2007-12-11 06:37:22 · 10 answers · asked by Mere Mortal 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
Photoguy:
Nicely put. I am rolling!
"It used to be you had to go to someones home to see slide shows of their vacations, weddings, etc..., now its placed in online slideshows for literally billions of people to see."
2007-12-11 06:48:34 · update #1
Steven W.
I have noticed that too. Good observation.
"Lastly, people tend to believe that the moment they get a digital camera, they are Ansel Adams incarnate, and that they don't need to learn the basics since the camera and the program "does all the work for them," leading to stagnation."
2007-12-11 06:57:40 · update #2
Honestly, I feel that it is partially the fault of digital cameras and the little risk inherent in taking the pictures. When one losses nothing for making foolish mistakes in shooting, there is little impetus towards getting better.
Photoshop is also not helping things. People viewing Photoshop and programs of the like are viewed as a panacea that will help everything from the basics like exposure, and in some times for composition.
Lastly, people tend to believe that the moment they get a digital camera, they are Ansel Adams incarnate, and that they don't need to learn the basics since the camera and the program "does all the work for them," leading to stagnation.
2007-12-11 06:53:09 · answer #1 · answered by Steven W 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The world in general is probably flooded with very poor to mediocre photographs. That's probably a fact. But, the good thing is that the number of decent to amazing photographs has risen also. Just browsing flickr is a testament to that. People are still going to view what they want to view, and can only view so much in their busy lives. I'd like to think that there are proportionally better images than worse images.
In addition, the skill set to taking amazing images has probably increased slightly. Like anything else, people get bored easily and move on to other things. They think the best camera will take the best photos which we know isn't true. They're all hung up on shutter lag and color accent and the best brand of camera.
2007-12-11 07:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the digital camera made it cheaper to take pictures... so yes it increased the number of photos...And a good many of the photos taken are mediocre at best.... However look at the bright side of it... 1) digital pictures are easily deleted so a lot of bad pictures go to computer heaven. and 2) from every photographer good or bad a great show will happen once in a while, with digital cameras there a much better chance that everyone will eventually have that one great shot that makes up for all the bad ones.
2007-12-11 07:14:18 · answer #3 · answered by IG64 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In general there is far too much information available today. Most of it completely useless to most of those that have access to it. Photography (via the digital camera) plays a role in there somewhere, but the phenomenon is far greater than photography alone. I mean how many pointless hours do we spend on YA reading and ansewering and asking the same dumb q's over and over.
2007-12-11 06:52:25 · answer #4 · answered by Dawg 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
of course, before people would take 4 or 5 terrible shots then put the camera away till christmas. now they take 1000s of horrible shoots - hoping for an accidental good one.
personally i would rather have 1 good shoot that takes me an hour to make/lite that 1000 horrible shots taken in a day.
and yeah everyones a pro now all they have to do is buy a better camera - not
dude love your questions!!
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2007-12-11 17:41:24 · answer #5 · answered by Antoni 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mere Mortal, I'm glad to see that you are spending your Yahoo! points so freely. I really enjoy your questions. You are a breath of fresh air. I wish I had a raft of interesting questions like you do. I am flooded with mediocre questions, though, thanks to my digital brain.
2007-12-11 17:16:20 · answer #6 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
I also believe that we're being overrun by people who seem to think that buying a DSLR somehow transforms them from being an inept snapshooter into being a professional photographer.
2007-12-11 10:03:24 · answer #7 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nah, the internet did that.
The world has always had mediocre photos (I made alot of them myself), but its just easier to spread the misery now.
It used to be you had to go to someones home to see slide shows of their vacations, weddings, etc..., now its placed in online slideshows for literally billions of people to see.
And you dont have to spend $$'s on developing and lousy prints.
2007-12-11 06:44:17 · answer #8 · answered by photoguy_ryan 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't believe it did. I think the users, mtv, and image search engines did that.
2007-12-11 06:46:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You've obviously seen my portfolio...
2007-12-11 16:23:45 · answer #10 · answered by V2K1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋