Concerts are popular as well for recording
and taking pictures of to show everyone else that you are having a great time.
The issue with this, though, is that in the process of taking photos or videos,
poor quality at that, the viewer isn’t enjoying the show that they are at, they
won’t remember the feel of being there, they’ll just have blurry, choppy photos
and videos to remember it by. I know people who go on vacation that don’t enjoy
it because they are too busy taking pictures of everything they do. I
understand that it is good to have something to remember it by, but a million
pictures can be too much if you want to enjoy experience.
Erin Elizabeth Pelley, one of my classmates,
wrote in her blog post Looking at the
World Through a Filter (And not a Great One) about this issue. In her
scenario, she was trying to take a picture of a bird to send to her father. She
was so focused on zooming in and getting the best angle that she didn’t stop
and look at the bird without the phone in between her and the bird. She ended
up not getting a good photo and couldn’t even describe the bird to her father
when he asked about it. Another classmate, Alyssa Vossler, brought up a topic
in her blog post, Pictures &
Photography, that hit close to home for me. She experienced being the
photographer of the family, always the one to take photos at events instead of
enjoying them. I am that person in my family. I understand what it’s like when
you can’t have fun and enjoy the wedding you’re at because you’re the
photographer, or the birthday party for a young cousin, or your little brother’s
graduation party. Sometimes you can’t choose what you are the photographer for,
or get the choice to do it or not. I’ve gotten a little off topic there, but
they were important ideas that needed to be shared. Now that we know more about
why people take pictures, we can look at the alterations of the photos.
Photos can easily be
altered. Filters, editing tools for lighting, and advanced photo shop
techniques can change what a picture looks like. I am the type of person who
will take a photo on my camera and that will be that. I won’t change things
unless those I am taking photos for want a specific theme, say a vignette on
their photos or other design elements. I am a firm believer that if you take
the photo right to begin with there is nothing that needs to be done about it.
However, I do understand why people do edit photos. Let’s take a minute and
look at Instagram. Instagram is one of the top social media platforms for
students in both high school, college, and beyond. Currently, there are 40
filters to choose from on Instagram. Wow, that’s a lot. Those are just the
presets, too. You can take a raw image, and make it look like 41 different
images without much work whatsoever. You can easily change the lighting, tone,
highlights, lowlights, sharpen the image, and straighten the image in as little
as 10 seconds. Bring in photo shop and you can really make an image different
than what it originally was. What happens to the aura then? You are putting up
a fake aura to make the image seem like something it is not.
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