rain # 23 ~ avoiding the tidal wave
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 12:43PM ;)
Au Sable Motors ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenOn yesterday's entry, a question, John Linn
You wrote..." picture makers have, literally and figuratively, "opened their eyes" and are engaged with the act of seeing, many on a daily basis."
I have not seen that. I see crappy photos of people holding beer glasses or mugging the camera. And even shots that have promise are technically so bad, even those made by people who should know better and have the skills to do better.
So you are saying the Facebook photographers are "seeing"?
my response: In the category of "more and more avid amateur picture makers ... have, literally and figuratively, "opened their eyes" and are engaged with the act of seeing", I most definitely was not including those in social media crowd - Facebook, Instagram, Flickr (some good work can be found there if one is willing to wade through a sea of crap), ad nauseum. In that respect, I agree with John and his "crappy photos" assessment.
However, there is ample online evidence that there is a rather large number of avid amateur pictures who do indeed have their eyes open and are actively engaged in the act of seeing. To view this evidence, one needs to breakout of the social media loop and get into the online photography magazine arena which also spreads its tentacles to a host of related sites (mainly to those of picture makers).
As an example, check out the photographer listings on URBANAUTICA. You could spend a year full of a month of Sundays trying to get through that list and all of the related links. And, URBANAUTICA is just one of a sea of such sites.
In any event, now that "everyone's a photographer", the amount of crappy pictures being made has reached tsunami proportions. My advice? You need to get to higher ground ASAP.
Reader Comments (2)
Somehow I am just as fed up with the "fine art" look as I am of the "neon look" (over-saturated/HDR'd/photoshopped avid amateur photography).
As you've touched upon before, viewing photography on the Internet is dangerous business as you can easily get drowned by the "everyone's a photographer tsunami".
There is definetly too much of a good thing when it comes to pictures.
That said, your images definetly have a unique style that sets them apart from most things out there. A prettty monumental achievement if you ask me.