I have to agree.. As much as i'm no fan of the wholesale adoption of digital, throwing the baby out with the bathwater and turning one's back on alternative formats, photography is many things to many people.
I have recently taken up oil painting. I am having trouble with people laughing when I say I'm already as good as artists who've spent many years learning the trade. But hey! I'm using the same brushes and paint!!
However those same people will go out and get someone with 5 minutes experience with a digital camera to shoot their wedding. It's the same camera the other guy was using and he charges $x,000!!
digital or film, light recorders are what we are.
Unfortunately, (am I saying this?) digital has brought about a revival in consumer photography. It is being seen as a commodity product because the cameras themselves are sold that way.
BTW, photographers were not looked down apon by artists at the dawn of photography
And I don't think photography is looked down on by a lot of artists either. Many (at least many that I know) realise that it's not a *snap*, go down to the local minilab, *sell* kind of thing.
unfortunate sequence of events led both the photographic aparatus AND the resulting images to be displayed in the same area as steam engines and farm implements during the first world trade fair in London that introduced photography to the world.
And now the fact that you can go down to the supermarket, buy your baked beans, milk and laundry powder, _and_ get your digital images printed.
Steve
AKA Dinasaur who still puts film in his camera, and works with the lights *off*
BOB ROSEN WHERE ARE YOU? <grin>
