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Aug 28, 2018 12:02:30   #
safeman
 
Weird thoughts come to old people with too much time on their hands.

Should we continue to call ourselves photographers? Photographers record analog images on film, process and print the images creating photographs and if you are a professional sell these little pieces of reality as a source of income. I suggest that we have become collectors and manipulators of electrons. For many, if not most of us, the great majority of our electron collections remain just that--electrons. I sent my last roll of film in for processing and what did I get back, a link to a web site so I could retrieve my electron collections. I have begun thinking of my images stored on my computer as Electron Collections and the prints stored in my photo albums and files as pictures. Electron collections only become images when they are viewed or printed.

Before I change my mind I am going to send this and see what happens

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Aug 28, 2018 12:07:00   #
speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho
 
safeman wrote:
Weird thoughts come to old people with too much time on their hands.

Should we continue to call ourselves photographers? Photographers record analog images on film, process and print the images creating photographs and if you are a professional sell these little pieces of reality as a source of income. I suggest that we have become collectors and manipulators of electrons. For many, if not most of us, the great majority of our electron collections remain just that--electrons. I sent my last roll of film in for processing and what did I get back, a link to a web site so I could retrieve my electron collections. I have begun thinking of my images stored on my computer as Electron Collections and the prints stored in my photo albums and files as pictures. Electron collections only become images when they are viewed or printed.

Before I change my mind I am going to send this and see what happens
Weird thoughts come to old people with too much ti... (show quote)

What do you expect to happen? Everybody has his/her own ways of seeing things in their own way (and that's a good thing)! So, welcome to the crowd!

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Aug 28, 2018 12:07:23   #
ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana
 
I'm afraid that the mind is reacting in a negative way from what you are used to -- that is natural---it is easy to just overlook this phenomenon. And be happy!

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Aug 28, 2018 12:15:51   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
I can relate to having random, strange thoughts, but how about a phrase coined, I believe, by MinnieV:
harvesting pixels.

She used it in reference to taking a photo in poor conditions or other situations where it's unclear whether there might be something worthwhile to edit later on.

For those of us into playful pp, maintaining a substantial crop of pixels is part of the joy of the hobby

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Aug 28, 2018 12:20:42   #
drklrd Loc: Cincinnati Ohio
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
I can relate to having random, strange thoughts, but how about a phrase coined, I believe, by MinnieV:
harvesting pixels.

She used it in reference to taking a photo in poor conditions or other situations where it's unclear whether there might be something worthwhile to edit later on.

For those of us into playful pp, maintaining a substantial crop of pixels is part of the joy of the hobby
I can relate to having random, strange thoughts, b... (show quote)


I like the harvesting of pixels much better than a collection of electrons. To me it seems that is what we really do.

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Aug 28, 2018 12:21:28   #
Charlie'smom
 
Linda From Maine wrote:


“For those of us into playful pp, maintaining a substantial crop of pixels is part of the joy of the hobby


Exactly.

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Aug 28, 2018 12:22:20   #
BebuLamar
 
safeman wrote:
Weird thoughts come to old people with too much time on their hands.

Should we continue to call ourselves photographers? Photographers record analog images on film, process and print the images creating photographs and if you are a professional sell these little pieces of reality as a source of income. I suggest that we have become collectors and manipulators of electrons. For many, if not most of us, the great majority of our electron collections remain just that--electrons. I sent my last roll of film in for processing and what did I get back, a link to a web site so I could retrieve my electron collections. I have begun thinking of my images stored on my computer as Electron Collections and the prints stored in my photo albums and files as pictures. Electron collections only become images when they are viewed or printed.

Before I change my mind I am going to send this and see what happens
Weird thoughts come to old people with too much ti... (show quote)


So you don't have any photographs?

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Aug 28, 2018 12:24:28   #
Soul Dr. Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley
 
I think you need to step into the 21st century.
Film doesn't become a photograph until it is developed.
Sometime in the near future, film will go the way of vcrs and cassette tapes.

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Aug 28, 2018 12:30:26   #
mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
I can relate to having random, strange thoughts, but how about a phrase coined, I believe, by MinnieV:
harvesting pixels.

Any profession or activity can be deconstructed to its lowest level to the point of nonsense. One of my coworkers in architecture used to tell people that his job was "drawing lines on paper".

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Aug 28, 2018 12:32:10   #
rpavich Loc: West Virginia
 
I guess by that definition, I'm a photographer.

At least until I can't do my own processing and printing or it becomes too expensive and I switch to digi...for now....photographer! :)

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Aug 28, 2018 12:33:27   #
Cany143 Loc: SE Utah
 
Your weird thoughts make me feel....... feel.............. feel.............................. electronified!

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Aug 28, 2018 12:33:55   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
mallen1330 wrote:
Any profession or activity can be deconstructed to its lowest level to the point of nonsense. One of my coworkers in architecture used to tell people that his job was "drawing lines on paper".
Sure, but Minnie's point (or maybe I should just say mine as I would hate to be mis-remembering or misquoting) was that we shouldn't not shoot something just because conditions aren't perfect. We might find gemstones from the, um, ah losing the simile I'm afraid At any rate, it's the description of "to harvest" that I liked so much.

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Aug 28, 2018 12:33:58   #
rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA
 
safeman wrote:
Weird thoughts come to old people with too much time on their hands.

Should we continue to call ourselves photographers? Photographers record analog images on film, process and print the images creating photographs and if you are a professional sell these little pieces of reality as a source of income. I suggest that we have become collectors and manipulators of electrons. For many, if not most of us, the great majority of our electron collections remain just that--electrons. I sent my last roll of film in for processing and what did I get back, a link to a web site so I could retrieve my electron collections. I have begun thinking of my images stored on my computer as Electron Collections and the prints stored in my photo albums and files as pictures. Electron collections only become images when they are viewed or printed.

Before I change my mind I am going to send this and see what happens
Weird thoughts come to old people with too much ti... (show quote)


Don't think so much. Get out and take pictures. Everything in life, including you, the dog, the Squirrel outside your window, the Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy and the entire universe is a collection of electrons. Does that make you feel any better?

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Aug 28, 2018 12:39:17   #
tjim Loc: Far Northern California
 
I'm into weird thoughts. Your post is intriguing and challenging but capturing light is capturing light whether electronically or on silver. However the old camera obscura guys who stood in a dark room with a pinhole and traced the image on parchment and then painted it.....were they photographers?

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Aug 28, 2018 12:45:05   #
Silverman Loc: Michigan
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
I can relate to having random, strange thoughts, but how about a phrase coined, I believe, by MinnieV:
harvesting pixels.

She used it in reference to taking a photo in poor conditions or other situations where it's unclear whether there might be something worthwhile to edit later on.

For those of us into playful pp, maintaining a substantial crop of pixels is part of the joy of the hobby
I can relate to having random, strange thoughts, b... (show quote)


Yes, for example, when a Farmer Harvests his Wheat, Corn, or other Crop, he first must "Harvest" his Crop then ususally "Stores-it" in a Barn or other place it will stay safe, then sells it to a Store.
So, Now we as Digital Age Photographer's Produce our Photos, then we Harvest them off of our SD or CF Cards, then we Store them into our Computers where they hopefully be safe and sound until they are needed by ourselves or a potenial customer who pays for our "Crop of Photos".

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