Hey guys & gals. I’m looking for controversial topics and opinions for me to discuss on a podcast about the industry or as a creator. Give me your best! (Or I guess, worst?)
Phone vs camera. Often phone camera users mock people who invest in good camera gear. Also, often camera owners undermine people with good sense of framing that use only their phones for photography. Idk how it is everywhere, but at least in India I have come across this debate quite a lot
Phones are computers first, and cameras second.
Cameras are cameras first and computers second.
They both approach the same goal with different processes. Both are fine. Use what makes sense to you in the moment.
Personal feelings on the phone versus camera thing. Using a camera is what puts my brain into “photography mode” where I’m actually thinking about framing and composition and light whereas with my phone it’s more of a quick document the moment thing. Totally agree with the idea that the best one is whichever is available in any given moment though. While a thoughtfully composed image will be better than a quick grab,the quick grab is infinitely better than nothing at all.
Any mention of Leica triggers Redditors pretty hard.
Anything at all political, like compare Pete Souza’s images of Reagan and Obama with Trumps official images. (hope you like death threats)
“3D pop”, some religiously believe in it, some consider it religious heresy.
Sensor size wars.
I bitched about an article on Petapixel about women’s photo grants, and PETA banned me from the comments. And I’m a woman 😀 I guess when I said I would never hire another female assistant ever they didn’t like that. In the photographic field, I found years ago you just need to put gender aside. Just be a person. And dont expect anything special just because you’re female. And to me, that includes women only contests and grants. Can you imagine the uproar there would be if there was a Men Only contest or grant?
aI pHOToGRaphy iSn’t ReAl photography
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Ai isn’t photography, it’s digital image creation conceptualized by detailed copy writing and generated by software. Photography requires the use of a camera, Ai image creation requires describing something in detail to a computer program. Both require creativity and knowledge to produce good results, but they’re two totally different things.
Microcontrast
I wish more people would talk about how GAS is fueled and, in some cases, started by youtube photographers. So you end up with people coming into these subreddits talking about first camera purchase and only choosing the latest and most expensive one. I remember seeing some person wanting to purchase the A9III because it was expensive and new and that meant it was better. Was completely surprised when they were informed it was pre-order only.
The art and love of photography has been replaced with getting as much expensive gear as you can buy for not very good reasons. You have misinformed people coming in and assuming that X camera will do all these things and every photo will be magical.