From Dada to Digital

In the article Data to Digital by Timothy Druckrey, Druckrey brings up the history of the photograph. There has been a large change in the photograph, originally in a Darkroom with film, which I find to be a more elegant process, to now where you can take as many photographs as possible and edit them to perfection instead of really making sure your work is done correctly before taking the photograph. Now a days, as Drukrey brings up, photography is part of our everyday lives now, we have come to an age where everyone is able to take a photograph, to believe that they are a professional photographer. At this moment there are people taking "selfies" and instagraming photos of food, there is always a picture to be taken and adding different filters and editing is such a given these days, people don't really think of the art of the photograph anymore, there is hardly any meaning to what people post, and I believe the real photographers are the ones that can take your breath away, do something different and challenge their line of work. I do enjoy editing photographs but I feel that you should still do everything you can to get the perfect image, lighting, exposure, etc. on the first few shots instead of taking the picture with intentions just to change everything about the settings in Photoshop or Lightroom.