Blog Prompts #17-18

#17 What do you think the next technological innovation will be in photography? What is the "future" of photography? What will photography become or how will it evolve in the next 100 years? How do you see photography melding with or distancing itself from other types of media?

So this is a little far-fetched, but if you've ever seen Harry Potter, the photographs/paintings in the movies, well, they move. So if there is a photo of Dumbledore hung up on the wall, it actually moves and talks. I know that this can be done by putting a tv screen in a photo frame, as I have seen that at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando. But I think it could be possible to take moving photographs, say a 5 second exposure, and then the exposure stays within the photo (so there would be a new type of photo paper too that could hold moving images), and the photo would always move. That sounds really silly and strange, but hey, technology has come so far, it could happen! 

The "future" of photography, in my eyes, is within the technology of the camera. Since computers are said to be above humans in intelligence and comprehension, then maybe cameras can encompass that technology too and become "aware" of what they are photographing. So for instance the camera can detect the lighting and create different lighting schemes in different sceneries. I think photography will evolve to be much more eco-friendly than it is now. Cameras require a lot of plastic, and maybe some time within the next hundred years cameras will become better for the environment. I see photography melding itself with motion imaging more, such as what I was talking about earlier with the Harry Potter photograph things. I could see moving images on photo paper becoming a real thing. Or maybe, I have this thought in my head and it is crazy but I am not sure if I can articulate it, there will be lenses that capture an incredible depth, such as it can take a picture from one end of the street all the way down to the other end (a few hundred feet), and it gets everything in the photo. So then maybe the lens can travel in a "maze" sort of fashion, where it includes the street, then travels to the side of a house, then to the house across the street, then to the stop sign at the end of the street. So it is a lens that travels through areas and creates a maze-like photograph. I hope this is making sense, maybe if I draw it out it will make more sense. But I could totally see a maze-like lens, it would be SO sweet.

#18 Create your own definition of the word "photography".

Photography is the capturing of a moment in time, it is the phenomena of stopping a second in time that only happens once and will probably never happen again.