Tracy and Eugene,
You both make excellent points. In the end it really doesn't matter how the finished product came about. If it is something you like, buy it; if not, then keep on walking.
As for modern cameras and technology making it easier... technology doesn't make a good photograph a good artist does. I am sure plenty of you have had the occasional comment of "you must have a really good camera?" Anytime I get a comment like that I usually limit the response to "there is a little more to it than that".
It reminds me of the guys you see walking the shows with their $5,000 camera slung over their shoulder. It is highly likely that the shots they are producing with that thing they might as well be doing on their cell phone. Guys like that are why I am never keen to go to any kind of place where a large group of photographers are meeting up, it becomes a "my lens is bigger than yours contest".
Eric Clay
fadedbeauty.com
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> Tracy, I agree. There is the act of taking a photo - akin to the
> snapshots of the old days - and today's gear is easy to do that with -
> using little to no skills - heck, even my phone can take an 5 mp pic and
> it has an HDR mode - but to create a memorable image, one that is both
> beautiful to behold and evocative of emotion - will that is where the
> artistry comes in. Some pics are catch and record - events and moments -
> and that that makes them memorable - but many others have layers of
> moods and impressions - and, as in painterly art, the artist must take
> some license to get the point across, so must the photographic artist. I
> have no issues with bending the rules - in fact, I am one who believes
> that rules were meant to be bent/broken - or at least questioned. True
> creativity cannot exist within structure. If structure were permitted to
> reign, then all the artwork would look the same.
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:01 AM, tracy.willis@... wrote:
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> With today's technology, anyone off the street can take a good
> photo. But it takes a true artist to make photographic art. Matters
> not to me if they do it pre or post shutter.
>
> Tracy R. Willis
> www.tracywillis.com
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