Anonymous
Did you know that photography is technology? Invented in the 19th Century, it provided more detail than traditional methods of taking portraits (eg: painting). (Relying on a camera obscura meant you were a bad artist in those days).
As technology has matured, so has photography. What once required masterful finesse to adjust exposure, speed, etc of a camera is now computed automatically. My SONY takes near perfect photos.
Photography is a vertically-scalable artform; the better our technology becomes, the better the quality of our photos will be.
What do I mean by vertically-scalable? This man uses a laser-guided shutter with his camera to capture bees mid-flight:
His photos are breathtaking. They are pictures the world has never seen before, all thanks to his reliance on technology.
Does this make him a bad photographer? No.
The technology of photography is merely a way to capture an artists’ vision or observation. It does not make you a bad photographer.
That said, there are certainly bad photographs. Technology might take a perfect photo, but it will not compose it for you. It will not make your work meaningful. It will not capture beauty.
Composure, meaning and beauty are all subjective. They require the focus of an artists’ eye, without which is the reason for bad photographers. Not reliance on technology—which is the reason for photography in the first place—you idiot.
