Is it easy being a photographer?

The basics of becoming a photographer are incredibly easy now; You can buy a camera and some equipment, learn photography from a multitude of free online photography courses, practice your photography skills, find a niche that you can focus on.

Is photography still used today?

Photography is absolutely dead, technology killed it. Photographers were the visual story tellers of the 20th Century. Today, visual art seems to extend no further than applying a filter to yet another “selfie”, shared on whichever social platform has achieved critical mass on the day (only to be replaced tomorrow).

Why is photography so hard?

It’s as though photography was too easy to be accepted as an artistic skill, and too busy dwelling within that deficit to be move much beyond it. Therefore most serious photography tends to a set of discrete tasks to perform correctly. That makes it difficult.

How difficult is photography?

Photography is simple because you can pick it up in a minute. But photography is hard because it takes a lifetime to master. For example, any child can pick up a pencil, and write words. But it will take a master a lifetime to write poetry, which gives words meaning, levity, and wings.

Is photography really art?

As a relatively new medium, photography is not one of the traditional seven forms of art but it is included in the broader definition of the visual arts. Within the visual arts, photography can be categorized as either fine art or commercial art.

Is learning photography hard?

If you want to take pictures, no, it’s easy. Get a small P&S camera and snap away. Learn a little bit, just enough to make your pictures look decent and you’re ok. If you want to really take great pictures, there’s a lot of learning and work to do.

Is photography a dying art?

Photography is by NO means a dying art. If anything it’s an over saturated art, since nearly every single person on the planet can take a picture at any second.