I won't go to far to say Sucker Punch invented or created this artistic photography in the game market because others game already had it in one way or other.

What Sucker Punch did was popularize this feature... together with the easy way to share pics in the PS4 (just needs to hit a button) they are creating a new tendency in the games.

I expect more games to have some kind of Photo Mode... it will be standard in any game in the future.

Think like the same thing when the Cellphones started to have cameras with easy upload do internt... everybody started to take pictures from anywhere... after that apps like Instragam got popular... gaming photos is following the same.

i wouldnt say they invented it, but they certainly brought it to a whole new level.

Didn't expect an agree there 

:)

Those are pictures built from scratch and are not the result of a phographer walking around a virtual world and applying real world experience to the virtual world. Perhaps 'digital photography' is the wrong way to epress what I mean though ... Just like you would in the real world, Infamous players are looking for photo opportunities and some are achieving amazing things. AGAIN though, I'm not talking about graphics, I'm talking about personal intent and emotional connection with what you are trying to achieve.

Damn it, I can't find a way of expressing what I mean. This is the first time EVER we've seen this. Now if you could perhaps try to understand why I say 'EVER' you'd get what I mean. This is TRUE photography (PHOTOGRAPHY) in a virtual world. It's NOT just screenshots or screenshots with filters and different angles.

Now that's a post I can agree with! Indeed, I am already looking forward to printing out beautiful screen grabs for my study. I can just imagine the moments in MGS5 that I'll be capturing. This ease-of-use of this feature sets it apart big time.

Your camera-phone analogy is a very good one :)

I get what you're saying.

No, you're just not getting it. It's not your fault, it's my fault for failing to express what I mean more clearly. There is a freedom to express yourself. This isn't the same as an artist creating an image to  look like a photograph, this is individuals with their own view of the virtual world being enabled to capture that view perfectly.

Ok, I'll put in a really pretentious way:

When I look at those photos I don't think 'wow, that rock looks so detailed' I think 'wow, this guy has really captured what a rock is.'

This picture says absolutely nothing about the game but it does say everything about the photographer:

Edit: My mistake, they are good examples of what I mean.

Like someone else said, Wind Waker already did it. I get what you mean, but one can do the same thing in Wind Waker, and especially Wind Waker HD. The same person who took those Infamous photos would have the same freedom of expression and movement in WW HD, which came out earlier. The only thing that can't be done ingame is the editing, which shouldn't matter because anyone serious about their "game photography" could use a real editing program with more options than any video game could have.

^^^^(This one actually might be a screen shot)^^^^

All exept one of those are taken with the in game "pictobox" camera. (Also, the images are super compressed for some reason, but they're usually in 1080p)

Lol. Had the same reaction. Also the jeans too were blindingly realistic. Very nice.