These days everyone and their moms claim to be "interested in photography" on their resumes, and have all the fancy equipment and SLR cameras. I don't recall interest in photography being such a ubiquitous thing before -- perhaps the transition from film to digital has made photography more accessible since you don't have to pay for having the film developed or have to do it yourself in a dark room. Anyway, having a super shallow depth of field and cranking up the contrast on your computer, or Adobe Lightroom-ing a photo to make it all yellowy and vintagey-looking, seem to be what pass as good photography nowadays, at least on blogs (and no, I'm not saying mine are any better). It bugs me that it's a formula for creating aesthetically pleasing pictures and that's what everyone (but not literally everyone) does Where's the creativity? I just think it leaves something to be desired.
Labels: blogs, photography, random