I use Instagram every day, easily. I love it I think it allows people to share photos. I have seen many beautiful photos, I've also seen photos I think should have been uploaded filter-less but in my opinion Instagram allows people to explore photography in an amateur form and I don't feel Instagram is harming anyone. I don't feel Instagram photos are in the same lane. With over 150 million users an argument has arose...
When looking at the picture below some people don't see their favorite filter but instead see the seventeen ways Instagram is killing photography...
When looking at the picture below some people don't see their favorite filter but instead see the seventeen ways Instagram is killing photography...
Geoff Livingston is a photographer and author. His position is that as a photographer he feels the filters damage the integrity of the photo, but he does acknowledge's that he doesn't feel the quality of the photos are bad or lesser than those taken by professionals but Instagram is useful for marketing and for gaining basic photo-taking skills. The app is not made to start any sort of photography career but as a way to spread messages/products through photos.
Blogger and artist Kendrick Daye weighed in on this issue 3 years ago. He starts his argument with a small jingle saying
'Instagram killed the DSLR star,
Instagram killed the DSLR star,
In my mind and in my news feed, we can’t rewind we've gone to far'
DSLR means Digital Single-lens reflex camera which is a camera's many photographer use.
His opinion stands that the app has allowed art and creativity to take a backseat and make stupidity go viral. He says that the reason instagram is killing photography is because it caters our generation's need to love things old and make them want to look old while still being new. He says Instagram's editing features for photo's has stopped people for working towards creating something remarkable and just editing it.
I agree in many ways with the opinion of Kendrick Daye, I see his point that people are taking a cop out in using instagram to create modified photos and take willful credit that that photo was taken that way. With apps like Instagram available to the mass majority of people, taking photos has transformed from an art to a 'Who can edit the photo enough for it to be popular' contest.
A BBC writer has even weighed in on the argument saying that Instagram filter's have mimicked the saturation of film photography and that it's made almost everyone who uses the photo app's photos looks the same. In their article they even include a quote from one of the co-founder's of Instagram Kevin Systrom saying...
"The idea was to make mobile photography fast, beautiful and fun. We learned from experience that taking photos on the phone didn't lead to the results that we wanted, so we created the filters and tools to achieve a more artistic experience."
I must say that I disagree with the filters add an 'artistic experience but instead they defeat the purpose of photography.
What do you think? Do you think Instagram has created a more artistic experience? Or do you think it has voided the beauty of art through photography?
Blogger and artist Kendrick Daye weighed in on this issue 3 years ago. He starts his argument with a small jingle saying
'Instagram killed the DSLR star,
Instagram killed the DSLR star,
In my mind and in my news feed, we can’t rewind we've gone to far'
DSLR means Digital Single-lens reflex camera which is a camera's many photographer use.
His opinion stands that the app has allowed art and creativity to take a backseat and make stupidity go viral. He says that the reason instagram is killing photography is because it caters our generation's need to love things old and make them want to look old while still being new. He says Instagram's editing features for photo's has stopped people for working towards creating something remarkable and just editing it.
I agree in many ways with the opinion of Kendrick Daye, I see his point that people are taking a cop out in using instagram to create modified photos and take willful credit that that photo was taken that way. With apps like Instagram available to the mass majority of people, taking photos has transformed from an art to a 'Who can edit the photo enough for it to be popular' contest.
A BBC writer has even weighed in on the argument saying that Instagram filter's have mimicked the saturation of film photography and that it's made almost everyone who uses the photo app's photos looks the same. In their article they even include a quote from one of the co-founder's of Instagram Kevin Systrom saying...
"The idea was to make mobile photography fast, beautiful and fun. We learned from experience that taking photos on the phone didn't lead to the results that we wanted, so we created the filters and tools to achieve a more artistic experience."
I must say that I disagree with the filters add an 'artistic experience but instead they defeat the purpose of photography.
What do you think? Do you think Instagram has created a more artistic experience? Or do you think it has voided the beauty of art through photography?