World Of Dull Photography
“…that made you read, and reread, and then dream about the topic." (Writing Your Dissertation in 15 minutes a Day, Joan Bolker, p.33)
How many times I wouldn’t read this quote it always brings me to photography. Nowadays almost everyone has the camera, everyone can take pictures. And with help of internet and torrent, almost everyone can get their free copy of Photoshop and make their photographs look “perfect”.
“Perfect”, what is perfect photograph? What is at least “good” photograph? Nevertheless, even the thing/object/subject in the photograph looks just like from Magazine cover (skin is soft and clean, face neither fat nor slim, the composition looks perfect) - how great those pictures wouldn’t look, but the fact is clear that not every photograph can be exhibited in the art gallery. Why? Well most probably because these days everyone is so dependent on Google and they find only those tutorials that over millions of people find. So they start doing the same thing other people do, thinking that they create something new, even though they just recreate what they have already seen somewhere.
“Perfect”, what is perfect photograph? What is at least “good” photograph? Nevertheless, even the thing/object/subject in the photograph looks just like from Magazine cover (skin is soft and clean, face neither fat nor slim, the composition looks perfect) - how great those pictures wouldn’t look, but the fact is clear that not every photograph can be exhibited in the art gallery. Why? Well most probably because these days everyone is so dependent on Google and they find only those tutorials that over millions of people find. So they start doing the same thing other people do, thinking that they create something new, even though they just recreate what they have already seen somewhere.
What they do is that they only apply that ‘filter” on their photograph, on their own photograph, taken by them, and later claim how “perfect’ their photograph is. And in the end they think why they can’t get into any Gallery.
Answer is clear. Their pictures are dull, showing something and nothing, you don’t want to dream with those pictures, nor think something more about them.
How I wish that photographers would start questioning what they are doing, why are they doing that, why they are shooting this but not that. “Why, why, why”.
Answer is clear. Their pictures are dull, showing something and nothing, you don’t want to dream with those pictures, nor think something more about them.
How I wish that photographers would start questioning what they are doing, why are they doing that, why they are shooting this but not that. “Why, why, why”.
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