Last summer I ran into the first photography teacher I had in the States. He was visiting London and we sat down over a pint. We spoke about the state of the photography industry, the Instagramification of consumer photography and the future of digital photography. And while we agreed that digital photography has been a good thing for both the industry and photographers, one negative effect it brought was the technology's tendency to turn people into lazy photographers.
In the mid-'90s when I was a teenager I first learned to shoot on film. Rolls of 36 exposures were my norm and I chose each shot judiciously as film was expensive to buy and develop. And while I welcomed digital photography -- as it lowered the cost of being a p