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    the iPhone doesn’t make you a photographer…

    I recently read a post on the forkbombr.com that had an excerpt from a tabloid tech blog I shall not name, about how a couple fancy filters on the iPhone don’t make you a photographer. I don’t know if there are masses of people running out and getting business cards stating they are a professional photographer because they have the Hipstamatic app. Nor are they taking on jobs to photograph weddings or trying to shoot for Vogue with their iPhones. What’s incredible is that we have these little devices in our hands where we can create something beautiful and meaningful to us. If we share it and it moves others as well, then that’s all the better. I think software has been blurring the line for years. Real photography is an art, an absolute art that many don’t practice in the traditional means any longer. I don’t think you can blame the iPhone for that. You would probably be hard pressed to find someone that gave up real film and a dark room for a hipstamatic filter on an iPhone.

    I would rather see a nicely framed shot on an iPhone with a filter applied to add depth then a bad photoshop job, but maybe that’s just me. I don’t think our filtered little beauty shots from our iPhone are hurting anyone or putting anyone out of a job.

    1. macfusiongirl posted this
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I thought I was an artist, but really I'm more a geek. Occasionally, I need to embrace the artistic side of me. Welcome to Marilyn's Geek Craft. I embrace all art that is tech related, or just created by a tech ;)
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