The popularity of digital photography brought upon us an endless barrage of photo editing utilities that have altered the photography scene forever.
Some use them for simple cropping and color adjusting to keep the integrity of the picture, while others use them to "uglify" their shots with light streaks, stars, and whatever stamps are out there on Photoshop. Local digital photographers where I’m at suffer from the disease of uniformity. Barely anyone’s creative anymore. All the shots and subjects are more or less the same. Like they were thought up by a puppet master; as if it was a country wide prank.
What I don’t understand is how some shoot digital but alter them in a way that makes them look analog, is that to compensate for a lack of skills or is it a nostalgia for analog photography?! Why don’t you go and learn how to shoot analog in the first place. This intense shift and instant gratification found in digital photography has stripped real photographers of the effort and work they actually put into their work from light metering to developing film. The anticipation of waiting for your results, the several frames taken just in case the first one you took doesn’t work out, all pay off when you pick up your film from the developer.
So YES, you’re not a real photographer unless you shoot film, deal with it.
"Anonymuse"
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