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August 14, 2008
I'm a big fan of Flickr as a digital archive that is all about sharing photos that we have taken. Flickr is based around the DIY ethic and the power of creative re-use and re-appropriation.
I am puzzled by the antagonism to Flickr's roll out of video. What's up with the photographic community? It destroys the increasing turn to quality content on Flickr? That YouTube is the place for low culture video? Photography stands for art whilst video stands for mass culture?
As art-school and exhibition photographers continue to shoot on film, embrace chiaroscuro and pastel tones and resist prettiness, a competing style of picture has been steadily refined online: the Flickr photograph, which is a digital images that “pop” with the signature tulip colors of Canon digital cameras, often heavily manipulated with digital tricks of Photoshop. Intense postproduction processing is necessary for the big popularity on Flickr---ie', HDR specific technology and tools (Photoshop >CS2 / Photomatix / Maya / HDR cameras). This Flickr tendency tends to deride mainstream art photographers.
The argument is that computer graphics has achieved the goal of photorealism. Now the goal is to go beyond simply matching paper and silver halide. One area of rapid development is in dynamic range and a new crop of technologies using High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR or HDRI) aim to extend the dynamic range of digital imaging technologies way beyond traditional media.
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Gary
some links to interesting Flickr photographers