Despres Photography

Print Photography And Digital Photography

These days, with all of the digital media out there, people often neglect to preserve actual photographs, and in many cases never even have photographs printed. Before digital cameras, physical prints of pictures were one of the only tangible ways to preserve your memories. Whether you had a fancy camera or a simple snapshot camera, or even if you just used a disposable, you still ended up with pictures in hand.

Since you couldn't see the pictures you took with the older cameras, you often forgot what you had taken photos of by the time the roll was finished. You might go on a family trip and take four or five rolls of photos, not getting them developed until you got home and went to the drugstore. If you were especially anxious, you would pay extra to have them developed in one hour. You would hang around close by, checking your black sport watch repeatedly until it was finally time to pick up the pictures.

The fun of looking through the photos was a great way to top off the vacation itself. You might find a shot of a gorgeous sunset above a lake, or a funny candid photo of your brother showing off the men's sport watch he bought on impulse at a rest stop. Looking through the photos, and filing them in an album, you live the memories once again.

Digital cameras show us the photo immediately after it is taken, so we lose the element of surprise. Often times, if we are not satisfied with a shot, we erase it and take a new one. This may give us greater control over the finished product, but it means that we lose the fun of discovering that photo we forgot was ever taken.

Along with the surprise has gone the necessity of organizing photos into physical albums. Now, we just upload the pictures to a hard drive or a social networking site and put them in 'albums' there.

While this allows us to share the photos immediately with people who are not in the same physical location, it takes away the experience of sitting on the couch and passing around a photo album. Crowding around a computer screen is more difficult and much less conducive to relaxed conversation.

With some effort, though, we can take advantage of the convenient things about digital photography, and preserve many of the good things about print photos. Almost every drug store with a photo developing service will also have a machine where you can order print photos. You can adjust your photos before you order prints, by cropping them or changing the colors. With a few scrapbooking tools, you can make beautiful albums, using the convenience of the digital age to enhance them!

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