Think of all those horseman who used to laugh at folks driving cars
when they came out.
Those car drivers were not "real horseman".
Well, of course not -- they were car drivers. That they both could
be considered "transportation" does not make them the same thing.
You laugh at the thought of a digital shooter being on a "real
shoot" with "velvia" -- lol!
I laugh at all the film dinasaurs who don't know beans about
computers.
Digital shooters don't need film talent. All the time and pain you
went through to learn that stuff -- we don't need to.
Isn't that great?
Now, photography skills -- those we do need. But "film" was just a
photography medium -- one that is being rapidly replaced by digital
as the medium.
But the digital shooters are coming up the learning curve a whole
lot faster than it took you film guys. So laugh at the digital
newbie now -- who doesn't YET have your photography skills.
But beware the Detroit syndrome -- remember when they used to
laught at those ridiculous and tiny Japaneese cars?
I'm an old dog in the software development trade. I have 20 years
of experience. But you know what? It doesn't take 20 years to
learn what I know now that's applicable to what I do now.
All those dead languages that I learned that aren't used anymore.
Todays software developer doesn't need to learn them.
What I know now that took me twenty years to learn can be learned
by a college graduate in about 5 years -- maybe less for the really
talented.
I bought my first digital SLR last Oct. and my little photo hobby
has really taken off. I have 15,000 photos on the camera already.
In 9 months.
I shoot church events and soccer games and softball games and
vacations and family events. And I'm not just shooting -- I'm
learning. I'm playing with this technique and that.
I'm seeing my results and I'm saying "what could I have done to fix
this or that".
I could never learn this fast with film because I couldn't have
afforded the film and the processing.
Are there "hack digital photographers"? Surely -- just as there
are film photographers that aren't very good too.
But beware how fast these hack photographers can turn into credible
photographers when shooting in digital.
All these guys getting into photography b/c it is digital and easy
makes me sick...
LOL!
Have you all seen some of the pictures that people are producing
Yeah -- some very high quality stuff -- in addition to the dross.
Are you suggesting that all the film shooters are Ansel-ites?
It won't. It's going to increase as the camera technologies go
throught the computer technology price/performance curve.
All these weekend photographers buying professional level cameras
and then asking stupid simple questions in here makes me ill also...
Well, why don't you start your only private forum where people have
to answer your 10 question quiz in order to get the pass code.
You CAN put up such a site right? I mean, I can. And not by using
the free websites on the web -- but I can actually build the sites
myself.
Hope I don't see you nosing around any technology forums asking
"stupid simple" questions of a tech god like myself.
Wake up... For a lot of people like me this is a way of living and
a way of life...Not a weekend hobby.
So what? Why should it concern me what YOU do for a living?
The digital era is just flooding the market with these kind of
photographers... really sad...
Welcome to the real world where progress marches on.
Lee
