Humorous Infographic Shows How Digital Photography Changed the Way We Take Photos

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Liron Samuels is a wildlife and commercial photographer based in Israel. When he isn’t waking up at 4am to take photos of nature, he stays awake until 4am taking photos of the night skies or time lapses. You can see more of his work on his website or follow him on Facebook.

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Back in the days of film you would think twice, at least, before snapping a photo. You’d then wait patiently (or impatiently) until you used the entire spool to have it developed.

The digital photography revolutionized our entire photo-taking process, from the thought invested prior to clicking, to how many of the photos we actually bother to develop (or edit) to what we do with the photos later on.

This infographic by Truth Facts is a humorous, though kinda true, presentation how photography today compares to film photography.

Thanks to digital technology, more people own cameras these days than ever before. They also take more photos than ever before since it is so simple, free and you have a camera of some sort with you at practically anytime.

Between dedicated digital cameras, smartphones, tablets, etc the amount of photos that are captured and never looked at again is staggering.

Look at the photos on your own smartphone. How many of them were actually ever used or looked at after the moment?

[via Kind of Normal via Gizmodo]


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Liron Samuels

Liron Samuels

Liron Samuels is a wildlife and commercial photographer based in Israel. When he isn’t waking up at 4am to take photos of nature, he stays awake until 4am taking photos of the night skies or time lapses. You can see more of his work on his website or follow him on Facebook.

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8 responses to “Humorous Infographic Shows How Digital Photography Changed the Way We Take Photos”

  1. Hubert Kowalsky Jr Avatar

    Back in the days you would wait days to make fire to prepare food. Other human creatures would use this fire to burn down anything around or else.

  2. Paul Menard Avatar
    Paul Menard

    yeah its only a few :/

  3. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    “Humoristic” – you gotta be kidding me! That’s humorous!

    1. Liron Samuels Avatar

      Corrected, thanks :)

  4. Shachar Weis Avatar

    I remember reading about National Geographic photographers, when in the field would shoot 200-300 rolls of film for a dozen usable photos. Shoot-many-choose-few has always been the case, just in the past you had to have deep pockets, and today it’s accessible to everyone.

    1. andrei ioan Avatar
      andrei ioan

      True, i remember when i was little and would go on vacation with my parents with 2, maybe 3 rolls of film for 2-3-4 weeks of vacation. Then, when we got our first digital camera and got back from a vacation of 3 weeks with 500+ photos we were all amazed of this witchcraft. now, with my dslr, i got almost 8k photos in 1.5 years….that’s a lot (for me at least)..

  5. Ajdin Spahic Avatar

    Still have tons and tons of 35mm films :D

  6. Joel Penner Avatar
    Joel Penner

    Look at is ZERO? Are you nuts??? I look at and show my pictures all the time!!! I still need to purge more photos though.