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Everybody is a photographer — Part 1
A guide to take good photographs — Photography for the masses and Instagram
We’re living in exciting times: digital photography brought millions of people into this field, people who wouldn’t have never before dared to consider themselves photographers. Those who started to photograph with a film camera know very well how expensive it was: prints, rolls, developing, slides. Photography was a serious thing, you really had to be committed to it.
Then came cheap cameras and eventually smartphones with their cameras that still keep on improving month after month. You can take really good photos with a cellphone nowadays. This was unconceivable not many years ago: pros thought that good photography was on one side and then there was mobile photography which was poorer from a technical point of view. Today this gap is narrowing and sometimes the quality of the later overlaps the other.
It’s really easy to take amazing images today, even with a cellphone.
Here’s the thing: the fact that it’s easy does not mean that they’re good as well.
Is Instagram really bad?
Given that Instagram is the king of photography, you’ll find many — if not all — trends on…
