Photo by Peter West
As our friend Tatian Hopper writes in her introduction to the YouTube video “What Digital Photography Took Away” we’ve lost something important when it comes to digital photography.
“Grain. Blur. Light leaks. Imperfect exposures. These are all things that digital photographers fix instantly or even delete. But what if those weren’t mistakes?”
She writes: “Analog photography forced photographers to do differently: how limitation, unpredictability and physcial processes shaped the way photographers saw. Because this isn’t really about film vs digital. it’s about attention, intention and whether removing friction made us better….or just faster.”
With digital editing programs like DXO Photo Lab 9 (which I now own) capable of changing the soul of a photo is there still a place for analog images which in their imperfection perhaps show us a more real and honest world?
Watch What Digital Photography Took Away and ask yourself: did we lose something when we went digital?
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