Ordinary People VS. Photographers: Experiment Shows How Differently Same Location Looks

Indeed! Btw I "answered" to this article: https://www.boredpanda.com/i-will-show-you-a-little-secret/

My answer to this article: https://www.boredpanda.com/i-will-show-you-a-little-secret/

Thank you very much! :)

Thank you very much! :)

Thank you very much! I will check out your stuff asap! :)

Thanks a lot! :)

I really did not want to advertise my artist page or something ... In the end I just thought that it would make sense, so people see what I mean. :)

I think you're misunderstanding what I mean. Photography is an art form, and there are many aspects that the photographer adjusts in order for a picture to instill emotion and feeling. Without instilling emotions and feelings to the viewer I'm not sure if you can call it art, but that's a philosophical question that doesn't have to do with this. The thing that I don't understand with this particular article is that the "ordinary" person is misrepresented. Even us, "ordinary" people take pictures that "try" to look nice. Even ordinary people take photos that mean something, their pets, pretty scenery, delicious food they ate, or their relatives and family. I don't see "ordinary" people taking pictures arbitrarily of a tree stump or the side of a building. Some of these photos are even blurry like they are purposely not trying to take a decent picture. BTW cooking is a science, especially with foods that you cook in the oven. Follow exact temp, time, and method and result is consistent.

Wow - that was unnecessarily condescending!

I'm not angry about it lol, I just want to be convinced that this article makes sense. You said before that even with the same camera a non photographer would not be able to create anywhere near as artful a picture as someone else. However now you're saying photography is partially science too. Doesn't that mean that if someone spends the time to learn how to use the equipment they can use their own creative eye to create pictures too? And if you can convince me that a good cook uses some sort of special emotional feeling art magic that makes food taste better let me know haha. Good food takes patience, care, and time. I believe anyone can make delicious food with the right directions and ingredients! http://youtu.be/QDprrrEdomM

Also I am not saying equipment does not matter . But people addressing me with the * I can shoot like you if I have your camera* too often for my taste. Its really like somebody is taking my life work and saying oh I can do it myself... euhm...yea... that turns me right on the spot. :) So forgive me if I came to strong on you I didnt mean to be like that. I see this article as show for people who want pretty all the time but cant see the pretty they already have in front of they house... or park or whatever...

Sara I never said normal people (I present myself as normal too hihiih) could never do this picture right.. this article was obviously about shoving people that even normal every day spot can be in eye of photographer turned into jewel and have amazing pictures there... Photography is partialy science (you need to know how to use the equipment that many people dont even know that exist) and partially art... I am not talking about photographers ONLY as people but as Artist they are... Could somebody just take some analog, or some pocket camera and look at some spot like that and see the corp frame out of scenery and shoot it like that ? Hell yea - I really hope so.. but thats the artistic part not many people get.. and if you are not artist photographer you just dont see it for most of the time. Or am I wrong ? technical and art side of pictures need to be combined. So I am coming back to your first comment if I may ... I can shoot this with phone and still have the result of artist

Sara yes but I dont get why are people so angry and so damning.. this post just showed that photographers can find the same place as ordinary people and see something more there... Janice :) whatever you say <3 if you live in this all day long maybe you would understand but its your opinion..

And Sara photography is partially science too, mostly optical and light related. I dont think cooking is just science ... XD and if you cook like that at home I really really feel for your family :P

weird double posting, this comment meant to be somewhere else

I can understand that good photography can be captured with limited equipment. What's weird to me is to compare the "ordinary" person having bad equipment and a professional photographer using top notch equipment. They should give the pro photographer a disadvantage if anything since it's their profession not the other way around. Also, I feel that this article is implying that a professional can magically produce people, children, and flowers out of thin air that somehow doesn't exist in the "ordinary" photos. I really don't think "ordinary" people would purposefully take blurry photos of subjects with no meaning as shown in this article. Why would an "ordinary" person take a blurry photo of a tree stump next to a parking lot, instead of a more engaging and meaningful subject? I think most people's phone picture albums have selfies, friends, flowers, animals, and anything else meaningful enough for them to take a picture of to remember.

These images are photoshopped to the maximum. Please don't be serious. You can clearly see that it is shopped and that is what makes the pictures bad. You can also clearly see the difference between lens focus and added blur. Also since they are the exact same locations you can tell for 100% that the same photographer made his best and worst version himself.

a little defensive there Miroslav?? In the photo of the girl on the stump, the photographer added in foliage, changed the stumps shape (look by her leg, there is a part sticking up that is not on the 'ordinary' photo. That's a bit more than just adjusting lighting or adjusting color balance.