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Insensitive PhotosAs an editorial stock photographer you are not coached or art-directed by someone else, as is the case in commercial photography. You make the decisions. As an editorial stock photographer your mission is to produce images of the world, as you see it. This is the same license given to any artist. If you are constrained as an artist, then you are influenced, and if you are influenced, your directions are coming from someone other than you. If this be the case, then the photograph is not really your artistry.
Society would prefer that artists produce material that is 'politically correct,' or to put it another way, to not produce material that is considered insensitive to local, regional, or national mores.
Within our own industry, critics of your editorial stock photography will often wave the banner of "ethics," claiming that you have overstepped certain boundaries in photographing wildlife, or natural objects. Or that you’re intruding into the private lives of individuals or government officials.
What does “ethics” have to do with art? Or don’t you consider yourself an artist? If you think of yourself as an engineer, or a technician, maybe ethics plays a role.
What society calls unethical today, can change tomorrow. Not unlike the fashion industry, or our own industry.
For example, a couple of decades ago, photographers were wringing their hands over the possibility that digital photography would disrupt the 'ethical purity' of a photograph by allowing the manipulation of the contents to create an altered image from the original. Today, the voices of protest have subsided and society accepts a digitized image.
This seems to be a cultural question. I don’t think that before digitizing, or before film for that matter, artists ever thought of “ethics” in their art. Before film and digits, there were sketches, oils, pastels, watercolors, engravings, lithographs -- and no one ever asked the artist if he or she were being 'ethical' by manipulating a scene to change it or improve it.
Photography, in my opinion, was never meant to be a mechanical art where the medium was in control, not the photographer. Editorial stock photography allows you to go beyond the mere 'taking' of a picture. It allows you to make a picture - and that's being an artist. –RE
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film cameras CNET (blog) With the recent hike in the price of film, plus digital photography so easily accessible, film cameras just aren't very common these days. But if you can't shoot with film, why not create wearable art pieces dedicated to the film cameras we love? |
What Specs Actually Matter in a Digital Camera? Lifehacker But there are specifications that can tell you a few things about a camera's image quality potential, and they all relate to its sensor. A digital camera sensor is, basically, its film. When you take a photo, the sensor is exposed to light and other ... |
5 Steps for Great Action Photos PCWorld (blog) Remember that you'll need to snap the photo as the subject passes in front of you and continue to turn your body to track the subject's motion though the exposure. Many digital cameras--especially SLRs--will black out the viewfinder during the exposure ... |
![]() TribLocal | Digital Photography Workshop at Mayslake Peabody Estate TribLocal Basic knowledge of digital photography and the camera is required for this workshop. The workshop series costs $125 per participant and includes a one-year membership in the Mayslake Nature Study and Photography Club. Register by calling Mayslake ... |
![]() Gstyle magazine | FujiFilm FinePix HS30EXR, 30x Optical Zoom Camera Review Gstyle magazine by Samuel Huang | May 22, 2012 | Digital Photography, G-Zone The FujiFilm FinePix HS30EXR is the 2nd travel zoom/super zoom camera from FujiFilm that I had a chance to take a look at. The first was the FinePix F770EXR which was a compact travel zoom ... |