the matter is not the use of applied effects per se, but people thinking that just because they are applying an effect, they are actually 'making great shots'. In programmed digital effects all the aesthetical choices were already made by the programmer, the only thing left to the user is to choose from pre-stablished options - that's not at all equal to artistical liberty. Applied filters in apps such as iphone create indeed a padronization. But that doesn't mean that there can't be any king of originality in digital editing, or that an edited photograph doesn't qualify as photography or even that digital is worse than film. This kind thinking tends to ignore that all photography is discourse, even if it is a visual discourse.
On Your Beautiful Pictures Are Stupid: Against Trendy Digital Photography
the matter is not the use of applied effects per se, but people thinking that just because they are applying an effect, they are actually 'making great shots'. In programmed digital effects all the aesthetical choices were already made by the programmer, the only thing left to the user is to choose from pre-stablished options - that's not at all equal to artistical liberty. Applied filters in apps such as iphone create indeed a padronization. But that doesn't mean that there can't be any king of originality in digital editing, or that an edited photograph doesn't qualify as photography or even that digital is worse than film. This kind thinking tends to ignore that all photography is discourse, even if it is a visual discourse.