Easy Photography?

Question

it is my personal opinion that with digital dominating the market it is easy to make anyone a good phtographer. alot of ppl go on here and ask how r my pictures? and u can tell right away they were taken with a digital camera. i think it is easyto make ANYTHING look good with the ultra fine resolution digital cameras have.

im in colloge taking a photography class and it feel great being able to work at making ur photography beatiful in the dark room. its not just snap and go. its shoot, develope, print. its a beautiful thing.

i guess technology can make anyone anything now a days.

whats ur opinion?

Answer 1

I love film photography, I love the whole developing and printing process, and being able to adjust your photos without the use of a computer. I can spend hours in a dark room with my negatives, feeling like I'm in my own little world. I do black and white only, and it's such a weird feeling when I leave the room and have to remember that the world is in color.

That being said, the camera doesn't make the photographer. But I do feel like in a way, those with digital are cheating, by tinkering with their photos using software like photoshop, to increase colors or saturations, things like that.

Answer 2

I have a different take on this. Digital photography has taken mediocre snapshots and even worse post processing to the next level. And accessibility to display the results is affecting the perception of what a decent photo is in terms of exposure and composition. You can take any poor out of focus snapshot, Photoshop the heck out of it, and call it art. Or, if you prefer, make it B&W, obviously B&W has to be artistic. Even better, put one part in color.

I am a photo lab manager, so I see lots of film and digital come through. I believe it is harder for the average person to get a good digital print as opposed to a good film print. For one thing, digital cameras are more complicated to figure out, and digital has less exposure latitude than negative film. To use a point and shoot film camera, just load it and snap. The auto exposure and lab printer will do the rest. With a digicam, the camera does decide, but often chooses settings that degrade image quality, like high ISO, auto WB, and digital zoom. So the operator needs to be more in control, and often that does not happen.

So, no, I don't think digital is making better images or photographers on the whole.

Answer 3

Photography is easy - just look at the multitude of teens on here with crap self portraits, pics of feet, close-ups of writing, etc etc ad nauseam. GOOD photography on the other hand is hard - you need to know thoroughly how to visualise an image and shoot it, which means a good understanding of the technical aspects and the creative aspects and how to put them together. Edit: Samantha - good photography is not about having the best camera, its about being able to 'see' an image and know where, when & how to take it. The most important part of a camera is the 6 inches or so behind it! I'm going to chuck in a couple of Ansell Adams quotes here; "A good photograph is knowing where to stand" "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept" Says its all really...

Answer 4

The problem here is the perseption of what "looks good". So many people these days are takeing crappy digital pictures and then just bringing them into photoshop slapping abunch of filters and effects on them and suddenly to the untrained eye they "look good" so there for they're cool. The truth of the matter is that these people who rely on photoshop to make there images cool do so because they lack the expertise and knowledge of correct exposer, proper lighting, correct color balanceing, composition, or anything that truely makes a good photographer good, weither they use digital or film. I guess the best way I like to explain it is; you can take a turd and pollish it up but all your going to have is a polished turd.

Answer 5

Buying a camera, digital or film, doesn't maky a photographer (let alone a good photographer) any more than going out an buying a guitar makes you a musician. You have to learn your craft.

Anyone with a camera can take an award winning picture. A good photographer can tell you how he or she did it and stands a good chance of taking another and another and another. A person with a camera can get lucky, but if they only depend on luck, they may never get another good shot for the rest of their life.

In order for anyone to call them selves a photographer, they need to at least understand the basics of photography -- exposure, composition, framing, focal length, f/ number, depth of field, etc. A good photographer learns these fundamentals and a great photographer spends his or her vocational or avocational career trying to master them. I've been shooting at one level or another for more than 40 years, and I'm still learning and working on mastering my craft.

Easy Photography? Yes, it's called taking snapshots. I would never call someone who has only mastered the art of taking good snapshots a photographer. There's so much more to it that just pointing a camera in one direction or other and pressing a shutter release.

Answer 6

Actually, I take just as bad of pictures with digital cameras as I do with film. It's just with digital pics, it's possible to fix them after the fact, to a point anyway.

It's not the ultrafine resolution that makes the difference. Anything past a certain point cannot be recognized by the human eye, unless you break out a magnifying glass.

Answer 7

hmmm...im not sure...i know what you mean, using film/manual camera settings etc is professional and only for professionals but other ppl dont need the hassle because they are not into photography but photos for memory of good times. they couldnt care less. its the photographers who know the quality of what the story in the photograph says etc and its light, angle, composition etc etc Other ppl couldnt care less. Yup, i've never done the dark room thing but ive always wanted to though. Seems fun :)

Answer 8

People ask me, "What kind of camera did you use to take your pictures? They are really good." It is not the camera that takes the picture, it is the photographer. It is about lighting, composition, emotion. Digital or film, it doesn't really matter. Either you have it or you don't.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

my opinion is you are lost, but you are right that its easy to shot crap

cameras are dumb and people who think they are smart are even dumber..........but please continue thinking the way you do and trained fotogs that can use "light" will always produce better work - hence professional - and ametuers will carry on in automatic and using the computer to try to make crap look good or "professional" and it cant be done....

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