Photographers are tired of out of touch influencers

[Terrywoodenpic]

Sure, but you saw much less of it because it was harder.

Take sports fotography. How many pics do you think a photographer has of a football game now versus when it was film?
If there is a goal, then they for sure have like 100 takes with the ball in every position..

And how many of those thousands of images are ever published.
A sorts photographer using film would always take enough.
The same for wedding and social photography. Quantity has largely replaced quality

 

[Ed Sutton]

Many excellent action shots were taken of diving kingfishers with film , some with high speed cameras and some with camera traps and quite a few by skilled nature photographers using standard equipment.
Digital uses all those techniques, but has made things simpler for everyone to try with inbuilt feature

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[Pound Coin]

That's only true in abstract. Those actually doing science treat 'known facts' as if they are exactly that while exploring the unknowns. If fresh data turns up to challenge those facts then one adjusts accordingly, but otherwise you trust them. If nothing were known to be true then no work could ever be done.

and of course, it must be added that just because one scientific theory is proved wrong with new evidence, it doesn't mean that all scientific theories will be.

 

[Earley Man]

It depends a bit on what kind of photography you want to do.
For landscapes a high resolution is appreciated, for birding, you need long lenses, and high megapixel camera will allow cropping.

Exactly what I was thinking. My main hobby is ships and shipping, when I get chance nowadays, and for the photography, nearly all record rather than artistic. I need and use lenses from my Fuji 16-55 to the 150-600. If the vessel is a couple of miles offshore the 16-55 is useless, if it is alongside a berth in a port the 150-600 is equally useless.

As the old saying goes "It's horses for courses" every time.

 

[MK1 Photography]

It's a very interesting piece with some really good comments, I used to watch influencers but rarely do now as they always say the same thing.
The way I see it is if you enjoy photography whatever you use - stay happy with that. I shoot M43 and that's enough

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

That's only true in abstract. Those actually doing science treat 'known facts' as if they are exactly that while exploring the unknowns. If fresh data turns up to challenge those facts then one adjusts accordingly, but otherwise you trust them. If nothing were known to be true then no work could ever be done.

That's a bit above my paygrade but my sister's first husband, a working researcher with a PhD in biochemistry and several patents in the field of materials engineering, told me that the point of science is that the past must always be treated as suspect.

As I recall it, he said that you never started new research on the assumption that a theory was true but only on the basis that it worked now. He told me that much of his work was looking at what people thought were the facts and looking for ways that he could prove them wrong. The point was to define new rules that allowed his company to make new products using those new rules.

Of course, I was only eleven and had just started at the local senior secondary, whereas he was more than fifteen years older than me and may have been oversimplifying for my benefit. However, that was also what I was taught, all the way up to "A" levels. So, for the moment, I'll hold on to that advice.

 

[ancient_mariner]

The point was to define new rules that allowed his company to make new products using those new rules.

And this drives the point home really - new rules that a business was built on. There may be a tiny number of people in science working to disprove current understanding, but most of us just get on and make stuff with the knowledge of what works now.

 

[jamesev]

That's a bit above my paygrade but my sister's first husband, a working researcher with a PhD in biochemistry and several patents in the field of materials engineering, told me that the point of science is that the past must always be treated as suspect.

As I recall it, he said that you never started new research on the assumption that a theory was true but only on the basis that it worked now. He told me that much of his work was looking at what people thought were the facts and looking for ways that he could prove them wrong. The point was to define new rules that allowed his company to make new products using those new rules.

Of course, I was only eleven and had just started at the local senior secondary, whereas he was more than fifteen years older than me and may have been oversimplifying for my benefit. However, that was also what I was taught, all the way up to "A" levels. So, for the moment, I'll hold on to that advice.

Science is the equivalent of forecasting and doesn't have the luxury of actual information when setting a new theory. So science proposes a theory or hypothesis or model then tests that. If the results are repeatable and expected then the theory is deemed to be the scientific truth. But then some parameters change when the environment changes hence for all intents and purposes Newtonian Physics worked at a terrestrial level but then the rule book had to be rewritten when we could experiment "extraterrestrially" or we could observe non-terrestrial environments.

What influencers do online... I couldn't care less. Yes, I watch some youtubers and follow some instagrammers, but I am quite selective.

They disturb me much more when they are just walking in your frame without asking, or see the need to 'reserve' too much public space during a longer time for their shots or movies.
If it takes too long, then I will gladly walk in and take my shot if they ignore me.

Fact is, they become much more easy to recognize as they are dressing up and then visiting public busy spaces like Mont Saint Michel, a famous park or like the Brussels Market place.

I think even some people, formally in the influencers arena got tired of their own - now those seem to call themselves "content-creators". However many of them have become as annoying when they post the same reel / dance to the same music just changing what they are wearing over-and-over-and-over purely because views = £

 

[Raincloud]

I was literally on about lower mega pixel cameras in the day....not film.