Gotta start somewhere... 2009-05-15
With all the cool ways of taking pictures these days, we're losing the value of good photography. Anyone can point a camera or camera phone at someone and get an image, but what about if you want to share that image later in life? As I retouch the three photos of my grandparents' wedding, it's fun to see them at such a young age and imagine what life was like for them by just looking at the photo. It's sad to think that there's a generation of couples that were married in just the past three years that won't have anything to show their grandkids. They had a friend or relative take their photos with their digital camera. There might be happy-accident photos, but the majority of them won't be seen more than twice, and definitely won't be printed on photo paper that would last more than 3 months.In my grandparents' photo, I can see the expressions on their faces, the lines and details in their clothes, even the details in the background where they were married. I've seen modern wedding photos...candids of the couple from the side, spots so bright you can't see the intricate lace on the dress, spots so black you can't see where the jacket ends and the pants begin, blurry motion shots, hundreds of basically the same photo or unknown people, and wide ranges of colors.
I think they call this Photojournalism.
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