Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Photograpy

Convenience is preeminent reason why digital photography has surpassed film. Thousands of images can be taken without wasting paper, and by extension, it better serves the environment. With volumes of pictures transferred and organized into data in our computers, we can focus more on the pictures we are taking. Computers have made it easy to enhance, retouch, and restore our photos (although "easy" is still an understatement). Moreover, we can share our pictures more efficiently using the internet.

However, like most technology that has replaced the traditional medium in creating art, we forget ourselves in the instant gratification of "convenience." The process in which we develop our photos in film photography teaches us the importance and relevance of what we are trying to create. With digital, we take less time thinking about composition or color correction, because we can fix it later in Photoshop. Furthermore, the ease of data organization is definitely over-exaggerated. Dedicated programs have to be made in order to organize our data. As data, our images are volatile; but more safe as tangible, paper photographs.