, fresh air in the digital world. Best of luck to you!
All true - painting and drawing are very direct art forms. For example you could put paint on canvas with your fingers. I think the directness of painting is the reason “fine art”paintings sell for much higher prices than photographs.
Photography involves the use of equipment. The equipment stands between the artist and the image. With painting, not much stands between the artists and his or her output.
I’m a photographer but have no illusions about photography being seen as high art (expensive) like painting, drawing and sculpture.
Hi! Photography is certainly an art form, equal to painting. However, some people think that it's the camera, not the photographer, that does most of the magic. Photos tend to sell for less than paintings because you are not limited to how many copies you can make. Ansel Adams was an exception because he put original art into each of his print and that could not be reproduced. But in digital era things are different. Thank you very much for taking the time to share your thoughts!
I remember 2003, I was working for a computer magazine and Olympus flew me, among dozens of other european journos to Salzburg, Austria to test their new digital mju. They gave us all a camera each and we started shooting around. I was a computer geek and knew nothing about photography - not that I know much now. The camera section on the magazine was vacant and I took it reluctantly.
As you can imagine, the scrubs like me who had the camera on auto, took awful pictures with blue snow, fuzzy movement, unfocused, horrible exposure, you name it. The pros knew how to properly use this 3MP consumer point and shooter and took fantastic pictures, for once they knew how to over-expose to get bright white snow.
Now AI will take the perfectly exposed picture for you, even if you are a scrub like me. You will still get a great photo, but you'll have learned nothing.
Hi! Thank you very much for your thoughtful post. I really enjoyed reading it. Kind regards!