Cloud computing’s effect on digital photography

Grazed from ThoughtsOnCloud. Author: Sarit Sotangkur.

The photography industry has been revolutionized multiple times throughout its history. In the beginning, black and white photos were recorded on plates, then celluloid film, then color film and now digital files. In each of these revolutions, we see a fundamental shift in the way photos are captured, processed and displayed. Although we are now in the digital age, I believe the cloud has only shown us a glimpse of where digital photography will go.

The cloud as photo backup

The digital age has brought us fast, compact and non-fading image permanence, but it has also brought us crashing hard drives, hackers and computer viruses. With that in mind, backups are top priority with any professional or serious photographer. And since shipping DVDs or hard drives to your relatives for off-site backups gets old fast, backing up your photos in the cloud makes a lot of sense. That’s why many commercial backup offerings like Carbonite or Dropbox have a large focus on preserving your photos and can do so at a fairly low cost…

The cloud as a sharing tool

Its always great to review your own photos, but let’s be honest, we all take them to show other people, right? That’s why sharing photos is the one feature common to every social site. Twitter limits you to 140 characters, but a picture is worth a thousand words–you do the math. Also, any photographer who wants to make a name for themselves is going to want to display his or her work for the masses to see, and what better way to do it than an online photographic community in the cloud like Flickr or 500px…

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