It’s the new word for the 21st century; the selfie
has taken on a life of its own, and everyone is on board. As I thought about what write for the letter
S, this is what came to mind; pictures of ourselves that we share with the
world. The official definition of a
selfie is, “ A selfie is a self-portrait
photograph, typically taken with a hand-held digital
camera or camera phone. Selfies are often shared on social networking services such as Instagram, Snapchat, and Tumblr. They are
often casual, and are typically taken either with a camera held at arm's length
or in a mirror.”
Today, everything is digital and we use that to our
advantage. There is the ability to touch
up a picture before it is seen by anyone else, and lets us control how we are
portrayed to the public. The most
popular photo now is the one we take of ourselves, or with us in a group we show who we are at that particular moment
in time, no waiting anymore. Surprisingly,
though, this generation did not invent the selfie as we know it, the first
photo was taken in 1839. In 1900 with
dawn of what was then new technology, self-portraits were taken by using a mirror, sound familiar?
I think back to our amazement when Polaroid pictures were
introduced, the idea of having instant pictures was more than we could have
imagined then, and we took advantage of this new technology, yet the idea of
taking photos of ourselves didn’t really come to mind. First of all, there was no easy way to take a
selfie then, and if you did it didn’t look right No, I am from the days of the old 110 film
and eventually 35mm, waiting days for the photos to come back from the
developer and hoping they developed the way I had expected. For me, there was a time of excitement and
wonder as to what I would see when I opened the envelope and looked at each
photo, remembering the moment in the time that it was taken.
I am a fan of the digital, don’t get me wrong; I love having
the ability to edit my photographs in various software programs until it looks
just the way I want. I do not think I
would go back to regular film at this point; I have been spoiled. I can wonder now what we will see in the
future in term's photography, with the advances already made the sky seem to be
the limit.
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