By Yogesh Sharma
If we say that technology has revamped almost everything then it would not be an exaggeration. The advancement in technology is easing our life by automating things. One cannot pick even a single thing that is not transformed by technology. If technology has reached every aspect of life, then how can photography remain untouched? It hasn’t.
Technology hasn’t only changed the hardware and architecture used in photography, but it has also changed the way an image is captured and processed. In this article, we will discuss four ways in which technology has changed professional photography.
High-End Digital Cameras
A camera is one of the primary needs for photography, and it has seen many refinements. When we look in the past, we will find that good photography used to be a lot harder than it is now. Photographers had to worry about many factors, and if any one of them went wrong the whole picture was ruined.
But with the arrival of the high-end digital cameras, photography has seen a steep rise in new photographers. It used to take several hours or even days to develop a photo. And if something went wrong, then you’d have to recapture that moment. Now with technology advancements, you can instantly check the result and if anything goes wrong then you can instantly recapture it.
Ease of Storage
Amateur photographers are sharing the platform with renowned photographers and all thanks to the technology. Now you can take an unlimited number of shots with vivid angles before selecting the best click. Gone are those days when you can click a limited number of shots with each shot need to be perfect. All you need is to increase the storage capacity of your camera by inserting a memory card. Easy sharing and transferring options help you to transfer those images instantly to your PC or any other external memory storage.
Ease of Printing
Remember the days when it took days to print an image on paper? A dark room, use of chemicals, a trained professional, mechanical devices, a lot of effort and, lastly, a lot of a time was needed to develop a photo. But thanks to technology all this is now the past. In the modern era, no such procedure is required.
Anyone can now print the images in a few minutes. And if you do not want to purchase a printer to print the images then you can use one of many websites that can print the photo for you and deliver the finished product at your doorstep. Additionally, you have an option to receive your images in a photo book, or single photo with a decorated frame or a collage.
Editing of Photos with a Photo Editor
This is one of the biggest advantages that technology has provided in photography. In the past, no one even dreamt of making the changes in a developed photo. But image editing has broken this barrier, as now you can make changes in a processed image by using various image editing tools.
These tools are capable of take a good picture and making it near-perfect. And ease of access to EXIF data has given a new dimension to photography. Now with various EXIF editors one can easily edit the EXIF data associated with each photo as per his requirements. This not only helps the photographer to make an easy search from thousands of photos, but also make their photo collection organized.
Technology has brought a revolution in each and every aspect of photography. And this is still not the end but just a beginning. Technology has still a lot in its bag that it can bring to photography. What will be next?