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This might come as a surprise to some, but many casual browsers and potential buyers frown at the proposition of Digital Photography as a Fine Art. In fact I am fairly certain that some of you reading this passage find yourself in agreement with this notion.

Allow me to take a stab at this concept. I hope to see it bleed to a point that will allow you to see through the prejudice of a tool to an essence of an art work.

For this installment I would like to discuss the supposed ease of image alteration. Any owner of Cannon Digital Elf or any other point and shoot camera knows that Picasa’s “I Feel Lucky” button along with crop and sharpen features can take their digital snaps quite far along. Face recognition features in inexpensive digital cameras allow for wonderful family photos. This inevitably breeds a false perception that an observer could just as easily have taken the snapshot presented to him in a frame at a premium price.

A true craftsmen of the digital photography realm simply exchanges the red light of the dark room for the set of LED back-lights at his computer monitor. Complexity of analog photography is no longer an obstacle to achieving the final vision and style of the artist. Even though the artist can take thousands of snaps with out a penalty of forbidding costs there is still more then enough risk, chance and expertise in the photo-hunt.

Read the next post in this series to appreciate the complexity of the digital photographer’s craftsmanship.

ILYa

Every honest opinion is slanted towards writer’s personal interest and sprinkled with generalities. To make this modestly entertaining I have no intention of stray from this beaten path.

I firmly believe that people should buy art. This is something that should be done regularly and that this is something that general population needs to get good at.

There seems to be no authority on taste, so it is aught to be close to impossible to determine a good art buy from an aesthetic stand point. In this series “Agent’s Bias: buying art” I am going to muse on the subject of this unknown.

ILYa