future of photography?
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- __TM
After giving a brief demonstration during the keynote address at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, Adobe went into more detail about computational photography using plenoptic lenses, a method of taking pictures so that any part of a photo can be brought into focus after the fact.
While the technology is still a good ways from being commercialized, it’s an interesting look into the future of photography.
By using a bunch of tiny lenses and some rendering software, users will be able to select what they want in focus, even after the photo has been taken. This technology will let users create 3D images on the fly as well.
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- slappy0
I hope the future of photography isn't reliant on any particular form of technology. This does look cool though.
- __TM0
you could argue that it degrades the "eye" a great photographer needs to have, the sensitivity where to put the focus during the split second the image is taken.
But I can also see huge practical applications for this technology, both in consumer and professional photography. Who knows, this might be standard in cameras in a few years...
- bigtrick0
interesting and scary. i do wonder if i will be rendered obsolete.
- Peter0
>Inevitable step towards photography being more and more about photoshop, rather then the actual mechanics of ...
' hear what you are saying. This might be the autotune of photography. But; something similar was probably said when computer started to aid graphic designers. As exciting as woodblock printing is I can't imagine working without a computer.
New tech, like above, needs to be embraced by us, rather than a dismissal while reminisce about the "good old days".
Let photography evolve with it. Talent still have the central role. Take HDR "tech" as an example:It gave us millions of inane photos saturated up to mildly interesting, but very few of them lingers in our minds. The ones that still do are the ones that were backed with talent.
- Kiino0
Echoing some of the above here...another tool in the toolbox is just fine. The bottom line is who's got their hands at the wheel. For every 5,000 hacks there will always be the few who have a truly solid handle on composition, line/form, quality aesthetics, etc. And there are even fewer who have these skills PLUS the ability to tell a story with substance. Creative chops + storytelling ability = the most rarified artform.
- johanito0
i dont understand wtf is this?
- utopian0
THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IS BASED ON CONCEPT, COMPOSITION AND CREATIVITY, PERIOD!
- flashbender0
Will this work on my iPad?
- johnnnnyh0
Photography is always about the eye, not the camera, lens or photoshop. Unless this is technology which can take 360 degree views of everything then after the fact focus or cropping are irrelevant. Even if you had a picture of *everything* and could pull focus from it. Your eye would still be cropping and composing (at the post production stage).
Agree that the ability for anyone to take a snap has meant that there's a lot of bad pictures and few quality ones. I think this will just validate the good over the bad and mean that people with a good visual eye for composition/the decisive moment/the story etc. will win through.
Interesting all the same . . .
- Hombre_Lobo0
I always thought eventually you will be able to take a photo and then later in post select s/s, focus distance, aperture, iso etc
obviously the camera would take like a thousand images per photo. I'm talking far future. Wouldn't be surprised if we could do this 30 years though.