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Surely half of it is the fact that a) it's a motivational poster and b) it's been done about a million times before?
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:thumbup: or even: :hail:mysteryscribe said:1860 comment by watercolorist... the Fkn camera thingie is a flash in the pan....
1910... comment by portrait painter... woe is me that Eastman thing is going to fix it so we never sell another painting. It is just matter of time...
1940... Comment by 4x5 graflex photographer... mark my words the 120 camera will put an end to photography as a business, anyone will be able to have one. If any idiot can shoot ten shots he will get one good one. It is the end of serious photography.
1960... comment by 120 photographer... Damn 35mm will kill us all. If they ever get the film right it will mean any idiot can go out and shoot 200 shots of his friend's wedding and we will be out of business, mark my words. That's not to mention the idot Land's toy camera putting all the labs out of business.
1999... Comment by the ghost of them all in a huddle.... Okay we were wrong before but by god digital cameras will mark the end of all other forms of art. We just don't need anything else. Any piece of crap anyone shoots can be fixed in the software.
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The only problem is art and artistry has always been about what you shoot, or what you paint, more than what kind of brush or camera you did it with. You can't sell that as a camera accessory and sometimes you can't even teach it. I would made a pretty good guess that the number of successful "art" photographers is much less then the number of people who graduate from the Schools teaching you how to be an artist.
And art school drop outs arent the only ones pretending to be artists. In the end "THE WORK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF". When the piece hits it's home, on someone's wall or in a museum even, I have never seen a label that tells what camera, what fstop, what brush, what paper, or how the artist held his brush...
listen up I'll say it again.... THE WORK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.....
Sometimes it is more about marketing than the work and that is sad. A painter in this area comes to mind. They say he is a great draftsman, but not a real artist. I tend to agree because I to would like to make the money he makes and therefore I too am envious. It might not be art but it hangs in might fancy places, and he might wrongly consider himself an artist, but he doesn't worry about paying his car payment next month.
One last thing on a personal note.... If Art were about perfection, there would be about zero pieces made previous to today. I see an awful lot of digital photography these days and you know what. I can usually tell that it is because there is so much perfection. Don't cha think that this kind of cookie cutter perfection will tend to get boring after a while. There are about a thousand ways to process an image that is well composed and well executed even with digital. The old house on the beach that we all played with comes to mind. But a piece of crap no matter how you wrap it still smells after a while. To a real artist the media never made a heck of a lot of difference and to us hacks it didn't either. So digital in the end isn't going to change a thing but the way people do what they always did.
You see it, you shoot (compose) it, you process it, and then it is an orphan and has to stand on it's own.
leave Edwin out of it, damn you!That's not to mention the idot Land's toy camera putting all the labs out of business.
mysteryscribe said:damnit james there is no such thing as the nude being over done. Jeeze have you learning nothing rofl.
Sunset ect okay, but not nudes....
mysteryscribe said:damnit james there is no such thing as the nude being over done. Jeeze have you learning nothing rofl.
Sunset ect okay, but not nudes....
JohnMF said:Yes but what about a nude dolphin in front of a sunset????
Archangel said:i meant like a 2 year foundation collage course....