>>4369142>>When it comes to Flickr upload statistics, the number of photos uploaded daily is roughly 25 million photosMaybe I exaggerated, but you do realize a great number of these are still not actual photographs. The top cameras on flickr are all iphones.
>Every art photographer who has a semblence of a career is on instagram.*Every art photographer who hired a social media manager is required to post shoddy, IG user only copies to IG to advertise for their events where they show and sell the actual photos.
>Valuable to who? What kind of viewership we're talking about here? You and your friend? Viewership has always been the other part of the equationThe art world, and history, in the long term. An IG like is ephemeral and has no real world value, and low resolution images have limited avenues for emotional impact. Many gearfags will whine about this part but it's true, humans are visual and physical animals and higher resolution, more details, and more pleasing enlargements of a "pleasingly soft" photo (not low res digital AI smears) all add to the ways photography can impact someone.
Simply ask which photo of a president you would choose to keep, instagram screenshot, phone snap, 35mm film and ok lens at f8 (negative only), or well done canon r5 shot at the original resolution.
Photography is essentially more crippled today than when the principle way of doing it was with 35mm film, a 3 speed shutter, scale focusing, and a hand ground f3.5 lens without hard aperture stops.
