News reports are more and more "augmented», the colours are changed sharp and flashy so that the life is tinselled and responds to public expectations. It is a concept of
"Augmented" Image. Pierre J. 09-07-2010
Visa pour l'image (c) © Stéphanie Sinclair
Last August a prize winner of prestigious World Press Photo 2010 was disqualified to have changed, by Photoshop, the contents of his picture: The fact that is resize,
modified colour and contrast was accepted but removing an unattractive element in this image is a crime.
It is not a surprise, if after some visitors of " Visa pour l' Image" in Perpignan find the images dull and sad:
Reality is not always photogenic.
To produce these increasingly beautiful images, with more and more pixels, images products are multiplied and technology inside cross-over and becomes hybrid. The digital SLR
are now able to provide professional video, the compact cameras themselves have large sensors and interchangeable lenses, smartphones grow up in power.
In Occident each one has with him a device able to record images and video.
The next step is the 3D coming at the same time in video and photograph, making obsolete many types of equipment and starting again Mass-market consumption.