alt Hacker NewsWhen digital cameras replaced traditional ones, we thought it would make photography more democratic: each of us would be Helmut Newton for 15 minutes. But it didn't give us the beautiful portraits and inspired lanscapes we expected, only millions of pictures of food.
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>But it didn't give us the beautiful portraits and inspired lanscapes we expected, only millions of pictures of food.
Here's a sample of my work using digital cameras, not a food picture in sight.
https://flickr.com/photos/---mike---/albums/7217772029640662...
The thing about having the ability to take effectively free photographs is that it really lets you experiment and learn the edges of what's possible.
I was inspired by Stanford's camera array, and wound up doing virtual focus synthetic aperture photography. I'm hoping to build a rig to do it on near real time, instead of the manual process I used to do on my train rides to and from work.
Sure, the removal of cost lead to a flood of the mundane, but it also means we can capture our lives in ways that even kings couldn't afford in the past. I have thousands of good photos, and even some video, of friends and family.