The impact of digital technology on photography
WEEK 12 PRESENTATION
Karolina Debowczyk
Alecia Ostermann
Hua Bai
Anastassia Mitrofanova
How digital technology changed the role of photography in the society?
Digital photography has made precision and capturing reality so much easier. Every moment can be photographed exactly how it is seen through the digital window and allows which to see your image as soon as it is taken. This spares the fear of not capturing the moment you wanted to and allows you to view the image before you print it. The readiness and accessibility of the photos has also made a huge impact on society. With digital photography, you are one click away from uploading your photographs onto your computer for your viewing pleasure as soon as the pictures are taken. Social networks such as Facebook and Flickr have also evolved digital photography. These websites allow you to upload your photographs in a span of seconds for the whole world to see. Digital photography has become a way of recording your life.
Through the 2 pictures below you can see that through digital photography we are able to capture every single immediate moment, the exact colors of the leaves, how the direct light hits each branch. With the lions fighting you there is no blurriness you can see the grass being ruffled, and the emotion the lions have. The role of digital photography goes far beyond just capturing a moment. It allows you to show the world exactly what you are seeing at that very moment. Digital photography has also brought along other technology that can be used to alter photographs at home such as Photoshop. We can edit anything from lighting to the color of our shirts with the click of a button.
What has been the impact of digital photography on journalism?
Digital photography digital photography improves the timeliness of journalism. After capturing a photograph it takes seconds for photojournalists to send out an image to their publisher. Digital photography has eased the photojournalism profession. A photographer can be capturing a scene from Japans devastating conditions and send it out to a newspaper in Toronto as soon as it is taken. Also with digital photography we do not need to worry about bad quality pictures. We can retake it after we find there are some mistakes. Memory is also a huge impact on photography and photojournalism. Memory cards hold thousands of pictures therefore space is not an issue when it comes to capturing the perfect image.Though there are a lot of pros when it comes to digital photography and journalism there can also be some issues with authenticity. A lot of newspapers have put in guidelines on how their photos are to be published to reassure readers and any naysayers that what they are seeing isn’t false. Through digital technology there are so many ways to improve a shot. A lot of gossip sites and magazines get criticized for altering photos to seem more or less flattering, sometimes even resulting in lawsuits.
Photographer Birte Person captured these spectacular shots as the tiger and five others did the closest thing they could to hunting at Singapore Zoo.
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