Photography - Art and Science

Photography has made over a century worth of progress since the 1800s, and though digital photography is fairly new and brings about its own set of rules and quirks, it still relies on the basic principles that have been developed over the past couple hundred of years. Basic principles of exposure, lighting, and even simple composition and framing have their roots in these old traditions. Even fads like Lomography (which I just think is a marketing sham) didn't change that. Which brings me to an important point about photography; it is an area that combines disciplines from both art and science. Pretty logical and obvious, you'd think!

The problem is that a lot of people tend towards either extreme; on the Internet I see a lot of groups discussing equipment to no end while having little to show in terms of photographs. On the other extreme, I see photos trying to impress as art but not quite making it. Actually, I lie, it's more like not even close to being art.