Hmh........
Ive seen A LOT of press grade DSLR's in the hands of Soccermoms at my daughters sports-meets, Big fat white lenses and all.
Which supports what I was saying.
Hmh........
Ive seen A LOT of press grade DSLR's in the hands of Soccermoms at my daughters sports-meets, Big fat white lenses and all.
What bothers me is that under the title "People are better photographers", it says: "Sheer weight of numbers now means you can have better photos. If you're aiming to have five good pictures at an event and you take 240 instead of 24, your chances are better."
So, apparently, taking good pictures is a matter of chances, not of skill ...
OTOH, at the start of the article, it says (about the photographer in Berlin 1939): " In the end, out of the eight plates he got four award-winning photos.".
Do you think those "better photographers" get a ratio of 1 to 2 award-winning photos ? Or even 4 out of those 240 ?
Stefan.
So, apparently, taking good pictures is a matter of chances, not of skill ...
Right, because the large majority of regular people used those cameras.
... Of course I am not talking about serious photographers but just average phone or digicam users. Esthetics have definitely changed, to the worse imo.
To some extent, this has always been true. The chance of being there, the chance of something happening, the chance of the light being there, etc..
Robert Frank shot, as I understand it, ~500 rolls of film over the course of his Guggenheim fellowship that became the Americans. That's 18000 exposures.
To some extent, this has always been true. The chance of being there, the chance of something happening, the chance of the light being there, etc..
Robert Frank shot, as I understand it, ~500 rolls of film over the course of his Guggenheim fellowship that became the Americans. That's 18000 exposures.
Yes, I know, but still, for my own pictures, I find the best ones are nearly always the ones I had to "work" for.
What bothers me is that it seems to become the "norm": just shoot as much as you can and there will be a good one in there ...
Stefan.