Mamigonian Photography

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The Photographer 2014

05/19/2014

Is it possible that anyone with a smart phone can deem themselves a true photographer? I do not believe so. A couple of selfies here and there along with some "cool pics" of "stuff" does not make you a photographer.

Photography is about having "the eye", skill, artistic expression, and precision. I learned the Art of Photography when I was in the 6th grade - almost thirty year ago... way back when kids didn't know an age of computers, smartphones, and iPads. I was taught how to develop black and white film, and then eventually creating my own prints - in a dark room!

When our world changed from film photography to digital photography, I fought it as long as I could until one day I finally caved and purchased my first digital camera (Canon Rebel EOS), and eventually... I retired my Canon Rebel film camera as it was becoming too costly to purchase film. Don't get me wrong... I STILL have a film camera as a back-up (as any true photographer should), because film can STILL capture something spectacular that digital cannot.

Needless to say, I adapted well to the digital age, and still love the idea that I can see my images immediately. However, nothing beats the excitement of anticipation as you develop your own images to see how they turned out. BUT... one thing that any true (respectable) photographer will do is reject the idea that a smartphone is a great instrument to creating iconic and breath-taking pictures.

A smartphone is nothing more than an idiots tool to a false sense of greatness. What happens when your smart phone breaks? What happens to your pictures, and your ability to live in your false sense of creativity? Your world will fall apart.

I think smartphone photography will be the beginning of the end of TRUE photography. If that is the case... RIP f-stops, and light metering!

David Guttenfelder ended 2013 with the title Time Magazine’s Instagram Photographer of the Year. “The veteran photojournalist is a seven-time World Press Photo award-winner,” wrote Time’s senior editor Ishaan Tharoor. “He has traveled the world for the Associated Press, covering wars, elections and…