stems in water in a vase ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
AS I WAS READING AN ENTRY ON YET another photo blog, I read that the picture maker had acquired an iPhone 11 Max and was posting his/her first picture made with the device. In doing so, the picture maker seemed to be a bit befuddled inasmuch as it was written that ...
[the] image up there is a snap shot... with all of the information that my Canon 7D Mk II would have gathered, perhaps even more....Problem is [using the iPhone], it doesn't make me feel like either a photographer or an artist.
I sorta get it but, then again, I really don't. Perhaps the difference between that picture maker and me is that I have never felt adverse to using any camera-sub-minature > 8x10 view cameras > Polaroid and "toy" cameras or even a scanner-in my picture making endeavors. No matter what picture making device (they are all devices) I use, I never felt myself to be less than a photographer inasmuch as, simply put, I was making pictures.
And, to be certain, isn't the act of a making picture, no matter the device used or the methodology employed, what the medium of photography and its apparatus is all about? Once again simply put, by dictionary definition-"a person who takes pictures"-is a photographer whether or not he/she "feels" like one.
As for the idea of feeling like an artist, that's another subject. To be honest, I am not sure that I know what an artist is supposed to feel like. However, I am pretty sure that it has little to do with the tools one uses to make art.
ASIDE This entry should not be understood to be criticism of the picture maker. He/she was not dumping on the iPhone but, rather, seemed to be perplexed by its ease of use, high quality results and how it feels in the hand ... leading him/her to the question, isn't making a good photograph / art suppose to be hard to do, not easy to do?
Perhaps the answer to that question can be summed up by writing, taking a photograph is not a hard thing to do but making a good photograph, aka: art, not so much. END OF ASIDE