has the fun gone out of photography

=adrian=

It's an instant gratification era. No time to learn. Press the shutter, snap a filter on it, upload to Instagram, count the likes. All in space of few minutes. We are just dinosaurs with way too much patience. Ain't noobody got time for that, these days.

However, who are we to judge whether that is good or wrong. It's just the way the whole photography industry going. I remember back in the days it was all about big productions. Big set, big budget, lots of people, lots of creative ideas, manual camera, hot lights, if it's good it got printed. Now, a guy with a point and shoot, a girl on a beach, 2 seconds, job done, which filter to apply, oh this one... and it gets printed in a magazine. Gets more likes and appreciation than big set productions. It is a new era of photography whether we like it or not. Era of likes and followers. If you got lots of followers, you get to be a trendsetter. No need for any photography knowledge. Simple as that.

Just buy any recent issue of Vogue and see the quality of photography in there. Often look like shot on a mobile phone by someone who has no idea and yet it gets printed in Vogue.

Yes, there still are people who care about shutter speed, ISO, aperture, focal length, bokeh, etc. There are fantastic photographers who to it the old way. But even they had to adapt, join Instagram, chase followers, etc. Plus the budgets are not there any more. Today, if you are not on Insta and don't have many followers, you are not a photographer (with some exceptions of course).

Things has changed. I see it first hand.