Reply To: "Real" photographers are dumb

[civo]

Finally some reasonable arguments. But to point out, I have not once referred to money. What do you care if someone wants to pay for a less educated photographer than you? Is it directly out of your pocket? They will also get paid most likely a lot less. Some people also make a clear decision not to pay 3000 dollars/euros/pounds for wedding photos and rather settle for less quality for a cheaper price just to document the event. And they get what they bargained for.

And to answer ”cameraclickers” question, if it was my baby, sure I could hang out this picture on my living room wall. I have a lot stranger stuff hanging on my walls also. But most likely I would let the baby to draw his/her self-portrait straight to the wall with crayons.

Also using pictures of your family to make them look ”beautiful”, boost your ego or justify your status in society is not very interesting to me. Maybe it is to you.

Define good art then? Contemporary art is much more concept-based than about formal things as ”beauty” or composition. Of course in an ideal case the content and form are entwined together. All images are potentially art but not actually.

And surely ”art” and ”interesting” are not requirements for this genre. But that doesn’t also justify you to tell people what kind of images they should like.