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Photography isn't art, all you're doing is pointing a box someone else made and clicking a button and capturing ambient light. You're not making an effort. You'

Photography isn't art, all you're doing is pointing a box someone else made and clicking a button and capturing ambient light. You're not making an effort. You're just pretending you did. And now I bet you're immediately thinking of arguments about all the time you've invested in developing an eye for composition and a sense of when that precise interesting moment is about to happen and all the darkroom techniques and film speeds and ISOs and and and... now you know how I feel about what you just said. ---- This argument against digital work was old back in 2003 when I was having it on Deviantart's forums. I've been drawing regularly for a half a century; it's been my day job for half that and I have many clients who are absolutely delighted to pay me to use my skills to interpret their ideas in my own unique way. They'll have an idea and come to me in particular because they think I will knock it out of the park, and usually their responses to the final work indicates I did. I get similar sentiments from my fans on my personal work. But hey, think whatever makes you feel good about where your own craft is going, sweetheart.

southernplaces7 1y ago
>Photography isn't art, all you're doing is pointing a box someone else made and clicking a button and capturing ambient light. First, fair counterpoint to my dismissive comment. I was referring more to an aesthetic notion of digital art creating a cheapening effect by being too perfect compared to things like the manually air brushed works in the original link. That's just an aesthetic preference though. You making the effort at creating your digital works shouldn't be dismissed as cheap or as not being art though. It's an effort of its own, but through a different medium, so, sorry if it came across wrong. With that said, in case you were being serious in what you said about photography, I invite you to go look a the photography of recognized masters of its practice, and consider the effort many of them have made to perfect their compositions, their eye for an interesting shot, capturing those shots (often at considerable personal risk of harm) and the patience they needed for both, and then compare that to the vast reams of photos by most people, and then tell me again that there's no art to it. If you claim it requires no effort, then you haven't done it to any worthwhile degree and hae no clue about what you're saying.

southernplaces7 1y ago

>Photography isn't art, all you're doing is pointing a box someone else made and clicking a button and capturing ambient light. First, fair counterpoint to my dismissive comment. I was referring more to an aesthetic notion of digital art creating a cheapening effect by being too perfect compared to things like the manually air brushed works in the original link. That's just an aesthetic preference though. You making the effort at creating your digital works shouldn't be dismissed as cheap or as not being art though. It's an effort of its own, but through a different medium, so, sorry if it came across wrong. With that said, in case you were being serious in what you said about photography, I invite you to go look a the photography of recognized masters of its practice, and consider the effort many of them have made to perfect their compositions, their eye for an interesting shot, capturing those shots (often at considerable personal risk of harm) and the patience they needed for both, and then compare that to the vast reams of photos by most people, and then tell me again that there's no art to it. If you claim it requires no effort, then you haven't done it to any worthwhile degree and hae no clue about what you're saying.