Your opinions on this quote?

From the mouth of the master: Truth.

It has only gotten worse since digital has become the standard method of capturing images. I mean, really, we don't even shoot any more, we "capture". And we don't worry if its not perfect, we fix it in post processing. Ahem.............

Oy, its too early in the morning for this, or maybe too late altogether.

I then to agree with Perki88. My standard statement is that digital photography is the best, and worse, thing to ever happen to photography.

Not all photography has to strive to be some kind of work of art, and the great majority of it today is not. Too many people with no skill or a creative bone in their body going around with the delusion they are a "professional photographer" taking awful flower photos and such, then plastering it all over social networks with some kind of "..... Photography" name along with it. That is the bad part of it all, and the part that makes Mr. Adams statement very true.

You have to wonder what Mr. Adams would think of photography today. Remember, when he made that statement, there were no masses of digital button pushers. At his time, photography WAS much more difficult than today, so in a sense, he really did not know just how bad it would get in the future.

Then, on the other side of the coin, the current ease of photography allows many important memories and events to be photographed by people that would otherwise not happen. Looking back on my past, there are so many times in my life that I now wish I had photos of, however, due to the "hassle" of carrying a camera around all the time and film buying and processing etc, I just did not bother with it. If my little pocket digital point and shoot had existed though, I would now have photos of people and events in my past that now only exist in my memory.

So it is all a double edged sword. It all has it's place, even, I suppose, the kids with their silly phone and Instagram stuff.

My largest gripe is with all the clueless DSLR owning adults who try to pass themselves off as good photographers and actively take money from equally clueless people.

The real downside to it all is that the general public is very quickly losing knowledge of what is, and is not, good photography. Garbage is now being accepted as the norm and perceived as "good". THAT is the "creative disaster".

steve

I agree in the artistic sense, but it dismisses the whole value of a snapshot as a memory or family treasure.

very true... in his time the only cameras they had you had to take time to get settings right. there was no "auto" mode... now in today the only way to do that is have a dslr and learn how to use the Manual mode. but 90% of people buy them and never take it out of auto... its very sad because the dslr cameras are meant for professionals...

cr@p. Long live Smartphone and Instagram.

I agree with it

iThink it was prophetic.

Duh.