Photography, as your parents or grandparents used to know it, is a dying breed.
If 20 years ago the idea of a photograph was to capture an important moment in one’s life as authentically as possible, today we’re living in a different world… Fair enough, not everyone owned a camera in 1980, and phones have managed to make this once unattainable thing very accessible, which is wonderful!
However, as it turns out in 2022, the world is less about authenticity and more about “making everything better” – whatever that’s supposed to mean. Nowadays, photos (amongst other things) are supposed to enhance our reality and make it “cool and fun”. Your baby can have bunny ears, and you can puke rainbows.
But there’s more beyond Snapchat filters that enhance the way your photos look, and it all boils down to something called computational photography. It’s the “hidden filter” that makes … Read More