>>4390006No. Photography is the use of a tool. Any fucking baboon who can read an owners manual or follow along a youtube video can operate a camera. That takes 0 brainpower. It's what you make using photography that counts.
Photography is a favorite among aspie nerds with no capacity for abstract thought, not your dejected artistes, but you dejected engineering students. They can read a fucking spreadsheet full of specifications, compare specs objectively without any pesky imagination required, purchase the tools they think are objectively superior, and as easy as following the steps, immediately start producing "accurate" output with it, just as they prefer to see the world. No troubling indeterminate areas, no interpretation, no abstract thought or arcane reasoning required. This is why photography appeals to people who think it's all about the gear, bc when you take that approach its fucking simple and easy.
As the internet is full of programming & engineering school dropouts, it's no doubt that you'll find an endless amount of artistically incapable/hostile aspie dorks endlessly jabbering about camera specs, who can't produce a single fucking series of images that anyone wants to actually look at, much less put in a gallery, much less publish.
Just like music, the tools got so good, but left the artistic vision up to you, you can almost get away with letting the tools do all the work and sell yourself as an artist. Almost, bc other artists can see you're full of shit in .2 seconds.
