There is a huge difference between the photography now, and the photography two decades ago. In those times, Print photography was the most popular, while today it’s digital photography which is making its mark everywhere. Human nature differs from one person to another, and so do the choices. While some people are still old school and like to capture their memories in print, to cherish them through hard copy albums; many have adapted themselves according to the trend and for them taking pictures mean publishing them on Instagram and Facebook to share with the whole world. So it’s a bit difficult to say which one is better over other.
Print Photography
Photographs before 1995, are the example of Print photography. At that time, people used to use film camera to take photographs. We all would the cherish the memories of how we used to wait for the photographs for weeks, and when they finally used to arrive, how much fun we had decorating our walls and albums with them. Those photographs still make me doubly nostalgic. Printed photographs were so popular that even poor used to collect money over months for getting themselves clicked. Bu the advent of newer technologies in photography changed the trend. The memory of our phones, laptops, and SD cards in increasing as rapidle as the thickness of our photograph albums is decreasing.
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Digital Photography
Digital photography found its stage and the path to popularity due to social networking. Facebook and Instagram are appealing to us because of digital pictures they offer us. The fun of decorating walls with photographs is replaced by posting photos on our timeline, and the wait for the printed photographs has been converted into the wait for likes and comments on our posted photos. The more the likes, the more the happiness. Surely, digital photography has changed the very concepts that used to be associated to photography.
It’s the advent of digital photography that has made photography a hobby of a lot of youths, and a career option worth looking up to.
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Which one is better?
Both the type of photographies, according to me, have their own importance. Although there’s not denying that we can’t associate as much memories with digital photographs as we can with the printed ones, digital photography has taken the photography industry to a new level.
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(Translated from Hindi by Team Lets Diskuss)
