>>4442407>I can't describe it but I think society was better when someone with a camera was a rarity.it was
I used to believe that it would be a good thing because through the internet, basically anything would be available, and it would essentially be immortal, for instance imagine instead of having to go buy a book on Vietnam, you had a fuckhuge server filled with almost every available photo of vietnam including helmet cams, news video, cell phone footage, etc.
I've realized that I was dead wrong.
Most people take shit photos putting no thought into them, and they either get vomited onto instagram and deep fried by their compression and filters, or they rot on a cloud somewhere until they're deleted to make room for more shit photos
the only way I appreciate photos anymore, and the only way I enjoy the process is that I have a leatherbound scrapbook where I put my prints. Everything else gets deleted or thrown out. What goes in the scrapbook gets backed up on my server, but otherwise it ceases to exist.
it's really bizarre but I have gone backwards from a D850 to an AF600 point and shoot. It's no fun to grip and rip with a DSLR, and it's certainly no fun to smash a touchscreen. Phone photos look absolutely hideous as prints, too
