Perhaps. But I'm not overly interested in what my audience thinks.
... But go out and take a great picture, make 2 identical exposures and go back to the darkroom and do your best print. Then take the other neg and put it on the floor and grind it with your foot. Then print it, distress it, tint it and show it to your friends. I bet they will rave over the distressed one.
Have you ever clicked and pushed the slider just a little bit too far ...
Have you ever clicked and pushed the slider just a little bit too far, then pulled it back because you didn't like the result, regardless of what you thought anyone else in the world might like?
In doing so your are still showing an interest in what your target audience thinks.
Ken
What is this... "slider" object? Is it a tong? Or, does it sit below the enlarger lens? :- )
My target audience is me. I make what I want...
Now after you've cleaned your digital camera's lens, perfectly retouched every pore and removed every wrinkle, use this new software.
http://petapixel.com/2015/03/12/len...-focus-glass-to-your-photographs/#more-160723
Isn't it ironic?
Who is more tired of technically perfect photography, photographers or people who merely enjoy looking at photography? Makers of photographic art or the buyers of photographic art? There is a great element of boredom with clean clear crisp photography. I think the boredom is greatest with the photographers themselves. As a photographer you can aspire to technical perfection and have the finest gear and obsessively perfected technique yet the final product is still boring and redundant or cliche' at best. I think it is the photographer who decides to use serendipity as an element, with technique out of control, sloppy imperfect "alternative" process, developers with limitations, plastic (toy) cameras, and anything that takes control of image quality out of control. Then the photographer can escape the need for the absolute responsibility for every aspect and every square mm of his print. Because if he is to take absolute responsibility for everything about it, it is the photographer him/herself who is boring.
Dennis
It's a chair thing. People won't get out of them. Read a digital forum and you'll find photographers with decades of experience who will only manipulate digitally now. It's not the kids, who are much more likely to pick up a film camera, it's the old guys who sold off their SLRs and darkroom and would go to the gates of hell before they'll use another roll.
It's as though the admission digital wasn't the be all and end all of photography would throw their entire world into a spin. These people know how to develop a negative and make a print, but that was then and this is now, damn it. It's about progress, and if progress means an app for crap, that's the way forward boys.
Who is more tired of technically perfect photography, photographers or people who merely enjoy looking at photography? Makers of photographic art or the buyers of photographic art? There is a great element of boredom with clean clear crisp photography. I think the boredom is greatest with the photographers themselves. As a photographer you can aspire to technical perfection and have the finest gear and obsessively perfected technique yet the final product is still boring and redundant or cliche' at best. I think it is the photographer who decides to use serendipity as an element, with technique out of control, sloppy imperfect "alternative" process, developers with limitations, plastic (toy) cameras, and anything that takes control of image quality out of control. Then the photographer can escape the need for the absolute responsibility for every aspect and every square mm of his print. Because if he is to take absolute responsibility for everything about it, it is the photographer him/herself who is boring.
Dennis
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