Perhaps you aren't getting these feedbacks here because the thread is about a different topic?
I'm not trying to get feedback, or be the most popular person on the block.
Don't care about tweets, likes, or feeds. That's just not in my dna.
I care about photography and image creation.
Also don't care what cameras people use, or the format of the wafer. That's old think and means nothing to me, though I'll admit I like larger cameras than smaller, like professional vs. prosumer, though I own both.
Not that it matters, but I use what I use because I want to. Love working with my Leica, because to me it's a well designed pleasure and it makes me work in a way I find unique.
It's not as easy as other cameras, but if I wanted easy I would have chosen a different profession.
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When I was in my early 20's working as an AD, a photographer came in with some amazing photography and I was hooked.
I went to my boss, gave two weeks notice and never looked back.
From that point on photographer wan't a job description, it is as much my being as my surname.
To me I learned the technical aspects to produce my brand of art. Technique wasn't about noise control or how much lattitude a sensor had, it was how to craft an image around the the liabilities of a film or a system.
Actually, it was more than that, it was how to USE the liabilities of a system to produce something unique.
Today it seems different. There seems to be a group dead set on having a camera that will shoot at any iso and have more lattitude than the human eye. I don't understand that because I want to produce something the brain can dream, not just what the human eye can replicate.
In fact there seems to be a group that is dead set to prove their choice of camera is the "correct" choice. I don't think that's possible.
The early RG forums were a gas. People learned, fought, argued, actually argued enough that the forums ultimatly blew up, though there was rarely a day when I didn't learn something or at the very least enjoy myself.
After RG many moved over here then the image makers, especially professionals that cared about the art, vs. only the technical drifted away to the point they now are mostly gone.
Michael does a great job with these forums, doesn't moderate heavily but today these forums won't blow up because many of the image makers with that overwhelming passion aren't here anymore
They are replaced by the PEO.
We don't have threads that say, "look at what I can do with my digital back" or why I selected this location, or how cool is it that the oversharpening of 21mpx can assist in producing a unique look.
We now have negative threads that say a camera maker is doomed, or how bad shadow noise is in a certain brand and those are just the titles, not the the body of the thread.
I guess the answer is it's the way of the world though I don't accept that. I know there are great photographers willing to share, but I can promise you most of them don't give a whit about dr or noise or twenty billion iso.
They care about the final image and go to great lengths to produce it, regardless of the equipment they use.
But in regards to the Apple I phone billboards they're ok photos, not great but ok. The only thing that bothers me is I can make a list of 20 photographers I know personally that if you put their photos in the same exact medium, people wouldn't say "that's nice" they'd say Holy Shit that's great and not because of the camera, but the talent that operates the camera.
IMO
BC
