Print Photography And Digital Photography
Remember when pictures were actual physical objects held in your hand, and not just images on a computer screen? Whether you used a disposable camera, an expensive professional camera, or a regular snapshot camera, you ended up with an envelope of printed photos. Now, with digital photography, we often never even print out our photos, and if we do, we don’t take much care in preserving them.
You did not see the pictures as you took them, and often you forgot exactly what shots you took. After a family vacation where you took four or five rolls of film, you would take them into the drugstore and have them developed. If you chose one-hour developing service, you often waited anxiously, checking your black sport watch every five minutes to find out if it was time to pick up the pictures yet.
Looking through the photos was a fun activity and a great way to relive the memories of the vacation. You might come across a funny shot of the elephant at the zoo, or a sill picture of your cousin with the men’s sport watch he bought at the gift shop before a mountain hike. Putting the photos in an album was also a fun thing to do.
Digital cameras show us the photo immediately after it is taken, so we lose the element of surprise. Often times, if we are not satisfied with a shot, we erase it and take a new one. This may give us greater control over the finished product, but it means that we lose the fun of discovering that photo we forgot was ever taken.
Not only have we lost the surprise, but we have also lost the necessity of physical photo albums. More often than not, we simply take the digital camera, hook it up to our computer, and transfer the photos onto a CD, onto our hard drive, or onto a social networking site.
While this allows us to share the photos immediately with people who are not in the same physical location, it takes away the experience of sitting on the couch and passing around a photo album. Crowding around a computer screen is more difficult and much less conducive to relaxed conversation.
There are definitely ways that we can combine the advantages of digital photography with the good aspects of print photography. You can have your digital photos printed; you just have to use one of the machines that they have in drugstores with photo developing service. These machines allow you to crop, adjust and print digital photos. If you buy a few scrapbooking tools, you can create a beautiful print album from your digital photos.
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