The term photography comes from Greek words. The term photo means light. As for the word graph means drawing. Photography is used in advertising, magazines, journals, articles and etc. Photography certainly does make life exciting; it gives us a visual to look at and allows us to articulate many different things around the world. Photography has been out for many many years, but the question is what is the media doing that makes photography seem so easy?! This is the age of new media and social networking sites such as Instagram and smartphones where everyone thinks they are "photographers". People are simply adding filters with the click of a button. Coming out of the University of Hartford Art School, I would spend hours in the darkroom for just one photograph. When I wanted to add a filter to an image to tone an image I would add a filter which took another whole hour in the darkroom. In the article Art photography when reality isn't good enough by Ashley Strickland CNN website it explained how the problem nowadays is how many people have " thrown every filter and post–processing technique at a photo and called it ART". A PROBLEM?????? YES INDEED!!!! The backbone and foundation of photography and ART is being LOST.
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