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Those who take and those who make


Well said...........surely there can't be any more parsing of the OP. I vote the thread ends on that one.
 
We obviously won't understand one another because no one pays attention to what anyone else means. This isn't a discussion, it's a string of soliloquies.
 
Oh, I think we do a decent job. One just should resist equating understanding with agreement.
 
I hope I'm a maker. Wasn't it Adams who said: "You don't take a photograph, you make it"?

When we retired, we moved into a house without a suitable place for a darkroom, but I had pretty much taken up digital photography almost exclusively by that time anyway. The last thing I wanted to do was just pop out jpeg after jpeg and put them into Flickr or something, so I got deeply involved with Photoshop and image editing early on. I still try to get the best shot I can, but I shoot only raw files, and the way the final image looks is up to me.
 
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Record? I thought these days every photo was "captured."
 

Dunno. I mainly work with other people's photos and films now. Health is poor and can't pound the pavement doing street photography any longer. I'm still shooting, but it is with a copy stand or even a flatbed scanner. Other times it is with a screen recorder. I've probably shot 60K- 80K screenshots in the last decade. I also work with audio, VHS and Beta.

I especially love cine' film, but scanning is the issue. Still saving up and buying lotto tickets! Cine' scanners are not cheap. Duplicate set of shelves behind this with films.



Eventually this will be M-R films. Have many thousand 16mm films. Fantastic time capsules of history!
 

Wow, may I ask where you got all those films? And do you work in a film studio?
 
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Very interesting question. I think I am a bit of both. But for me a maker is not someone who does a lot of editing and dark room manipulations. It is someone who has a preconceived idea in his mind e.g. "shadows of people walking in the urban landscape among rain" and does that consistently almost like a mass "production" of similar images. That doesn't let life surprise you which I consider it bad for creativity. I crop, I enjoy editing and experimenting but as soon as I see a style or a theme that I know very well and tends to repeat I consciously try and move away from it. So I could say I am a taker then maker and when making starts to overcome the procedure I am back to being a taker
 
My guess is that sometime in the not too distant future my grandchildren with Ai technology will dictate into their phones what they see and how they would like it printed and maybe framed. It would be Wi-Fi’d to their home system or maybe to a service that would make a finished product and then delivered to them via a drone delivery service. However they probably will still have to hammer a nail into the wall to hang it.
 

AI for photography would be for the iPhone to tell the user that the composition is poor and how to correct that defect.
 
PS they gave me a digital frame that they email pictures to that plays them as a slide show. Even with background music.
 

Hahahaha
 
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