Quick Quotes: Alec Soth

"This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter."

Alec Soth

Too much focus on the technology and not enough on the picture and the emotions it generates.  So many software upgrades that we are upgrading before we have come close to mastering the prior version.  Pixel people instead of composing.  I know I have been there!  My guess is that we all have.