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Photography is absolutely an art form. No doubt about it. There are about a billion different ways you can take a picture and only a couple of them produce truly magnificent photographs.
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Personally I do, because it's not just point-and-click. We try to look for the best angles, the best subjects. That's art.
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I consider it an art form. It's not really a point and click thing.
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I consider it an art form, i love taking photos of landscapes around where i live.:-)+
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id say its art for people who cant draw/paint. no offence meant, just that they have a concept that they personally can express better through photography.
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It is an art form. Just because you point and click, does not mean the composition will be good. Additionally, if you develop your own photographs you can do artistic things during the development and printing process.
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Photography can be considered an art form most definitely.....but it all depends on the photograph.
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For the most part, not art, no. Was at a dentist some time ago picking up my wife. While waiting I picked up a photography magazine, which did have beautiful pictures, btw. The photo of the year was taken in February 2002 at the Daytona 500. Some guy in the audience took a photo of the huge crowd, most of which were holding up small American flags. He then said he touched it up using PhotoShop. I don't get it. He took a photo ANYBODY could have taken, then touched it up a tad using his computer. It's not an art. Maybe a skill, maybe. Nice picture, yes, but I could have taken it myself if I happened to have bought a ticket anybody could have bought and attended the event 200,000 attends, many with cameras. I always get a kick when someone takes a photo of a statue or whatever and calls that art. No, the one who made the sculpture is the artist, you just took a picture of somebody elses art.
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It's not just point and click unless that's all you want out of it. There are issues of exposure, framing, composition... depth of field and focus... and if you do your own development and printing you can further control your final outcome. I dare anyone to look at a giant Ansel Adams museum print and tell me he was not an artist.
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It is an art form. Same as in painting, it captures a moment and freezes and preserves it in time. Not everyone can make a artistic photo. There are many factors that have to be considered: Composition, theme, lighting, exposure, etc. Same as with other art forms, sometimes the simpler direct examples work, but in most cases you need knowledge and mastery of the subject to excel.
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I think its art. Of course someone just pointing and clicking isn't really considered art to me. .but, if you are involved with the picture then I think it is art just as much as a painting or drawing.
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Well, thanks for making me think about this one! My first reaction was "art" .. thinking in particular of Ansel Adams and his wonderful body of work. But, I also know of some people who take existing images and "blur them" digitally and call it a "derivative work" or even original art. Hmmmmm. Then I read all the answers here so far .. so all the "photography is art" responses .. and simply99's "photography as skill (craft?) vs art. Guess you could be a great machinist, but that isn't art. Point and shoot isn't art. But what of those who "do" think of concept, design, technique, style, lighting, color and "create" such as what Ansel Adams did? That's certainly "art"! Don't know. Maybe there's some kind of line btw camera / creator vs computer / creator? My head hurts! LOL Thanks for the question. :)
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I took these pictures and edited them. I think that makes it art. Everything can be art. Engineering, home decorating, landscaping. If it takes you outside the box, outside of normal thought, I consider that art in some way.
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To response stringbabe answer about is the photography consider as an art form, I want to say maybe for Ansel Adams or other really excellent expert of photography is an exceptions. His pictures is excellent. But a lot of people that consider them self as a photographer these days and think of them as an artist is really bogus! Why? Because their creation was help by all this high tech gadget fine camera, and event though sometimes their picture is not even something that you can consider as art that worth to look at. It's so different than an artist that doing paintings, or drawings, acting, musicians or even fashion designer. These people are the real artist, that require the real talent and quality of their crafts, by number of years of work, that they provides and creates such a beautiful arts form that people actually can enjoy visually, audibly and physically without much of help of a high tech gadget that you can play it around as long as you got a hang of it or got the niche of how to use it.
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For many it is just a "point and click" activity, but it can be considered a true art form and I can appreciate a good photograph like the next person can. Not easy to do.
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Is painting the inside of a home with a roller an art form? Photography could be producing ART, but most people just point and shoot and what they create isn't ART!
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It is a definite art form and requires talent. It's far more than just point and click. I don't think I could take a decent shot to save my life. My hat is off to people who have the eye for it.
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