Comments on: Why I love digital photography http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/05/19/why-i-love-digital-photography/ apparently much happier in person Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:03:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Longview Photography http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/05/19/why-i-love-digital-photography/#comment-185399 Longview Photography Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:58:43 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/05/19/why-i-love-digital-photography/#comment-185399 I read somewhere that it takes 50,000 photos to get "really good" so maybe that's why you're becoming happier with your images. I've found with my photography I've having to buy more and more external hard drives to hold all the photos I take. I can't seem to throw any away knowing that as techniques advance, I might be able to salvage some throw away photos down the road. It's crazy! cool to graph it out, though. I wonder how many photos I've taken over the last several years.... I read somewhere that it takes 50,000 photos to get “really good” so maybe that’s why you’re becoming happier with your images. I’ve found with my photography I’ve having to buy more and more external hard drives to hold all the photos I take. I can’t seem to throw any away knowing that as techniques advance, I might be able to salvage some throw away photos down the road.

It’s crazy!

cool to graph it out, though. I wonder how many photos I’ve taken over the last several years….

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]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/05/19/why-i-love-digital-photography/#comment-83438 dnorman Sat, 19 May 2007 22:16:27 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/05/19/why-i-love-digital-photography/#comment-83438 I view the amateur/professional divide as more of an issue of opportunity. Pros get people to pay for them to go places and shoot stuff. Us amateurs get to shoot what we want, when we want. I went through a spell where I really wanted to be a pro photographer, but I think in many ways that might be really limiting. You have to shoot what other people tell you to. Unless you're really lucky (Franz Lanting, etc...) and get funding to shoot what you want. I'm not sure what it means for pro/am distinctions, but as an amateur I can take this many photos with little effort, and wind up with a fair number of photos that I'm really happy with - something that wasn't possible a few years ago. What does this imply for other vectors of mass amateurization? Not long ago, you needed to buy a multi-million-dollar printing press to run a newspaper. Now, you just need a Dreamhost account and a copy of MediaWiki or WordPress. You needed to license radio spectrum and buy licenses to broadcast radio shows. Now, you just need WordPress and a Dreamhost account. Heck, you don't even need your own servers - there are free hosted services that are more than adequate to outreach what was only possible with conventional means less than a decade ago. I view the amateur/professional divide as more of an issue of opportunity. Pros get people to pay for them to go places and shoot stuff. Us amateurs get to shoot what we want, when we want.

I went through a spell where I really wanted to be a pro photographer, but I think in many ways that might be really limiting. You have to shoot what other people tell you to. Unless you’re really lucky (Franz Lanting, etc…) and get funding to shoot what you want.

I’m not sure what it means for pro/am distinctions, but as an amateur I can take this many photos with little effort, and wind up with a fair number of photos that I’m really happy with – something that wasn’t possible a few years ago.

What does this imply for other vectors of mass amateurization? Not long ago, you needed to buy a multi-million-dollar printing press to run a newspaper. Now, you just need a Dreamhost account and a copy of MediaWiki or WordPress. You needed to license radio spectrum and buy licenses to broadcast radio shows. Now, you just need WordPress and a Dreamhost account. Heck, you don’t even need your own servers – there are free hosted services that are more than adequate to outreach what was only possible with conventional means less than a decade ago.

]]> By: Jim http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/05/19/why-i-love-digital-photography/#comment-83437 Jim Sat, 19 May 2007 21:56:27 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/05/19/why-i-love-digital-photography/#comment-83437 I love this graph. You're a nut! The folks who spend their time graphing the amount of photos they take over a ten year period, are exactly the people I want to be hanging out with. Particular passions alternatively represented (PPAR). None of this to circumvent the excellent point you are making about digital photography and the rise in experimentation for the "average photographer" (is 10,000 shots a year average?). Moreover, what do such numbers and the ability to experiment do to the amateur/professional divide? Does this divide still exist as sharply? -seems like KK+ at NV was mildly suggesting it as a problematic. I love this graph. You’re a nut! The folks who spend their time graphing the amount of photos they take over a ten year period, are exactly the people I want to be hanging out with. Particular passions alternatively represented (PPAR). None of this to circumvent the excellent point you are making about digital photography and the rise in experimentation for the “average photographer” (is 10,000 shots a year average?). Moreover, what do such numbers and the ability to experiment do to the amateur/professional divide? Does this divide still exist as sharply? -seems like KK+ at NV was mildly suggesting it as a problematic.

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