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Before October 2010, the hashtag – #NoFilter would not have made much sense to the everyday hipster (in fact my computer is still highlighting it as a spelling error), but since the rise of Instagram it is most likely being typed in artisan coffee shops all around the world. But it didn’t stop there.
Many more apps have since been created to transform your selfie (or cat pictures) into works of art that you can then share with your friends and family. There are apps like Studio Design, Snapseed, Over and many more on Android, iOS and BlackBerry and they all have the same goal – to help you improve your image, give it a unique twist before sharing it across social media. Or maybe you just want to use high tech smartphones to make your 2014 photographs appear as if taken in the early 20’s and completely out of focus, the beauty is it’s your phone and your call!
With all these filters, overlays, shutter speeds, etc you would think our photography requirements would have been fulfilled, right? Wrong.
Just as fashion goes forward by moving back, so do our photography needs. How many of us would now rather receive a postcard than yet another email? With the growth of the world wide web, we tend to crave the offline world of tangibility more and more. Take the rise of companies such as 250grams (they are really great, you should give them a try). They link to your Instagram account so you can click and choose the photos you want printed and then delivered to your door. Simple. But does that not defeat the whole point of having your photos stored on your phone, or in your Cloud or wherever you choose to keep these pearls of memories?
Enter the “modern” old school cameras. Yes, it seems a little backwards to buy a new camera that give your photos the old school look and feel but at the end of the day you get to take that role of film in and get it developed! (Oh and for anyone born after 2000, click here to find out what I mean by that). The best thing about these cameras is they are not too pricey, my favorites being Lomography. Don’t have the time to get your photos developed but want them ASAP? Let’s take it back to the 70’s, because recently Polaroid and Fujifilm have bought out really cool remakes of the original instant Polaroid cameras, still working on the simple click and print efficiency.
For all the professionals out there, please don’t take any of this to heart as these really are apps and cameras for having fun and reminiscing about the days where picture frames held a printed photo and you had the pains of choosing which one to go in as they didn’t quite have multiple USB ports. Like fashion, maybe the craze will fade, but for now, who doesn’t want to shake it like a Polaroid picture??
