I have seen exactly that in both my own children's shooting habits and my wedding/portrait work. I'm seeing less and less print ordering, but lots of web galleries or computer based slideshows.
The digital angle makes this much easier, as the natural medium for it is a computer monitor. The cost to produce and view the image is pretty small that way compared to having to print it out. Also, you can easily share with people who are not immediately in the vicinity. Think of web galleries and email. -- Bruce Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 1:11:21 PM, you wrote: pcn> Well put. pcn> Paul pcn> -------------- Original message ---------------------- pcn> From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> There's nothing wrong with that logic because, odd as it may seem to >> old 20th-century farts like you and me, the print is no longer the >> preferred medium for viewing photographs, at least for most people. >> >> As the transition from film to digital was taking place it was widely >> noted in the trade publications that the number of prints being made >> from film was plummeting. The number of digital prints being made was >> rising... but not nearly enough to make up for the decline in film >> prints. >> >> What's been happening is people more and more thinking of a computer >> monitor as the "normal" way of viewing photographs. A print is >> something you settle for when you're forced to - like when you have to >> carry some around to show people where there's no computer available. >> The kids of today will grow up considering the print to be an optional >> extra. Indeed, they seem to be doing so already. >> >> Recently, I had thought that came out of the blue so unexpectedly it >> really startled me: They're *right* in their preference! >> >> I've always preferred projected slides to prints: An additive, RGB >> image always looks brighter, more vibrant than a reflective, >> subtractive CMYK image. It's more appropriate to the way we see. An >> image on a monitor is an additive, RGB image, like a slide. In the past >> this viewing medium has been at a disadvantage because of limited >> contrast, limited resolution, limited size and great expense. But >> monitors are getting bigger, better and cheaper all the time and the >> trend isn't going to stop soon (2000 x 5000 monitor resolution is >> expected to become common within a few years). >> >> Personally, I *love* good prints. I love making good prints and viewing >> them. But I'm the kind of intellectual geek who visits art galleries >> and spends time thinking about... well, things like this. This means >> I'm in a minority far separated from the average snapshooter who drives >> the industry. And the only time I make a print is when it's going to be >> 8 x 12 or larger. >> >> I think the print is almost dead as the default product of the average >> snapshooter and it's becoming more of a special item. But I've come to >> think that this isn't necessarily a bad thing. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >> the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
