The sixty-third video of "Short Monologues by Platon Rivellis on Photography and Art" (2nd series, 2017).

After several years of living through the digital revolution in Photography, it's time to take a moment to review and evaluate. In my opinion, digital technology has offered a lot to photography, and I am 90% excited about its existence. Nevertheless, if an artist or photographer wishes to make a technical change, all the tools that photographers, directors, or painters have always had become necessary when a major technical revolution occurs. An artist must adapt because otherwise, they would waste precious time going against the tide, which would neither be beneficial nor harmful; they must adapt and better utilize these tools for their own work. Today, lenses and cameras are cheaper and continually improving, computer software is a godsend, allowing us to easily do things that once were acrobatics. The only remaining issue with digital technology is its excessive ease, lightness, and verbosity. It's great that we can take many photos without cost, but we equally need to adapt to the delete button, and discard photos just as easily. Once, a photograph required time and cost; today, they are extremely easy to take and, just as easily, we must be strict with ourselves and learn to discard them. Therefore, all this is good with two conditions: that the photographer must know when pressing the button that they are making a profound act, as Bresson said, pressing the button is always a yes, sometimes a maybe, regardless if the photo turns out well or not, we all know that nine times out of ten, it's mediocre. And secondly, the photographer should not fall in love with their photos, they should reject them in the sense that they don't exist, and should continually strive to surpass themselves, except if they are professionals; we always speak of the artist photographer who feels that they still have not understood, this keeps them in a state of surprise, a youthfulness useful in the creative process.