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I agree it may be easier for novices to take nice pictures nowadays with smartphones(Especially with old and new flagships iphones,pixels,samsungs and Lgs btw); You still need real skill to "Max Out" the quality of your photos. Only experts will have "Pulitzer Quality" Looking photos.
When I was a kid, photographers were a hard-working bunch, always in their dark rooms, running around with big lenses, waiting for that perfect shot and not knowing if they got it until days later. My mother was an amateur photographer, and we had a small studio in our bathroom. Nowadays, though, it's super easy to get a pile of shots; just press and hold the shutter button. And what's even worse is that most smartphones now use “clever” AI algorithms to “enhance” your photo and make it “studio-quality” (whatever that means). Do you think there's less skill involved in modern photography? Have smartphones made all of us nominees for a Pulitzer in photography?
There is definitely more denial in modern photography. Fed by companies like Apple, Google and Huawei spamming lies everywhere about smartphone camera chi.
I have a cheap system camera with a few prime lenses. There isn't even a discussion about what takes better photos between that Canon EOS M50 II and any smartphone. And the factual counter is, everything in the photo is real, not guesswork post-processing.
When I was a kid, photographers were a hard-working bunch, always in their dark rooms, running around with big lenses, waiting for that perfect shot and not knowing if they got it until days later. My mother was an amateur photographer, and we had a small studio in our bathroom. Nowadays, though, it's super easy to get a pile of shots; just press and hold the shutter button. And what's even worse is that most smartphones now use “clever” AI algorithms to “enhance” your photo and make it “studio-quality” (whatever that means). Do you think there's less skill involved in modern photography? Have smartphones made all of us nominees for a Pulitzer in photography?
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I agree it may be easier for novices to take nice pictures nowadays with smartphones(Especially with old and new flagships iphones,pixels,samsungs and Lgs btw); You still need real skill to "Max Out" the quality of your photos. Only experts will have "Pulitzer Quality" Looking photos.
When I was a kid, photographers were a hard-working bunch, always in their dark rooms, running around with big lenses, waiting for that perfect shot and not knowing if they got it until days later. My mother was an amateur photographer, and we had a small studio in our bathroom. Nowadays, though, it's super easy to get a pile of shots; just press and hold the shutter button. And what's even worse is that most smartphones now use “clever” AI algorithms to “enhance” your photo and make it “studio-quality” (whatever that means). Do you think there's less skill involved in modern photography? Have smartphones made all of us nominees for a Pulitzer in photography?
There is definitely more denial in modern photography. Fed by companies like Apple, Google and Huawei spamming lies everywhere about smartphone camera chi.
I have a cheap system camera with a few prime lenses. There isn't even a discussion about what takes better photos between that Canon EOS M50 II and any smartphone. And the factual counter is, everything in the photo is real, not guesswork post-processing.
When I was a kid, photographers were a hard-working bunch, always in their dark rooms, running around with big lenses, waiting for that perfect shot and not knowing if they got it until days later. My mother was an amateur photographer, and we had a small studio in our bathroom. Nowadays, though, it's super easy to get a pile of shots; just press and hold the shutter button. And what's even worse is that most smartphones now use “clever” AI algorithms to “enhance” your photo and make it “studio-quality” (whatever that means). Do you think there's less skill involved in modern photography? Have smartphones made all of us nominees for a Pulitzer in photography?