billions of photos uploaded daily

[bvy]

it's all got to do,with the Truman show, everyone wants to be in it, everyone
wants their 15 mins I mean 15 sec of fame.
I'm not on fb, haven't been for maybe 5 maybe 7 years so I don't see most of the
rubbish people complain about. as for your kids or people in general taking pictures ..
who cares .. it doesn't seem like they are hurting anyone with their self love .

Who cares indeed. I love to see what inspires them. It's the reason I'm on social media at all.

 

[michr]

I think a lot of us seem to turn every photo that we take into the worlds greatest photograph and tend to think that our shit doesn't stink when it comes to photography, where's in reality for the remainder of the world, photography is simply a way to capture moments in time - dare I say, snapshots even. If you don't want to look at the snapshots, then don't. Its really quite easy.

This forum is really turning into "Grumpy Old Men"....

hear hear.

Visiting APUG is a bit of a guilty indulgence, there's some gems buried in these pages. Increasingly, there's so much whining about the glory days on this site, and so much bile and exceptionalism, that I would never recommend anyone else use this site, or have my name associated with it. Ultimately, it's just not much fun to try to have a sincere conversation about photography while having to pussy-foot around the word "digital" like it's this forum's own Voldemort.

Let's be honest with ourselves. Reams and reams of junk got printed during the first 150 years of photography. It's easy to look back and pick out the classics, the same as it is with music.

The fact is, digital photography has been an absolute, unmitigated boon to photography, both for the discipline and for the general public. For the average person, the era of cropped heads and dark and blurry indoor family photographs is over, never to return. A professional can get immediate feedback, in the studio or the field, and react accordingly.

The easy job of photography, the mechanical part, has been de-skilled, like machines have been doing since the industrial era. I believe, that photographers, to remain distinct and relevant, must concentrate on the human component of photography -- the part that overlaps with philosophy and art and sociology and emotion.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Remember that Kodak was built and paid for by many crappy photographs taken by cheap cameras.

 

[RobC]

For some reason, this whole idea of "billions of photos uploaded daily" gets on my nerves. I wrote the following in another post, but thought I would post a thread about this idea.

For me, the idea of billions of photos is one of these "geez whiz, isn't technology amazing" ideas that people trot out to confound one another.

An additional point is that photography is just a tool for communication, like writing. Billions of posts and trillions of words are written daily, but we still have the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books going strong celebrating great writing.

If it gets on your nerves, you need to address one or two possibilities. Either your nerves need sorting out in which case you should seek medical advice or you should get a life or you should just ignore it which is probably the best course of action.
The problem with the internet is that it provides the ability to gaze up everyone elses arsehole and if doing that bothers you then don't do it. Just because that is what social media is all about doesn't mean you have to dive in. I call it the the "social cesspit". If you dive in and wallow in the shit then do not expect it to smell like roses.

 

[Sirius Glass]

 

[bobwysiwyg]

Did it?

Not as far as I know.

 

[FujiLove]

I think you are all full of BS.

The fact that so many people can communicate with their images (photographs or pictures??) is amazing. It has quite literally changed our world and will continue to do so.

I do not know where this will take us, but we are all along for the ride whether we like it or not. Every now and then I cruise Flikr for images associated with certain topics. Not because I think that what I see is so wonderful, but having so many ideas on how people look at a given topic is great. It never fails to motivate me and give me some great ideas on how to approach composition.

Sure, there may be 1,000 or more images of yellow roses that are taken from the same perspective and with almost identical lighting. But even that is instructive. How many times have I photographed things using the same boring approach and composition. Maybe I need to take my next flower picture on my back looking at the sky!!

This is photography for a billion people. They are not trying to be pros. They are not trying to sell 20x30 framed photographs in a gallery. They are sharing and communicating with each other. They have no intention to hurt you. To be honest, I doubt that the great majority even care whether you or I like it or not.

Completely agree.

All those billions of people seem to be having fun taking and sharing those billions of photos, so that's fine with me. And the way I see it: the more they fiddle around with their stupid 'film simulator' apps, the more likely it is that they will one day pick up a real film camera and maybe keep our niche hobby viable for another year.

 

[Truzi]

Considering the direction of this thread, how do the numbers compare per capita?

 

[uniondale]

Well, I just found this. Maybe why people make such a big deal about the number of images uploaded a day is because it is a new phenomenon. It's really exploded in the past few years!

 

[hoffy]

That's a bucket load of amateur porn being uploaded every day....which is intended to be shared amongst people who know each other.

Still failing to see any issues here (apart from the fact that its become normal to send pictures of yourself nakkid over the internet).

 

[Rook]

One must put all of this into proper perspective. A great bulk of those billions of images have specific industry-related purposes, rather than casual, private intentions and uses. Photo identification cards. From surveillance cameras. For medical imaging, such as x-rays, recordings of tissue samples, etc. All these images are uploaded to some server. And many images are sent every day from one server to another, transferred from one hard drive to another... I'm not sure if each action is counted as a new "upload".

 

[blockend]

Well, I just found this. Maybe why people make such a big deal about the number of images uploaded a day is because it is a new phenomenon. It's really exploded in the past few years![/QUOTE]
I've never heard of the major players on that chart, Snapchat and WhatsApp, and only have a Flickr account which barely registers as a colour. I'm inclined towards the [I]if it isn't a print it doesn't exist[/I], position.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I've never heard of the major players on that chart, Snapchat and WhatsApp, and only have a Flickr account which barely registers as a colour. I'm inclined towards the if it isn't a print it doesn't exist, position.

There is no other position. Things are black & white, there is no gray nor is there grey.