"oh god it all looks the same", the identical nature of photography

[pocketcamera]

Is commonly heard in the world these days. Normally by people with SOME experience in the actual fields of taking photographs for paying customers. Quite often, its a statement and an insult espoused by the ones doing the writing of "how to" books for photography and the writing of general how to/what to do articles on the internet.

Its the most common problem. Its all looking identical and yet no one can seem to understand the reason why. Its in how people learn photography now. yeah, the people doing the teaching are the ones messing it up.

When you first go online looking for photography tips, you get articles from small online magazines and blogs by "writing photographers" who have published small how to books online. They all push the new person into buying one of the various "how to pose a model book" and make their amazon book sale.

But the problem is, you have thousands of people buying the same book of poses, and no one understands that you could simply overlay most of the poses onto each other and make an instant copy.

So should we really be getting the photography books or not? Sure some are good, some not. The little book of black and white has excellent section on telling if a negative is good or bad and the reason why, but everythign else is verbotem from cheap slr manuals circa 1989

 

[Space Face]

Been doing photography since the mid 80's, first film and now digital and think I've owned maybe 3 photography instruction books in that time.

 

[Ysarex]

Is commonly heard in the world these days. Normally by people with SOME experience in the actual fields of taking photographs for paying customers. Quite often, its a statement and an insult espoused by the ones doing the writing of "how to" books for photography and the writing of general how to/what to do articles on the internet.

Its the most common problem. Its all looking identical and yet no one can seem to understand the reason why. Its in how people learn photography now. yeah, the people doing the teaching are the ones messing it up.

When you first go online looking for photography tips, you get articles from small online magazines and blogs by "writing photographers" who have published small how to books online. They all push the new person into buying one of the various "how to pose a model book" and make their amazon book sale.

But the problem is, you have thousands of people buying the same book of poses, and no one understands that you could simply overlay most of the poses onto each other and make an instant copy.

So should we really be getting the photography books or not? Sure some are good, some not. The little book of black and white has excellent section on telling if a negative is good or bad and the reason why, but everythign else is verbotem from cheap slr manuals circa 1989

Rubbish troll bait.
Joe

 

[terri]

Is commonly heard in the world these days. Normally by people with SOME experience in the actual fields of taking photographs for paying customers. Quite often, its a statement and an insult espoused by the ones doing the writing of "how to" books for photography and the writing of general how to/what to do articles on the internet.

Its the most common problem. Its all looking identical and yet no one can seem to understand the reason why. Its in how people learn photography now. yeah, the people doing the teaching are the ones messing it up.

When you first go online looking for photography tips, you get articles from small online magazines and blogs by "writing photographers" who have published small how to books online. They all push the new person into buying one of the various "how to pose a model book" and make their amazon book sale.

But the problem is, you have thousands of people buying the same book of poses, and no one understands that you could simply overlay most of the poses onto each other and make an instant copy.

So should we really be getting the photography books or not? Sure some are good, some not. The little book of black and white has excellent section on telling if a negative is good or bad and the reason why, but everythign else is verbotem from cheap slr manuals circa 1989

Rubbish troll bait.
Joe

It was a previously banned member here, who posted this way. He's now been re-banned.