Cell Phone Cameras

So I recently updated my phone and now it has a camera. I know almost everyone that ha phone has a camera attached to it. Cell phone camera and digital cameras have led to the fall of quality of photography. I know this sounds dismal and hypocritical but it's true. Yes I use digital photography, but that is not to say that I have completely given up on film, rather that I know the major downfalls of film.

Film is beautiful and nothing can change that but here it is, the major downfall especially in our current environmental and social context, is that film is environmental damaging with all the chemical and all the silver it uses and creates waste.

So why do I still think that the quality of photography has taken a loop toward the hole? Easy, and convenience. Yeah that's it. It's to easy to pick up a digital camera of phone and shoot. This can even apply to film, and the quality is not as soupier to film. This had caused a loss of jobs for photographers, and if your asking what or how here it is. Time Magazine has published and does publish cell phone photos and there it is. Travel photographers and photojournalist are losing jobs. So it has affect the commercial industry where else does this apply?

Where I live and I'm sure where you live to there are tons of photographers and everyone is competing for work. I don't know about you but I've tried to sell photos at sport events and such ( I have sold photos, but it doesn't make any money not when you factor in cost of driving, and time), only to see that there are people that can afford better equipment and aren't trying to sell it but give it away. Where does this leave someone like me. Hungry, and always looking for work. 

There is also billions of photographers that shoot weddings and if you are like me then you can see that their work is nothing special, and most of the time they try to fix their mistakes by photoshoping the images, and it is APPARENT and looks like shit. At studios they prefer people that have NO experience or NO knowledge of photography working at the studio (I know  first hand). Lighting has taken a backseat in many of images, because of digital cameras, and phones.

I can go one forever about this, but forget about the bad. Let's look to the future. There is some sweet smells in the pile of shit. I don't have to spend lots of money on film, now. Film cameras are cheaper now. I can improve my lighting that much faster, and my learning curve is much different. I can use and own the large format camera, medium format that I would never been able to before. I take my knowledge from film and apply it to digital. 

This also gives young children a better opportunity to experience photography, and just like any art form experience is beneficial.

Photography also now has a different opportunity. It can become a great medium and take different forms and routes in the art arena. We aren't killing the environment with each roll being processed, and now WE can bring photography to another level, and reform it to this new DIGITAL AGE of bigger, better, faster.

WORDS TO LIVE BY;

Let the light paint your world.