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It seems to me good photography is less about technical skill and more about curation skill.
by maxklein 16y ago
It seems to me good photography is less about technical skill and more about curation skill.
- hartror 16y agoI have a couple of pro photography friends who lament the advent of consumer digital photography. The combination of photoshop and free shots means less people are making the effort to learn the art and science behind good photos.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoI have to disagree. By my observation a lot more people are more interested in photography than there have been, due to high quality digital photography equipment at reasonable costs. And while some of them are very much "spam the shutter and see what pans out" talentless hacks, quite a few of them take the time to hone and expand their skills (behind the lens and in the "darkroom"). On the whole I think this leads to the creation of a greater number of talented and skilled photographers, though of course it also balloons the numbers of untalented photographers as well.
- eftpotrm 16y agoI'm with you. I loved and was fascinated by photography from a young age, but it was intimidatingly slow and expensive to experiment on film. Going digital let me do what I'd wanted to for years, the hobby ballooned and my skills went through the roof.
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- lwhi 16y agoPhotography involves capturing a moment or period of time, visually. Technical skill can affect the way that moment is represented - but there'll always be an element of serendipity involved in taking a good shot. Even so, this doesn't detract from the fact that someone who has invested time in the art of photography is going to be able to take more interesting and more notable photographs. I.e. The ratio of interesting:non-interesting shots, will be larger.
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