he suggests that you cannot "take really great pictures" on a cruise. And
that's because more than one person can take similar pictures there.
Interestingly, I was on a Nat Geo 'expedition' cruise of the Inside Passage
in Alaska 2 years ago - a small ship with only 62 passengers - not your
usual cruise ship - there were probably 45 'photographers' on board - I
phones, P+ Shooters and DSLR users. When we came to something interesting
all but a few of us ran to the closest point of the ship nearest the action,
while myself and 2 or 3 others went to other vantage points to capture the
action. We reviewed our 'best' images in the evenings and you could tell the
images of those who had a different vantage point, while alot of the images
shown were from the popular vantage point.
I've posted a number of my images from the trip and definitely consider the
very good to great.
He aso states 'Of course they looked identical - because we are not
expressive artists when we take pictures' - and that just might describe the
majority of camera phone and P+S users - recording scenes rather than trying
to create their own take on the scene. I realize he was addressing the
instagram crowd but I've seen some very well captured images from I phones
and P+S camera users.
In a world of pretentious and complacent amateur snapping, we are drowning
those moments of truth in an >ocean of the banal.
Agreed!
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor PDML-StR" <[email protected]>
Subject: Photography, art, unintentional plagiarism, ...
Here is an article in The Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/feb/03/instagram-generation-amateur-photographers-art-plagiarism
While the article raises some interesting questions, I disagree with some
of the statements the author makes. E.g. he suggests that you cannot "take
really great pictures" on a cruise. And that's because more than one
person can take similar pictures there.
That's total nonsense!
He also implies that ones there is a view, different photographers are
bound to take similar photo (unlike artists, who are bound to paint
different paintings).
If I were to translate that to a different setting: people will not get
"really great pictures" at GFM, because they all see the same wonderfully
looking views.
I wonder what other PDMLers think about this...
Igor
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