My friend, the photographer Paul Clarke has an uncanny eye for detail. Every single shot he publishes is beautiful - they capture life in a way that I don't have the language to describe. I'm quite content to point my phone at someone, use the default settings, and grab a snap. My photos lack composition, clarity, focus, mise-en-scène, proper lighting and a thousand-and-one details that I've never even thought of. Paul has published an essay about official photographs of politicians. In it, he …
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    1 month ago

    From my anedoctal understanding, people only really start caring about quality when they become invested in something. Of course most people have a threshold of “Lowest acceptable quality” for most things such as music, comics, movies, games; but unless you know what to look out for, you really won’t get, or maybe even care, about all the things that makes ABC better than XYZ.