With the digital age upon us where in just about anything and everything is made easy, there are a lot of things that we do everyday comes into question. Our reliability to all of new inventions made to make our lives easy for GPS on our devices to diver less cars that are on the road currently, to cellphones with high resolution cameras to cameras with internet capabilities and most recently I saw a TV ad that promoted the camera capabilities of a cellphone and said a studio a your hands then mentioned the brand but there was nothing said about it being a cellphone. So where am I going with this, well I am a Portrait photographer among other things and I am a good one at that. Not too long ago I did freelance portraits photography for a studio in LA and all they did was High-end Portraits exclusively for Country Clubs only. The end product looked liked a sit in portrait in oil done by a painter this is because the product enhanced manually by an artist then it was printed on artist canvass and looking at it from a distance it projects to be an oil painting. Well off course the original image needs to be properly lighted and exposed then the expression caught at the right moment and there you have it a perfect original. There was a production that went on behind producing a good heirloom that is handed down through generations.
Today, a selfie is king, a travel camera is captured by a cellphone. Pictures that are distorted because the camera is raise to high that it makes the forehead longer, shoulders wide and feet like toothpick has become the norm. A landscape means a sunset or a bright sunny scene taken with a cellphone which becomes a material for posting on social media is the in thing. But as long as people accepts this standard then that is what counts. Though I still believe that a well thought off images will always be superior than the point and shoot cellphone or cameras use by today's so called "photographers", maybe as my older brother would say, I am a dinosaur and believes in the past.
I have always made it a point to tell digital photographers that the camera is the tool and the photographer controls what the camera should do and not the other way around. Please see below some samples I have pulled out randomly for this article. As always, I would appreciate any comments by our readers.
