Becoming a hobby

Hey everybody,

Everyday you will hundreds off tourists wandering around your city with their cameras, phones, selfie sticks etc. and you don't even realise that they are there or how many photographs are being taken around you.
There is a fine line between calling yourself an amateur photographer and taking a few nice photographs on your phone every now and then.
in the 1900's if you owned a camera (usually a Kodak brownie) then you would be considered an amateur photographer.
Now there are different clubs people join.
People take classes to learn more, there are always new techniques to taking a photograph, different filters you can add and ever since 1987 when Thomas Knoll who lives in Michigan USA invented photoshop, I believe that photoshop has effected photography in both a positive and negative way, I think in a positive way it has because now it can bring fantasies alive and can make things even more beautiful then they already are eg.


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Now because of photoshopping photography people can now get paid to photoshop and this has become a hobby of its own. You can clearly see hobbies have branched off from photography certain ones such as:
-Collecting cameras, or collecting photographs
-Taking photos of specific things, such as plants, bridges, skys,
-Taking photos using the same colour for each one
-Photoshopping

Back in the 1900's amateur photographers joined groups to discuss how photography should be considered an art, because there were so many people that didn't think so because you weren't creating anything from scratch like with a brush and paint, so these amateur photographers wanted to discuss it together, and this led them to meet up and take photographs as a group and share their own individual work, making it a worldwide hobby that is carried on today.