Real_JamesCainSomeone commented on one of my photographs that it was a “beautiful capture”. It made me feel like it was just a snapshot. Some photographs out there are so digitally manipulated they no longer seem to be real images; they are still stunning, but can you still call them photographs? I honestly don’t know. Photographers have been manipulating images from day one, instead of the computer, it was the dark room. I guess I take umbrage that if my photograph isn’t presented with a thousand filters, appears with a cursive watermark, and isn’t artistic in some way, that my photograph is somehow invalid. #Photography #Photographer #PhotographerRant #Art #ArtAdvice #ArtRant
Barry Schwartz 🫖@real_jamescain OTOH isn’t the difference mainly in how long it took to do the work, which is simply a technical issue?
@chemoelectric So what’s the cutoff for an artistic photo? 5 minutes? 5 hours? 5 days? I have my camera calibrated to take the photo the way I want. Post process, I’ll color correct it and present it the way I want. I’ve been doing this long enough, that I know exactly what settings I want to adjust and thanks to technology I see real-time feedback. Sometimes that takes less than a minute, other times I can fiddle with something for a couple hours and produce a mediocre result.
@real_jamescain My point is that this question is a category error. :) It’s two different things.