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CLMN | Photography Today

18/02/2013

I was going through a couple of my old pictures. Pictures that my dad took a long time ago, with his analogue Zenit camera. A camera which now lies on a shelf in front of me, and probably is already mine. These pictures are indeed the captures of the moments in the past. Impossible to repeat or fix.

Nowadays, however, we have so many opportunities to store the moments of our lives with digital photography. Moreover, besides storing pictures, we are also able to edit them. Make our past moments prettier and glossier than it actually was.
Although I also think that digital photography is a great addition to my life and it opens up so many doors to become an ‘artist’ or to get closer to your friends and family (even while being far away from them), I miss that feeling of imperfection which you get while watching pictures taken with an analogue camera. That excitement - you never knew what’s gonna come out of your film.

If you don’t know well how the light and photography work together (what ISO, exposure, shutter speed, etc. you need), your unprofessionalism can lead to so many wrong things with your shot, and yet make it so pretty. The good thing is that the recent boom of the digital camera is calming down. Digital camera, as a perfect tool to capture moments fast and be able to edit the shots on the site, seems to be not enough . Everyone can do that. Everyone can be a photographer with their Canon or Nikon.
But people want to be special and unique. Perhaps that’s why we still get back to analogue photography by bringing Lomography back to vivid life and using the digital photography to mimic instant analogue pictures with Instagram and other apps.

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