Assignment 1 - Photo Journal 1

In the early days portraits where one of a kind; exclusive, portraits where made for wealthy families and highly valued they would be passed down from generation to generation for there was only one copy of each photo. In the past there were only a few people who could afford a photographer, and a fewer who could call themselves a photographers. Taking photos with early day cameras was extremely complicated some say almost a science. Daguerreotype and Calotype photography were introduced, both methods used many chemicals and salt water, and many hours to develop a photo, that could have been horrible eg, head titled too much, eyes closed, blurry and so on. A photographer took photography as there profession and devoted their time to taking photos. Photographers were hired by nobility there subjects where mainly people, more specifically portraits of nobility. 

However, now almost anybody could call himself or herself a photographer, technology has advanced so much that you see five-year-old taking pictures. We now can take as many pictures as we desire, delete the bad ones and take some more. Everybody can manage to take a great photo once in a while, because everything is the subject. Any subject you can think of has an image available somewhere; it can range from a bear, fruit, landscape, shoes, a toothbrush, even a mint anything goes. Everyday people use photos to express themselves and capture moments to remember, most of us have albums and a camera with us 24/7 (camera phones) cameras are tinny nowadays, even on phones there is editing software for the photos, than you can send it directly to the internet within mater of seconds for the world to view.

But don’t get me wrong there are still photographers like back in the day that take photos as there profession and devote there time to capturing beautiful images, photography is just more simple now and is opened to everybody. Plus photos don’t even have to be perfect with the use of technology like Photoshop, you don’t even need a background you can import your subject into a beautiful background off the Internet. It is possible to mesh images together to create something only the imagination can come up with. We can also soften blemishes, change the lighting, fix red-eyes, air brush skin tone, add in make-up add hair and different eye colors.  In the past photography was a science; now a day it seems to be everybody’s hobby.

If you ask me thats a huge change!

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