Photography vs. the camera
Dec 2, 2017 17:23:03 #
cytafex
Loc: Clarksburg MA
CatMarley wrote:
More time is spent with computer editing than actually holding a camera. Actually taking the picture was never the enjoyment aspect. The finished product - having it, looking at it, sharing it, showing it off, posting it, publishing it, - all much more enjoyable than taking it. That was over in a fraction of a second.
My favorite part is being out there, wind in my face in a wild place surrounded by Nature. Some of my exposures have been up to 8 hours so there was lots of time to have fun! New Years Eve 1989, 8 hour plus time exposure at night at Potato Bottom along the White Rim Trail Canyonlands NP. I was solo and had a little party for myself and ended up eating the worm. Woke up to find my camera next to me in the tent in the morning and I had shut down the camera and that made me happy!
Dec 2, 2017 18:12:05 #
I used large format 4x5"cameras for 25 years. Today I still use the same basic techniques. My only frustration with new cameras is that I can shot more images on a trip but I still end up with the same amount of good ones.
Dec 2, 2017 18:19:50 #
Dec 2, 2017 18:41:11 #
The camera and art go together. Just reverse your thoughts and think of digital as the first cameras. What the masters did then would still be called art, would it not? Manual or Auto it is up to you to use as you so desire. Art is up to what you wa nt it to be. True most people take snaps unless then put their skills to work. Then there is no end to what they can accomplish. Happy shooting.
Dec 2, 2017 18:59:39 #
Yankeepapa6
Loc: New York City
Acountry330 wrote:
The camera and art go together. Just reverse your thoughts and think of digital as the first cameras. What the masters did then would still be called art, would it not? Manual or Auto it is up to you to use as you so desire. Art is up to what you wa nt it to be. True most people take snaps unless then put their skills to work. Then there is no end to what they can accomplish. Happy shooting.
Perhaps you should reverse your thoughts. A camera is a camera. No matter what mode you employ. It takes pictures nothing more.
Dec 2, 2017 19:00:17 #
Exactly why I posted this some years ago. Why I do photography.
--Bob
--Bob
one shot wrote:
And that's why I love photography! If I only could, I would love to do pen and ink sketching.
Dec 2, 2017 19:03:17 #
Yankeepapa6
Loc: New York City
rmalarz wrote:
Exactly why I posted this some years ago. Why I do photography.
--Bob
--Bob
Dec 2, 2017 19:13:58 #
The primitive drawing has more life than the static photograph ......keep drawing you'll get there yet ....
Dec 2, 2017 19:38:27 #
I always regard all the bells & whistles of modern digital cameras as suggestions for when I am in doubt. Scene selection, framing and composition are what is important.
Dec 2, 2017 20:43:42 #
Shooting with film is more fun now that it's a choice. But I appreciate people who shoot only digital. They save so much silver.
Dec 2, 2017 21:01:57 #
Don's Leica
Loc: Asheville, NC
I have had several favorite Leica cameras over the years. My first digital Leica was a Digilux 2, which I still own, and may be my all-time favorite, because it is so easy to use. After that, I was impressed by the increased performance of newer digitals, although the owners manuals have become harder and harder for me to understand and employ easily. I have almost given up on making changes in the camera's settings, and take pictures based on my artistic desires, and adjust them on the computer in Adobe Camera Raw.
Dec 2, 2017 21:08:19 #
Dec 2, 2017 21:17:18 #
I started years ago with film. Now I do not own any film cameras. my digital SLRs are not elegant like my Pentax MX, but I would not go back. With film, I learned the basics, metering for exposure, using the depth-of-field scale on the lens, manually setting the aperature, shutter speed, and film speed (then known as ASA). Now I use multi-segmented metering, aperature priority, or shutter priority. I can adjust my ISO as the situation calls for it without having to change to a different roll of film. I do not feel like I am any less creative, or artistic. Now I feel like I have more options to employ in the process of creating an image.
Dec 2, 2017 21:23:32 #
Respectfully disagree: The craft of photography may rise to art in the right hands.
Ariel wrote:
Photography has yet to reach the status of an art ... (show quote)
Dec 2, 2017 21:25:45 #
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