Google| Subject | Re: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D |
| From | Floyd L. Davidson |
| Date | 2013-12-06 18:58 (2013-12-06 08:58) |
| Message-ID | <8761r1dfoi.fld@apaflo.com> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | PeterN |
PeterN <peter.newnospam@verizon.net>wrote:
PeterNPeter you might be a snob, but your problem there is one of word usage.
Well, you may call me a snob, and technicallly you are right, but in I do not equate picture taking with photography. Not all who take pictures are photographers. Sorta like the difference between a bookkeeper and an accountant.
Not all pictures are photographs, but by definition all photographs are pictures. If by "take pictures" you mean by use of a camera, then by definition the person doing so is at a minimum a "camera operator", and almost certainly a "photographer".
I'll grant that if someone else sets up the entire shot, with a camera on a tripod, and then hands a shutter release cord to another person and says wait ten seconds and push the button, that person is not the photographer. But that isn't what you meant...
Someone who takes "snapshots", in any sense of the word (and there are several, not all of which are demeaning), is by definition a photographer. Worse, they are an artist, and the photography they make is art.
Your point, or at least the sense you were trying to get at, is that not all photography is either good art or good photography. Some of it is very poor at best.
But you need to be clear that snapshots are photographs, photographs are art, and anyone who makes photographs is by definition a photographer and therefore an artist, even if they do horrible work.
Equally, you don't have to like *any* photography, good or bad. It would be amazing if you happened to like all good photography, or didn't like any distinctly bad photography. The quality of the art is only a part of what might be to like or dislike, and every person's taste is different.
-- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
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