Digital Photography versus Classic Photography
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Digital and classic photography concepts are so confusing that most people have no idea what is what, Some people are simply too young to have owned an old film camera, others don’t care about electronics so much. There are extreme opinions on both sides. The classic photography adepts would burn the digital photography heretics on stakes because they dare alter reality. And not only common camera users enter the debate on this matter. It’s true that most of experienced users of both can see the advantages and disadvantages and can’t tell a winner.
The traditional inclined person would say that everything about digital photography is created to disguise and alter reality in such a way that you aren’t even permitted to speak out your opinions about that image. As examples, let’s take the ‘macro’ function witch every camera has, and the effects it can create depending on the distance between the posing subject and the lenses. Macro is a nice function that is smart enough to distinguish the subject from the surrounding environment and to blur everything else but this subject. Playing with shades and bringing this central areas in the first visual field makes people less critical of the picture and this is considered bad. The extremists of classic photography forgot they are also using flash and now argue flash pictures also. They even say night shots taken with flash return unreal imaged that can be considered as computer developed. These people claim that night pictures must be taken as they come, at moonlight and not by using devices to bring light to a single point.
On the other hand, those who are not as reluctant to new technologies, praise digital photography. They praise the macro as it offers them what they need: a picture with a visible subject. They don’t want different individuals to come and point out other attraction points in their image, they simply want everyone to see what they saw when they looked at a certain scene or person. And the flash is a photographic instrument that made possible so many wonderful and otherwise impossible pictures throughout the years.
In fact, it doesn’t matter what some say, digital photography will never ruin the art behind photos. This concept made possible so many picture variations and attracted so much more people to photography that it can’t be so bad.. photo printing services
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