Photography in the Digital Age: Instagram Blog Analysis & Discussion

This essay examines the evolution of photography from the film era to the digital age, with a specific focus on the impact of Instagram. The author discusses how digital media has enhanced the ease of knowledge sharing and skill development, particularly for the younger generation. The essay contrasts the limitations of traditional photography with the flexibility and democratizing power of platforms like Instagram, which allows both professionals and amateurs to build their careers. It explores the editing features and the role of hashtags in making content discoverable. The author also references the views of Rose (2016) and Sontag (1977) to support the arguments. The essay emphasizes the importance of conscious approaches to preserve artistic skills and prevent the commercialization of art in the digital age, suggesting surveys and interviews of artists and modification of Instagram with features like drawing and painting. The author concludes that limitations would not be productive for extracting free and abstract art forms and affirming with the arguments supporting the theme based paintings and drawing should not be there in the paintings on the social networking sites like Instagram.

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Blog on photography in Instragram
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Digital media has enhanced the ease of the people in terms of enhancing their
knowledge, skills and expertise. The enhancement of the virtual skills, one of the benefits,
which the people have received by intervening into the world of digital media. The young
generation has elated at the flexibility in the digital media platforms like Facebook,
Instagram, YouTube where the people can upload various images and share it with their
friends, relatives and others. Going in the flashback, there was a camera consisting of 35mm
rolling, enabling the support of clicking 24 photos at the same time that was the only weapon
for us to shoot. At that time, clicking a photo reflected the conglomeration of the recollection
and feelings. People used to have the albums, which enabled them to cherish the memories,
which they shared. In view of these aspects, you can see the transition of photography in the
early and the digital age.
Sharing of the images in the digital media platforms is one of an effective means of
conveying the essential thoughts, ideas and emotions to the friends, relatives and peers. This
is covered in the parameter of the art, which represented the pictorial presentation of your
inner expressions as a photographer artist. These aspects make “photography still alive in the
digital age”. In these perspectives, Rose (2016) opines that a ‘new purpose of
communication” has evolved with the field of art. Based on this emerged purpose, you can
affirm with the enhanced power of technology in terms of the personalizing the aspect of
wish fulfilment.
In the modern times, the limitations of the digital media platforms have contracted the
capabilities of the people in terms of making pictorial representation of their thoughts,
feelings and emotions. Here, you can cite the example of Instagram, which is assistance for
the amateurs in terms of enhancing the awareness of the audience regarding their
photography skills. In this, considering the arguments of Rose (2016), that the canvases have
shrunk in comparison to the artistic skills, abilities and competencies of the artists. Instagram

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hashtags have become more useful for making contents more discoverable and attract more
people to get engaged on your profile. Granted your hashtags correctly, you can see an
increased follower numbers and engagement.
Instagram is a platform for photo sharing where both the professionals as well as
amateurs built their careers utilising unique benefit of this social networking site. This is in
terms of the editing features, using which reflects the artistic skills of the people. The apps
consist of the modern features, which entraps the people into the features. This keeps the
people engrossed, that they intend to incorporate the ordinary art into something, which is
beyond their artistic skills and capabilities. These apps are an efficient example of innovation,
which has altered the dynamics of art in the Instagram, incorporating the aspects of time and
globalization, in which the art has experienced changes. Now in the era of hashtags the artists
have the freedom to express their thoughts in a free form. Here, I can relate the views of
Sontag (1977), which sheds light on the abstract form of art, which had no particular format.
In schools also, traditional pedagogy is practiced, where the teacher adopts the traditional
form of painting a scenery for disseminating the essential form of art to the students.
However, the modern pedagogy of art is much more diversified. This is because of the
diversified sources from where the students can enhance their artistic skills.
Sontag (1977) argues that the “photography is dead” as the artists are not getting a
proper platform for portraying their skills to the audience. Here the government gets a chance
to take more initiatives for providing lucrative opportunities to the artists in terms of
unleashing their artistic skills. Contests in the digital media can be a good start to identify the
tastes of the artists. This identification would be effective in terms of organizing exhibitions
but of course financial flexibility is crucial for the government in terms of organizing the
exhibitions. Conscious approach in this case is appropriate in terms of empowering the
artists. Affirming the ideas of Villi (2010), I can state that photography in the digital age can

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be preserved if conscious approach is exposed towards unleashing the artistic skills of the
artists. I think rationality is essential in this case for preventing commercialization of the
artistic skills, competencies and abilities. Evolution of the art and its preservation can be
researched, which would be effective in terms of keeping art “alive’. Taking surveys and
interviews of the artists would be effective for the respecting their individuality and levying
liberal approach towards their needs. Instagram can be modified with features like the
drawing and painting on the canvases, which would act as opportunity for the artists to
showcase their talents. Limitations would not be productive for extracting free and abstract
art forms, stalling the enhancement of skills in case of the artists. Therefore, affirming with
the arguments supporting the theme based paintings and drawing should not be there in the
paintings on the social networking sites like Instagram.

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