Smartphones Just KILLED Photography

Smartphone Cameras Don't Take Photos Anymore, so how is this gonna end?

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ABOUT: In this video, Enrico Tartarotti explores how AI and software are changing photography—from miniaturizing cameras to adding features that alter reality itself. Learn how today’s photo tech redefines memories, manipulating images to match emotions rather than reality. Discover how digital photography has evolved and where it’s heading with powerful AI tools that blur the line between capturing a moment and creating one

[CochiTravels]

As a photographer I am completely invested in trying to better understand how smartphone photography is shaping people's consciousness on images.
I agree that most people want to take photos of "memories" but, if you think about it, isn't the skill of a photographer to be able to convey a certain emotion, story and feel through his craft?

[HiLasse]

Submitting ourselves to a company's definition of perfection will rob us of our own subjectivity.

There's beauty in the broken and imperfect. In chaos and mundanity.

[thomasjoyce]

A further step:
Automatically have the view through everyones Vision Pro type device make the world look nicer. Remove garbage on the street. Paint derelict buildings. Hide surveillance technology.

Want to record police brutality as it's happening?
Nope. Playback will show something else.

[djp]

Smartphones killed photography a long time ago. Nobody knows how to use a camera anymore. Everyone takes vertical pictures & videos.

[jamesford]

Unfortunately, photography enthusiasts fail to understand that most users want to pick up something, take a picture, look at it once or twice, and possibly never look at it again. Learning the tricks and techniques the enthusiasts want to apply to photos is too time-consuming and a waste of most people's time. The picture they want is gone when they attempt to use the tricks and techniques photography enthusiasts espouse. Most of the time, the default picture the multi-use device cell phone camera takes is acceptable for most users.

[HistoryBluff]

0:22 "Every important moment in history has been been captured with a photograph." Everything before 1816 is a myth

[Lenta]

"when everyone is super, no one will be"

[babch]

i believe it did,
i love doing photography and when i mention it to people they just ask me if i have a phone and why dont i use that instead of my "expensive" (beginner) gear..

[nadavshvo]

Society has to decide if they value the truth as more important than how they feel.

[mikemuponda]

we are going towards a future where the user’s input matters less and less, google search already does this, youtube search same thing, our cameras are starting to do this, cars will head in that direction too. It’s crazy just to think about that it is less and less about the user’s opinion about what they want but rather the statistical analysis of what the user should want based on some algorithm that probably predicts that better than the user can. Social media is the perfect example of algorithms deciding what to show us so that we can’t put our phones down.

[johnsmith-gppe]

Smartphone didn't killed photography, it made photography accessible to everyone and made it so that the skill needed to take a good photo is not heaven and earth from an average Joe to photography snobs.

[abramjones]

This is why I stopped online dating around 2021... that gravy train is over!

[svschi]

There is a reason why I started with 35mm photography earlier this year...

[ProtonFission]

The only thing I agree with is the group photo being a nice memory. No one wants the mountains to be fake. That fake mountain is not what your brain remembers and will always feel wrong. But the group photo is whatever. Only time it’s okay. And a certain color wash is just artistic expression.

What is the point in adding in more grapes and removing the trash if it’s a photo for a memory? None. This is all to make your life seem perfect on Instagram.

Imperfect memories are fine but posting a photo with a small thing wrong hurts people lol that’s what this is for.

[Liisa]

It is worrying how much so many people are willing to live in fantasy instead of reality.

[casperhilmand]

Photography as a definiton is to graph(catch) photons - Light particles.
Is it really photography, if you aren't capturing any photons, but merely doodling something with google-ai-software?
I think not.
This will twist peoples general perception of reality way more than it is already is.

[Sushiphoto]

This is why I prefer using my Mirrorless Camera because I don't like the look of Smartphone Images.

[yohann]

One can argue that photography has never been about capturing reality. Even in the old days, various printing techniques where used to convey meaning or emotions, add or remove stuff. The main difference here is that it's never been easier.

[FARSIDE_]

That's why Pro mode exist on smartphone cameras.
I think blaming it on smartphone because of "Ohh smartphone cameras heavily rely on post processing" Is kinda unfair.

The general use of Smartphone is for people to tske a quick snap of something. If they want to take more professional pictures with no processing. They'll use the Professional mode with RAW

[SHUTENSEPC]

IDK, I have RAW format on my phone, it captures pictures like 2 times better than just click n shoot, so it's more like a user problem.