Is it photography any more?

Staff · Issue 112, Jan/Feb 2020 · pp. 4

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Editorial Is it photography any more? My research into smartphone housings got me thinking. On land the vast majority of us take pictures with our phones; all we do is press a virtual button and we get an image. In the main we don’t think about apertures and shutter speeds and, even in most scenarios, focus. We just ‘take a shot’. Then there’s the fact that there are now cameras which allow you to refocus an image after it has been taken not to mention phone apps and computer software which will transform your image with another touch of the virtual button. They allow us to do things that photographically were either impossible or certainly only possible after a lot of time consuming work. Colour correction, unsharp masking and solarisation are three that spring to mind but there are dozens of others. So my point is the photography part of image creation has changed beyond all recognitio…