Oh now I'm not sure about that. I think there are a number of components to art : there's the equipment, and in photography the equipment has certainly come a very long way in terms of many pictures not needing complicated setup because the internal AI does it all for you.
But surely there is also the eye to see the image as a still picture : some people are definitely much better at that than others, and I think you are really good at it. I certainly know photographers who own a lot of complex cameras that don't produce such striking images.
And then in some forms of photography, quite complex setup is still needed: the equipment is far from being able to do it all for you. For example, my camera and phone cannot take photos of running sighthounds at dusk if I just point it : they come out blurred and the light is wrong. But with the right manual settings and the right lens choice, they look pretty OK.
Possibly, a really expensive camera AI could replicate that, but I am not sure.
However, my friend the puddleshark sometimes posts her remarkable still-life photos, which I really think must count as art. For example this one: http://puddleshark.livejournal.com/741006.html
- that's not just having the equipment, or the eye, or the knowledge to set up the camera, it's also assembling the subject matter and lighting it. If that isn't art, I don't know what art is!
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Date: 2016-09-18 04:06 pm (UTC)But surely there is also the eye to see the image as a still picture : some people are definitely much better at that than others, and I think you are really good at it. I certainly know photographers who own a lot of complex cameras that don't produce such striking images.
And then in some forms of photography, quite complex setup is still needed: the equipment is far from being able to do it all for you. For example, my camera and phone cannot take photos of running sighthounds at dusk if I just point it : they come out blurred and the light is wrong. But with the right manual settings and the right lens choice, they look pretty OK.
Possibly, a really expensive camera AI could replicate that, but I am not sure.
However, my friend the puddleshark sometimes posts her remarkable still-life photos, which I really think must count as art. For example this one: http://puddleshark.livejournal.com/741006.html
- that's not just having the equipment, or the eye, or the knowledge to set up the camera, it's also assembling the subject matter and lighting it. If that isn't art, I don't know what art is!