Smartphone Photography in the Digital Age
It all started with a smartphone. The way a phone can click and capture our friends and family People all over the world have new access to tools to create a new way of story telling. This immediate accessibility has given people a new way to capture new moments as they happen.
The quality of smartphone camera has changed and advanced throughout the years which creates a more compelling way to really love smartphone photography. They’re new features like portrait mode, night vision, and even new manual settings that allows people all over the world to create new ways of telling their own stories through a photo. “Photography is a form of art that involves capturing images and showcasing them to the viewers. With the constant improvement of technology, it has been advanced in execution and reformed as an art, especially with the modern smartphones.” Nguyen, Van (2018).
With new tools of editing in apps, users can now make their images more enhanced after taking them. There are apps like VSCO, Lightroom, and Snapseed that allows people to change their photos in a much easier way and this blurs the line with amateur and professional photography. It gives users the opportunity to play around with photography much more simple way. Smartphone photography is a huge reflect of our current new digital age - fast paced, accessible, and always changing. It allow people to capture and share our world in a much more fast way. IT gives people a way of expressing themselves and it continues to advance. It’s very exciting to see how smartphone photography will continue to shap the way we document our lives on a day-to-day basis.
Photography in a digital world.
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Since the introduction to the Iphone camera, Apple has gradually enhanced their camera systems. After introducing the Apple ProRaw which allows people to capture different images in a new and RAW format which does provide a grater flexibility in post-processing while keeping the original benefits of photography.
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DSLR cameras came from bridging the gap between film and digital photography and it offers a high-resolution images with low noises and excellent color reproduction.
DSLRs set the standard for professional digital photography and inspired the development of mirrorless cameras, which offer lighter, compact bodies and advanced digital capabilities.
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Platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat have made photography open to all individuals, making photos into a way of new self-expression and communication between individuals.
Social media's way for always on-the-go content has made smartphone manufacturers to really improve camera quality, enabling anyone to produce high-quality images
“The first, from about 1994 to 2009, was primarily the transformation of film-based equipment into their digital counterparts. Now, in the second phase, photography is starting to change into something completely different, with forces like social networks, cell phone cameras and computational photography changing the business, the methods and the use of photographs.”
