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tags: Photography
I’m not sure where I wrote it in this, but I was thinking of this future camera process.
For the record, I feel that there’s a brilliance in the first method described here, because of it being a single event.
Early photographs: Go to location, take single photograph (possibly longer exposure duration), and develop it. Deliberate task. Mostly one try. Errors providing texture.
Current Digital Photography: Photography is more about data retrieval at a location. You do all you can to maximize the amount of data you collect of the moment (i.e. expose correctly, so you can go back and give enough headroom to “pump up” values, and adjust parameters). Predominantly in the post production the photograph’s essence emerges.
Future Type of Photograph: Completely a post-production task. You find a subject (a matter of choice, indexing), and the entire probabilistic space of photographs are covered (focal range, locations, color space). From this rapid exhaustive collection of data, a series of proposals are made for the final photograph. The photographer, now is purely an object of choice. A traditional camera might not even be present.
Future, future type of Photograph: Unphotographed. You, as the photographer, with your massive array of data, decide to keep this moment to yourself.
or
You return to the beginning. One shot, all in the look and the finger press.