I have been taking photographs for more than 25 years; I have seen the "glory" days of 35mm film single-lens-reflex cameras, the rise and fall of the autofocus 35mm SLR, the stupidity of the APS format that was soon eclipsed by primitive digital imaging, now the all-out digital revolution where everyone owns a camera........
Through it all, I hope I have been able to improve my photography skills.
My ranting and raving boils down to the fact that everyone now feels they are a photographer simply because they have a camera of some sort, whether it be in a cell phone (yuck!) or the now-turned-pro-photographer who just bought a bling-blng digital SLR system and is advertising weddings.
Can any of these star-struck individuals actually take pictures? Do they care? Do they even know what a good photo is? Don't they realize the wedding photos they snap (and invariably end up on FaceBook) are total cap?
Yes, my beef is that this day and age is the "do-it-all-yourself" generation where society no longer recognizes the specialist in a field, and they certainly don't want to pay him or her for their talents. We don't need you to shoot our wedding, we have a friend with a new DSLR who will do it for FREE. We can sell our own house, thank you very much Mr. Realtor.
Yes, we all can now buy baby grand pianos and are suddenly concert pianists. Best of all, we can distribute our music for FREE since nobody wants to pay for CD's any more, just crappy 128 kbps downloads into our equally-crappy iPods. That's all we need. Life is good!
This blog will, hopefully, demonstrate that photography is something that actually requires SKILL. I hope to also include the odd link to useful Websites that will help people better appreciate the craft and improve your talent as a shooter. I am also open to having good images sent to me for display on a real photographer's blog.
Cheers.
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