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This is developing into a very good thread and an intersesting question is starting to develop i.e
" What is a good Photograph"
I suggest everyone sits back and actually asks themselves that question.
One of the greatest photographers ever to have lived was Ansel Adams. Yet nowadays every Tom, Dick or Harry produces stunning landsacapes. If you produce an identical photograph to one that Ansel Adams took does that mean you have produced a fantastic photograph or does the issue that to produce an Adams photograph has now become commonplace reduce them all to mere shots rather than stunning photographs?
Obviously they appeal to people and obviously they're a successful business--that doesn't change the fact that their photography is generally poor. It just demonstrates that the quality of photography is a far, far distant second to business skills when it comes to making a high street photography business whose main aim is massive volume. Which is obvious of course, but that doesn't make it any less palatable.
I am really surprised to hear a university student come out with such a comment. I have done my homework here and looked at your portfolios and I can tell you that as a 17 year old staff photographer on a local newspaper I was producing photographs that yours remind me. Tell me what you are doing to advance photography to new levels that I wasn't 30 years ago and to be frank my seniors had been doing 30 years before that.
All my working life I have heard photographers rubbishing others and I have always hated it. Fifteen years ago I wondered why I was struggling with a Hasselblad and three lenses and 12 shot rolls of film when I could shoot on 35mm and get better candid shots. My peers told me that what I was producing was rubbish because they did not have the quality of the Hassel (yes thas what it was a hassle lol) and yet my customers loved them and bought them - who was producing the best photographs I wonder and what do wedding photographer all tend to do these days?
Ten years ago I spent 20K on some stupid didital thing and again I remember standing in the queue at the photo wholeseller and listening to two characters saying that digital would never catch on - I wonder if they would admit to that conversation now!!!
I happen to like Venture style. Its different, its modern, you look at it twice, actually you keep looking at it. They are trying to advance photography in a world where everyone seems to have a camera. I can remember the days where I was seen as a magician because I could supply a sharp, clear photograph. Those days are long gone.
stew
This is developing into a very good thread and an intersesting question is starting to develop i.e
" What is a good Photograph"
I suggest everyone sits back and actually asks themselves that question.
One of the greatest photographers ever to have lived was Ansel Adams. Yet nowadays every Tom, Dick or Harry produces stunning landsacapes. If you produce an identical photograph to one that Ansel Adams took does that mean you have produced a fantastic photograph or does the issue that to produce an Adams photograph has now become commonplace reduce them all to mere shots rather than stunning photographs?
Obviously they appeal to people and obviously they're a successful business--that doesn't change the fact that their photography is generally poor. It just demonstrates that the quality of photography is a far, far distant second to business skills when it comes to making a high street photography business whose main aim is massive volume. Which is obvious of course, but that doesn't make it any less palatable.
I am really surprised to hear a university student come out with such a comment. I have done my homework here and looked at your portfolios and I can tell you that as a 17 year old staff photographer on a local newspaper I was producing photographs that yours remind me. Tell me what you are doing to advance photography to new levels that I wasn't 30 years ago and to be frank my seniors had been doing 30 years before that.
All my working life I have heard photographers rubbishing others and I have always hated it. Fifteen years ago I wondered why I was struggling with a Hasselblad and three lenses and 12 shot rolls of film when I could shoot on 35mm and get better candid shots. My peers told me that what I was producing was rubbish because they did not have the quality of the Hassel (yes thas what it was a hassle lol) and yet my customers loved them and bought them - who was producing the best photographs I wonder and what do wedding photographer all tend to do these days?
Ten years ago I spent 20K on some stupid didital thing and again I remember standing in the queue at the photo wholeseller and listening to two characters saying that digital would never catch on - I wonder if they would admit to that conversation now!!!
I happen to like Venture style. Its different, its modern, you look at it twice, actually you keep looking at it. They are trying to advance photography in a world where everyone seems to have a camera. I can remember the days where I was seen as a magician because I could supply a sharp, clear photograph. Those days are long gone.
stew
