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Facts
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Opinions
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Words associated with photography
Photography is something that is too common today. Everyone is able to access a camera and everyone abuses a camera. Too many people use the social media to post pictures of selfies and their food that they are about to eat. We do not appreciate photography and the beauty within it. Photography should be subtle to make it more real. Photography is something that should be used to inform people and to help them understand the beauty behind it. Photography takes a lot of looking around before you learn to see the extraordinary.
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. Martin Parr
Today we snap as many photos every two minutes as humanity as a whole did in the 1800s. In a survey undertaken last year, 76 per cent of people from Britain were seen to be drunk in photos in which they were tagged. Which is your best side? Your left? A study by Kelsey Blackburn and James Schriillo from Wake Forest University found that the left side of peoples’ faces are perceived and rates as more aesthetically pleasing than the right. The most expensive camera ever sold was a rare 1923 Leica camera, which went for $2.8 million at auction in Vienna. There are 250 million photos uploaded to Facebook daily. Instagram trails behind with around 40 million mobile uploads a day.
The total number of photos on Facebook is 10,000 times more than the total number of photos in the U.S. Library of Congress, which document U.S. history since the beginning of time. It’s estimates that on a whole, humans have taken over 3.8 TRILLION photos The oldest known photo with a person in the shot shows a man in Paris getting his shoes shined. In 2012, 37% of the images in the US were captured using camera phones, but by 2015, that number is expected to be 50%. Before the digital age, the US government was taking spy photographs of the Soviet Union. and other machinery.
Is photography becoming less meaningful? Are there too many accessories that hinder the meaning of photography. Becky Silveira: I think photography isn’t becoming less meaningful, but that it is becoming easier for every day people to take good quality photographs that look similar to professional ones.The photos people take are still meaningful but more common I guess Hattie Windley: Yes definitely! Nothing beats a family photo album full of printed pictures from film. People don’t appreciate how photographs are supposed to immortalise a point in time to look back on and reminisce. Lo Wilcock: Nah I think selfies are fun, and photos with friends that aren’t professional are sometimes more meaningful than shitty posed photos but that’s just my opinion! I just think there’s more opportunities and different ways to capture a moment now. Cameron James Wolfe: I agree with lo but I think photography is too easily accessible nowadays and everyone thinks they’re a photographer Ellie palmer: Personally I think its become more meaningful as I’ve grown up because seeing all these beautiful pictures online of places people travel to just reminds me how amazing the small things really are. However, maybe it is too easy to access but that’s not necessarily a bad. thing.
Josh Tupper: Still meaningful and arguably more due to the introduction of social media.Yes it is more accessible but I wouldn’t say its easy to use. Jess Harris: Yes it is less meaningful because of the amount of access that people have to it. Anyone can share on social medias and anyone can edit the pictures therefore we do not know what is real and what is fake. Photographers are getting less recognition for their work because anyone can do it. Jake Barlow : Partly, I mean the advancement in high definition technology makes it easier to access however its down to the photographer and his skill to capture the image and show their talent. Lauren Farnden: No, the fact people even take photos is to have them for memeries and you can share your happiness and experiences with friends and family that weren’t there at the time. Elliot Jennings: I think photography is an art in itself and shows off the beauty of the world. However, I believe the improvement in day to day technology whilst expanding the discipline also reduces its level of quality. Milan Ozegovic: Yes nowadays we have so many cameras and almost everyone has some sort of camera so photography is common unlike back in the day when not a lot of people had cameras so any sort of photography would be seen as a memory and something more rare. But I still think its such a meaningful way of communication as everyone can relate to it. Sam Khalati: I think its becoming more common because more people have access to it and therefore making it less meaningful.
Umar Aslam: I think its more meaningful because we can save more images and look back at them on a wider spread. Social media like Facebook use a timeline therefore we can access that timeline in a further date and remember the times we had during those years. Natasha Rushton: I would say artistic photography hasn’t lost any significance due to contemporary art moving at such a fast pace but generally photography is becoming more meaningful due to technical advances. Jacob McDermott: I think photography is becoming less meaningful because when we were younger we would appreciate the pictures being taken so that they would be kept for memory. Nowadays everyone takes pictures of everything and it has lost its importance. Nathan Pershad: Photography is becoming less meaningful because we don’t appreciate it anymore.We are going to be the last generation that have our baby photos taken with an old camera that would have to be printed. Jamie Rippon: Its become less meaningful but still has significance. It is also very easy to access and this makes it harder to become more individual and more unique to the art industry and this makes it harder to get a job
94% more total views on average are attracted by content containing compelling images than content without images. 67% of consumers consider clear, detailed images to be very important and carry even more weight than the product information, full description, and customer ratings.
NikonUSA The number of photos taken exploded from 86B in 1999 to 380B in 2011. 300 million photos are uploaded to facebook daily. 70% of Facebook activity is based on photos.
Photo album contributed to 180% 60% of consumers are more likely average increase in Facebook ento consider or contact a business gagement. whose images appear in local search results. Every second, about 26 photos are uploaded to Instagram. 37% increase in engagement is experienced when Facebook posts 67% of moms take pictures of their include photographs. kids weekly or more often through phone. 14% increase in pageviews are seen when press releases contain a pho- 9% of moms take pictures of their tograph. (They climb to 48% when kids every day. both photographs and videos are included.) 83% of digital camera photographers use a computer to edit or 40% of people will respond better Photoshop their photos. to visual information than plain text. Research reveals that there are 4.8 90% of information transmitted to billion mobile users but only 4.2 the brain is visual, and visuals are billion people with a toothbrush. processed 60,000X faster in the brain than text.
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Written and illustrated by Daniel Carter