Photography taught in school has always been an
interesting subject when it comes to photography in General in this new Digital
Age. The issue with photography now days are that is what is being taught in
school still relevant. Thanks to the digital age many people believe that the
entire process of spending hours in the dark room is no longer needed. Thanks
to the digital age photography has evolved in such a way that you can almost
instantaneously have what you want from an image and if you don’t like the
image you simply delete it unlike before where you had to wait and shoot an
entire roll of film to find out that none of your images came out. The whole
process of needing to keep and eye on your shot count to then going into the
darkroom to transfer film to a container an then correctly measure chemistry
for a clear and timely development to make for the best images.
Many institutions still like to teach the old ways of
photography with requiring for you to take black and white photography. Which
means that you are required to learn all the traditional ways of photography
but this goes back to is learning film photography still relevant and many
people believe that it should be required. Many places still require the use of
film photography and the knowledge of such things due to the kind of work it
is. As an example the NYPD or New York Police Department has changed from the
use of digital cameras back to film photography because of the advancements of
digital manipulation. This was done because it has been found that it is to
easy to manipulate a digital image and the use of digital photography in a
court system is not considered evidence for the reasons that it is to easy to
change an image where as on film you have to directly change the negative of an
image which is much harder to do. As of 2010 the NYPD bought out the majority
of the stock and Projectors from B&HPhoto and Video due to this issue with
tampering with crime scene evidence.
Another example would be that there is many school in
Boston that still teach film photography over digital and it was shown over 40
different accounts where they had bought analog cameras and supplies of film.
Archy LaSalle who teaches at Cambridge says that Students learn more then just
learning about a camera. The importance of film photography teaches you how to
compose and how to envision an image as you take it. Cambridge has two black and white photography
labs and four levels of classes and photography is actually the most popular
class with the classes always full. A Student of Cambridge named Cynthia
Eliacin says that Film allows her to concentrate and compose a image compared
to digital where you see it instantly. Photography and many schools in Boston
are finding the Analog is far more popular then Digital.
"Darkroom over Digital: Film Photography Still
Popular at Some Local Schools." BetaBoston. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar.
2015.
"Free Newsletter." The Admissibility of
Digital Photographs in Court. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2015.
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