Okay, today let's talk about rules and restrictions in photography. No, no I don't think about technical rules and restrictions ... it's all about the way photography gets handled in the community and between photographers (I talked about one of these aspects in my blog on September 4th 2012, CATEGORIZE IT!).
Please have a look at the image below. Taken last weekend at the zoo in Munich. The Gorilla baby is 9 weeks old and the best attraction at the moment. The image is edited so it shows my impression of that situation. And here the fact. The image is a no-go for any wildlife photographer because it is taken in the zoo where everyone could get such an image. Okay, I understand. Getting images of such animals is much more complex, exhausting and cost intensiv if taken in the real wilderness. So the converse argument would be that real wild life photography only accepts images that are a combination out of several aspects: quality of the image (artistic value), area where the image has been taken, amount of effort to get that image. If I would take the same image of the Gorilla baby after a two day march through the jungle of Uganda I would be the king. No complaints, no rants, just a statement. An image seems to be more than what is shown in the image, it's the whole process.
Another example? Streetphotography only accepts cameras with a fixed lens between 35 and 50 mm. If you shoot, even it is a cool portrait, with a zoom lens you are banned from the street photographer community. Mobile photography is accepted as the camera lenses are so short you have to come close to your subject ... that is the only reason why.
You really thought Photography is somet artistically, boundless activity? Wrong!
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