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Macheath !8b4g0BkNZg
Since learning about photography, have you found yourself looking at "professional" photos differently? More critical? More appreciative?

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>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
yeah, but mostly in frustration at poor cinematography
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
There've been lots of photographs I've seen in museums and galleries and such where I've looked at them and said to myself "Well that's just plain not very good" which I never really noticed before. Like I was in a museum in Buffalo the other day and there were a couple of shots blown up to large size on one wall which looked like the sorts of shots you take when you first get your camera and want to make sure the shutter works. They were of the quote-unquote-artist's carpet and a bit of wall. One of those situations where large size + bullshit = Art.

And on the other side of things, I've found myself appreciating good photography a lot more than I did before becoming a photography geek. E.g., I can see why Cartier-Bresson and the FSA photographers are regarded as greats.

It was sort of a coming-of-age for me, I felt, the first time I went to an art fair and realized I could detect a noticeable skill gradient between the bad photographers and the good ones. Before it was just "Hey, there's some photography" and now it's "Hey, there's some photography that's crappier than mine" or "Hey, there's some photography that's better than mine"