See this is how it starts. You take an innocent picture on your phone. The computers enhance it.
Nobody will ever confuse me with Ansel Adams. But hey, I still attempt to take decent pictures. It is just a camera phone but I know people who take freakin' phenomenal pictures with their cameras.
I digress. So in innocence, you take a picture and you think, hey this is good. Then the computer takes over and your nice picture looks like garbage.
One day in the not so distant future people won't even know what the true image looks like as the cameras will think for you.
Don't get me wrong, I know and fully understand that photoshop has been around since the dawn of cameras. Hello, pink lips on a black and white image. I get it. I am just saying people are losing their sense of reality.
Life is not pixelated. Life is real. It is a sensory overload.
Life is unsightly. Foul in stench. Bitter in taste. Gritty in touch. Rash in sound.
Modern cameras are slowly removing life from pictures. When reviewing all the pictures the camera self-adjusted it was only of happy outside memories. Guess the camera does not want to enhance bad days. Didn't see modifications made to Harvey destruction.
And to this, I stand conflicted. Everyone wants beautiful pictures. Blogs with crappy pictures does not a good blog make. But what about the artistic view? What if I wanted the camera to only show the little yellow flower in the dark green field. The point of view was to see the bright surrounded by dark. When the camera lightens the whole image, the point of view changes.
I want life to be life. This is not a blog of happy moments. This is blog where I am trying to be true to myself and what I stand for. Life is not sunshine and roses out my arse. Life is ups and downs, hurricanes and floods, cries and joys. Life is the daily things that are inconsequential on their own but when added up make something truly substantial.
