As for the quote "2005 Nokia camera phone", let's see how much that stands. Take a quick quiz if you can recognise which photography is professional and which one is amateur: https://steemit.com/photofeed/@mcertic/can-you-guess-which-photography-is-professional-and-amateur
Looking forward to see interesting results :)
It has nothing to do with "Amateur vs. Professional" it has to do with "Beautiful photography vs. Flood of meaningless snaps". Photofeed and the discussion around it are trying to direct people who are looking for photography as art to places they can see that. Since the photography tag on steemit encompasses all photography, even that which is not artistic, photofeed aims to direct that.
@dexter-k since none of 'pro photographers' had guts to try their luck on the test above, it could mean only two things:
a) No-one there has any clue about photography.
b) No-one there want's the use their precious power to interact anyhow with new accounts. (read it's about money not the photography).
Whatever it is, the bottom line is, tag is about making money, not sharing art :)
The way i see it, is a bunch of people who are going to upvote whatever flood of meaningless snaps it found, as long as it brings curation rewards, it will be called 'pro'. :D
Anyone with large amount of SP can took a photo of anything meaningless, and got $100 there. He is automatically going to be a pro with tons of upvotes :)
I think you are misunderstanding. Again this has nothing to do with pro vs amateur, it’s simply a way of defining and categorizing the photography tag so that users who post specific types of photography can have a place to have their work seen. But if you don’t like it, just don’t use it. I’m regards to your quiz, there are a myriad of reasons why no one answered it, probably most just didn’t see it or don’t care to be drawn into some debate about “pro vs amateur”. Personally I wouldn’t say any of those photos are “professional grade.” The first is my favourite, but it looks like an Instagram photo. The second has a strange crop and edit, which probably means it was taken with an slr. But it has a lot of noise and compression banding in the greys of the clouds, it looks like the contrast was pushed too hard in editing and it was exported as a mid to low quality jpeg. The third image is just poor quality. It looks like there should be grass on the bottom of the frame, but it is so blurry and low res you can’t really tell. It may have been cropped in a lot, or it may have been taken with a very low res camera, but it is blurry enough to make me feel like it is just out of focus. Again, not pro quality in my opinion. So in answer to your quiz I don’t think any of those photos are “professional” but I like the first one the most as an artistic photo, and that is what matters to me. I don’t care about pro or amateur, I care about beautiful photos.
Thanks @dexter-k Your answer proved my point to some level. I said that 'to same level' because you used 'In my opinion'. The one of these is really a work of very recognised professional photographer, and it's not the one you liked the most. The one you liked most is taken with iphone5 i think.
As for the debate, the reasons i put the post are endless debates on the subject, so we can disqualify that as a possibility. (people don't want to get into debate). Endless debates started prior to post.
Not visible enough - you are absolutely right. And that's the whole point I am trying to say.
The worst photo I was able to find ever (and i really tried to find a bad one), totally pixelized, that I posted with account few digits long SP, took more then $300 in an hour. And not a single person complained about quality.
Don't get me wrong, the whole reason I am debating is for the good cause of saving art from being valued through artist net worth.
That sociologic phenomena managed to ruin the Renaissance, and makes very little chances for Steemit not to suffer the same :)