Today I want to talk about mobile photography and photography in general. Or rather about how the once magical and almost magical process of saving time and implement it into something tangible that you can hold in your hands and to keep the memory, slowly turned into a familiar routine mechanical action. Action to remove unwanted frames in the basket.
If you look at the download statistics photos on popular photo service Flickr relative popularity of devices for the past two or three years, the leader is unreachable iPhone. Here’s an example – 14 419 owners of iPhone 5 downloaded to the service yesterday for 427,075 pictures! And this data is only for one day and only on one model of iPhone.
Popularization and accessibility of photography, explosive leap of technology, anyone can shoot at any time and what they like, just get the phone out of his pocket. The once-a man with a camera is genuine interest and respect, now a man with a phone in his hand, “photographing” a cup of cappuccino is almost disgusted. Photos of the once lovingly laid in a beautiful album, carefully pasting the little corners, photo cards taken out over the holidays, watch, and remember, let them tear. Now thousands of images from the category of “just in case” is stored in the “fotostrime,” and, frankly, I do not remember when I last looked there.
Whereas before, to make the shot, you had to spend at least half a day, and the possession of specific knowledge and skills required by default, it is now – the main thing to know where the round button. Another vital ability to quickly delete unwanted pictures to make room for a new batch.
Perhaps silly nostalgia, remember the past, and retrogradnichat grafomanstvovat – argue with Moore’s Law is useless and meaningless. However, the nine million iPhones sold in a couple of days, again generate the flow of nine billion photos uploaded to the “cloud.” You wonder – did anyone see them?
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