Saturday, July 26, 2014

Why Facebook Images Look Awful


Also in this issue:


  • Free Ebook Upgrades
  • What's Meaningful Photography?
  • Los Angeles Seminar
  • A Sony A-mount lens on a Fujifilm X-T1


Why Facebook Images Look Awful

I've often joked that no matter how much television may improve in the future, people will still be watching reruns of "I Love Lucy" on them.  Despite the march of technology, some things just don't change.

The same is true of common snapshots.  No matter how fancy or sophisticated our cameras / phones become, no matter how miraculous an engineering achievement they represent, people will always be taking pictures that look like the ones gracing this blog post.  (Always!)  The photos shown here are real snapshots taken across the decades using popular instamatics of the day.  In all cases, the scene looked perfectly good to the eye, and after all, doesn't a camera just capture how it looks to the person shooting it?