Rant @ IA photogs

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I disagree. With the advent of the auto-focusing DSLR camera, even Joe-the-Plumber's grandma can flip the dial all the way to full automatic and take high quality, high resolution photos. Composition is subjective, and very much a matter of taste... but a 'consumer' DSLR camera will do well in automatic mode for 90% of the situations people will take photos in.

Its not like years ago when you had to buy a high quality body, high quality film, a high quality lens *and* learn how to adjust the aperture for the ISO of the film and gauge the shutter speed for the exposure..... and after all that was done, you still had to rewind the film then take it to a good developer. All that stuff took time, effort, money, and know-how.

Nowadays, $500 will get you an entry level camera that takes better photos than top-of-the-line slr cameras from 15 years ago... and all you need is a computer to look at them. Its easy to become a decent photographer today. Just take a butt-ton of photos until you figure out what works and what doesn't. Todays cameras do 95% of the work for you. Just aim it and press the button.

I could teach a chimpanzee to shoot for a magazine (if I had enough bananas).

High quality photography has come to the masses. The same thing happened to the internet. When I started school, only the geekiest people had even ever heard of email, and only the UBER-NERDS were on the internet before AOL (try BBSs, Prodigy, and CompuServe).... and only the KINGS of the UBER-NERDS knew how to create web pages with HTML/PERL

Nowadays everyone and their freakin cat has a facebook with a gazillion pictures and multiple email/IM accounts. People will laugh in your face if you try to get a web design position without knowing HTML, Flash, PERL, Javascript, PHP, SQL and VBasic.

I disagree. With the advent of the auto-focusing DSLR camera, even Joe-the-Plumber's grandma can flip the dial all the way to full automatic and take high quality, high resolution photos. Composition is subjective, and very much a matter of taste... but a 'consumer' DSLR camera will do well in automatic mode for 90% of the situations people will take photos in.

True.

not like years ago when you had to buy a high quality body, high quality film, a high quality lens *and* learn how to adjust the aperture for the ISO of the film and gauge the shutter speed for the exposure..... and after all that was done, you still had to rewind the film then take it to a good developer. All that stuff took time, effort, money, and know-how

I'll give you that one too.I still rock a medium/format camera that takes Polaroids /Fuji 4x5 sheet film which has to be uploaded in total darkness. and to use the camera, gotta have know your stuff..Film is very very VERY unforgiving. And its only getting more expensive..i met up with a dude months back and was boasting how he was this professional. I tossed him my Canon A1-E and he looked at it like a closed waffle house. every shot he took came out FUCKED up.

easy to become a decent photographer today. Just take a butt-ton of photos until you figure out what works and what doesn't. Todays cameras do 95% of the work for you. Just aim it and press the button.

True and true to an extent
everyone IA member and their grandma like u say is a photographer.(well, honestly, just fuckers that take pictures) Don't get me wrong, its great you want to learn and dig deep into it, but how dare you take that name when a good number of people don't even know how their camera truly fucking works.And whats funny to me most is, that these people dont understand that in the real world, your work can get YOU and your art director fired if its not up to their liking netherless if you don't know what the hell your doing..Unless your client doesn't have a eye to judge shit( like many members yelling sweet pic bro on here)

it's an insult to those really doing this grind on the daily.

Camera's do the work. true..all ya gotta do is push the button..FOr those that actually take photos, not pictures, its a lot more..Setting everything..differents in stops for your subjects, speed..correct exposure..and thats just the camera..and if your messing with lighthing, which will make or break your pic, its whole another world.. I've spent countless hours on getting my lighting and equipment set up, just to push that button like u say..

i could teach a chimpanzee to shoot for a magazine (if I had enough bananas)

Really? If you can teach a chimp to do a fashion shot like these, i'll give you all my cameras. And this more than just pushing a button