Digital Photography

While an image through a lens can capture any moment, at times the image isn't a true representation of the moment that was captured. The biggest difference between analog photography and digital photography is the ability to alter the image digitally when you are doing digital photography. While the retouched images can have a little extra pizzaz, reveal a little more, or essentially be a better image the retouched images begin to loose integrity.

When you "add computer graphic elements" to digital photography, the picture isn't what it once was. Nowadays, any photo has the ability to be digitally altered so you never really know what is a pure photo that is free from alteration. This touches on the most recent conflict of the use of photoshop when it comes to magazines and models. When photoshop is used for shrinking and altering someone's body, our perception of how we should look begins to transform from what a natural body looks like to what someone using a computer thinks someone's body should ideally look like. 

The photo alteration is altering our perception of what is truly reality. Analog photography does not have the ability to be digitally altered so the pictures that are taken are the most pure. Pure pictures provide the viewer with the most genuine representation of reality. You can trust that analog photography is not a misrepresentation of what you are looking at. As discussed in the article, with digital photography you have to always second guess if the image is altered and if so, what is altered?

Further, digital photography is leading to the increase in skill with a computer, but can lead to less vision or insight when it comes to true photography. Now to be a good photographer you have to be able to edit the photos on the computer efficiently. With the technology that is available today it is possible to transform almost any photograph into an outstanding photograph. However, with analog photography the photographer has to have the creative vision to create an outstanding image with just a lens. 

Digital photography is completely altering how images are being constructed and how we perceive reality. Thanks to digital communication our artistic vision and our perception of reality is being altered forever.