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Back in the Film days when a an excellent photo pups up it is remembered for a very long time with its WOW but nowadays with millions of digital images taken daily we are so saturated with images that photographs lost the enjoyment and excitement we used to enjoy and we end up seeing photos repeated every day,

Q is: will photography melt into our daily life like mobile phones and loose the art and excitement and be a communication tool we use daily or will it keep its spirit?
 
ha ha just kidding ... nice image
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Do you really think there are much more pictures being taken now with digital? Obviously it must have risen a fair bit but the biggest factor is the internet that allows people such an ease of sharing photos. Before the internet there were still people taking lots of photos, its just these photos never had the freedom of the internet.
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ffureel said:
Do you really think there are much more pictures being taken now
with digital? Obviously it must have risen a fair bit but the
biggest factor is the internet that allows people such an ease of
sharing photos. Before the internet there were still people taking
lots of photos, its just these photos never had the freedom of the
internet.
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I think there have always been people who take pictures, and those who just don't, regardless of the medium. Thirty-three years ago, when I was 12, our class did a 2-day field trip. I still have the (faded) prints from the 4 rolls of 110 I shot. In contrast, a former co-worker did a 3-week trip to China a couple years ago. Didn't shoot a single pic. Didn't even bring a camera. Doesn't even care to look at pictures.

To be sure, the internet has allowed us to share 100's of photos with people we'ill never know. Today I see more good images in week than I I ever saw in a year. But to me that's a good thing. Will people stop enjoying good pictures? Many of us will not, and many of us never did, so maybe the future holds the same!

-smu

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... photography is becomming part of the new written word. When you study the english language at its roots, for many many years, the ability to write was an art... a WOW factor. The early Celt bibles were absolutely incredible works of art. But now you look at written language and you analyze its meaning for artistic merit, use the letters together to from ideas in a more integrated art level. Photos are becoming the next form of written word. Our communication level is increasing exponentially, and we need more than just words to show ideas. Film, Images, writing, and music are all needed in various combinations now.

Think of it this way... there may be less wow factor... but there sure is more demand!

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Cliche statements don't strike my fancy.
 
Only certain photographs make people go wow.

These are normally taken buy a professional, or the odd image taken by a very lucky person.

A a professional, and without being too boastful, I would say I have created quite a lot of images that have made people go wow.

If you add up all the probably billions of photos taken with mobile phones and sorted through them I really much doubt you'd find anything other than a very,very,very small percentage of 'wow' photos.
 
riddell said:
If you add up all the probably billions of photos taken with mobile
phones and sorted through them I really much doubt you'd find
anything other than a very,very,very small percentage of 'wow'
photos.
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In the same vein, of all the people who know how to talk, and of all the talking that's been done over the centuries, how much of that has had the "Wow" factor.

Yet, it still happens sometime, and most often that, too, is by a professional writer.

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RDKirk
'TANSTAAFL: The only unbreakable rule in photography.'
 
riddell said:
Only certain photographs make people go wow.

These are normally taken buy a professional, or the odd image taken
by a very lucky person.

A a professional, and without being too boastful, I would say I
have created quite a lot of images that have made people go wow.

If you add up all the probably billions of photos taken with mobile
phones and sorted through them I really much doubt you'd find
anything other than a very,very,very small percentage of 'wow'
photos.
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I beg to disagree. I have been wowed more by enthusiast photographers than by professional. Simply put, professionals are GENERALLY in it for the money (corporate shots, weddings, etc) while enthsuasts are in it for the satisfaction and artful expression. I am more easily wowed by artful expression.
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LanceB said:
I beg to disagree. I have been wowed more by enthusiast
photographers than by professional. Simply put, professionals are
GENERALLY in it for the money (corporate shots, weddings, etc)
while enthsuasts are in it for the satisfaction and artful
expression. I am more easily wowed by artful expression.
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A corporate or wedding shot may not have the artistic expression you look for, but that does not mean that the client does not go 'wow' As long as you have exceeded their expectations with what they wanted to achieve you'll have a 'wow' shot.

Secondly any amateur who understands artful expression is clearly a way advanced amateur. That wasn't the original arguement. The original poster indicated everyday people taking everyday snapshots and making 'wow' shots. An everyday snap shotter, which the vast percentage of people who own a camera can be classified as, do not take into account artful expression.
 
..and don't forget, some of us mere wedding shooters do actually inject our particlar feel and style into our imagery. We have to WOW our brides every weekend, not just when the mood takes us, regardless of weather, light, location,or the participants. The WOW factor is alive and well...but like many things, it is in the eye of the beholder.

Andrew
 
I am inclined to agree with LanceB -- by FAR the most "WOW" photos Ive seen in the recent past have been by advanced amateurs. The differentiation in skill and talent (not business skill, of course) between pro and amateur is along a continuous axis, NOT black and white.

I would agree that pros GENERALLY measure on the higher values, but holy cow is there a great deal of overlap at this point.
 
Ahhhh..we've bought business into the equation....I thought we were talking aesthetics. (bugger...can't spell!!)

Amateurs have the luxury of not having to take a WOW shot on call...tomorrow brings us a web site shoot for a large RSL Club and a number of "Brides" for a wedding dress shop..they all HAVE to be good or better than good...and BTW 2 after hours interviews with potential wedding clients. That's what seperates the pro shooter from the pack IMHO, and that is not denegrating in any way the ability or artistic talent of the advanced amateur
 
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