>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

>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.