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Originally Posted by churchfcrules
so if you are walking along with your camera, and capture a moment of time, with no forethought into the image, is it art?
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I think that even with a lot of forethought, photography is not necessarily art. I consider a small proportion of my work to be artistic, but not actual art.
In my opinion, for a photo to be art, it needs to be planned in advance with some sort of pre or post processing in mind - whether using filters, dark room techniques or photoshop. But even then, that doesn't necessarily make it art. On my wall, I've got a firework display done in Whitby. It passes all my criteria for "art" - it was planned in advance, took time to get right, was always going to be photoshopped. If it is art, it's not good art.