Photography and Technology

Question: The great Modernist tradition of straight photography resulted from the thinking of Sadakichi Hartmann and many others. Names associated with this style include Ansel Adams and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Photographers were urged to produce pictures that looked like photographs rather than paintings, and they were urged to feature black-and-white photography. Is black-and-white photography more truthful than modern digital photography? Is one more artificial than the other? Why? Answer: By considering the major demand over the black and white photography lately, it seems that the particular type of image is making a comeback of late. The digital camera users have rediscovered the beauty of the mono images (Macfarlane, et al., 2014). The absence of colour distractions is one of the most obvious reasons making the black-and-white photography more truthful than the modern-day photography. The fact outlined above facilitates black-and-white photography more artificial than the modern digital photography. The modern photography consists of terrible level of distractions regarding the colour combinations in the images. It causes to take the entire focus away from the subject (Burger Burge, 2016). Alternatively, there are the subtlety-tones present in the black-and-white images providing understanding about what more can be achieved in a photo. References Burger, W., Burge, M. J. (2016).Digital image processing: an algorithmic introduction using Java. Springer. Macfarlane, C., Ryu, Y., Ogden, G. N., Sonnentag, O. (2014). Digital canopy photography: exposed and in the raw.Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,197, 244-253.