Making that connection or the broken model
We've all been corrupted. Having that capture cleaned up and processed and sitting idle and only viewable to us is not an option. We want to share that image. We want others to peak at that moment we focused on and crystallized in time. it use to be that could be done when people came to our homes we would pull out the family albums. Large decorative photo books decorated many a coffee table where we could expose other people to our discerning tastes.
That is still true for a smaller and smaller segment of the population for the rest of us the internet has turned us all upside down. Emailing probably was one of the first forms of communicating with others the visual images we held. Now we are assembling blogs, twittering and pinning up our world. I don't think there is anyone that is better than any other. We simply need to decide what it is we are communicating and with who. Facebook is the most ubiquitous of all the services with over 1 billion user id's . But is the quality what we want and is the format conducive to the type of viewership.
There is a lot of talk of the pictures have lost their power with so many images now hoisted in from of us. There is undoubtedly some truth to this. However the power to grab our attention is still there as evidenced by the NY Post cover of a man about to lose his life. To be clear we need to consider the presentation when we layout our images, because otherwise they cannot help but be dismissed in the rush of pictures out there.
Inspiration has been a key motivator for people taking advantage of all these Social Media formats. However ,many great photographers have stated explicitly that they do not look at the Social media for images to be inspired by but use everything else. Which leaves the person who is being inspired left questioning whether his inspiration is going to carry him as far as the people 's whose images he enjoys have gone. It is an interesting question with no sure answers.
Personally I have found the Google+ platform both inspiring and a great platform to draw inspiration but often left questioning that besides photographers who else is seeing and enjoying my images and is that my target audience. Pinterest is largely popular to a certain demographic (women).Facebook while popular still requires a certain amount of openness that I am not to comfortable with due to its inability to really segment out personal from public. Google+ has this new function called communities that I hope will be helpful. we shall see how this all works out. Blogs and Websites still remain the best way digitally to control how people view your images and be an immersible experience.
There is a lot of talk of the pictures have lost their power with so many images now hoisted in from of us. There is undoubtedly some truth to this. However the power to grab our attention is still there as evidenced by the NY Post cover of a man about to lose his life. To be clear we need to consider the presentation when we layout our images, because otherwise they cannot help but be dismissed in the rush of pictures out there.
Inspiration has been a key motivator for people taking advantage of all these Social Media formats. However ,many great photographers have stated explicitly that they do not look at the Social media for images to be inspired by but use everything else. Which leaves the person who is being inspired left questioning whether his inspiration is going to carry him as far as the people 's whose images he enjoys have gone. It is an interesting question with no sure answers.
Personally I have found the Google+ platform both inspiring and a great platform to draw inspiration but often left questioning that besides photographers who else is seeing and enjoying my images and is that my target audience. Pinterest is largely popular to a certain demographic (women).Facebook while popular still requires a certain amount of openness that I am not to comfortable with due to its inability to really segment out personal from public. Google+ has this new function called communities that I hope will be helpful. we shall see how this all works out. Blogs and Websites still remain the best way digitally to control how people view your images and be an immersible experience.
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