Camera Takes Pictures That Allow For Focus Adjustment AFTER The Photograph Is Taken
Unlike a regular camera, the Lytro Light Field Camera allegedly gathers ALL the light information coming through the lens, allowing a user to manipulate the focus/color of a shot on a computer long after the picture was taken, effectively making it possible to take amazing looking photographs with absolutely zero skill or coordination. *Sits back and waits for the inevitable ‘I AM TEH L337 PHOTOGRAPHER!!!!11’ Facebook albums to start popping up*
(via Camera Takes Pictures That Allow For Focus Adjustment AFTER The Photograph Is Taken - Geekologie)
Dear Camera Companies,
I understand you want to push technology to the limits to make for the best photographing exexperience. Also you want to make things as consumer friendly as possible to sell as much product as possible. But when everyone can paint a Picasso by pressing a button it diminishes the beauty of an actual Picasso. it also enables people to be uneducated in the “art form” that they undertaking. Yes, there will still be a difference between amateur and professional photographs based on composition and emotion of the photos but by allowing people to feel like they are professional with these advancements you are destroying the respect for actual professionals.
Respectfully,
Mikey P. (half-assed photographer)What he said.
How does this ‘diminish the beauty of an actual Picasso?’ That is one of the single most insane things I have ever heard in my life. More people making art means more art. That’s a good thing. It doesn’t change the aesthetic value of existing art. That makes no sense. Elitism gets us nowhere as artists and I wish more of us could accept that.
If there are more beautiful images coming into the world, how exactly will that make anything worse? It’s like a good driver getting upset over the existence of power steering. As much as it’s nice to show off all of your skills and prove to the world that you don’t need the electronic assistance, isn’t it good that everyone else can have it so you don’t have to look at a bunch of car wrecks/shitty photographs/whatever the metaphor is?
I’m certainly no expert, but I believe that being a photographer means more than just being able to turn three knobs and press a button. If you’re a photographer and feel more threatened or irritated than excited about this technology, you need to step your game up. Be good enough that even those autofocusing neo-Plebeians who lack your refined aesthetic perception will take notice.
^ That.
A camera is just a tool… no one asked Picasso what kind of brush he used… it’s the artist behind the camera/brush that makes it art.
