The word photography was created from the Greek roots, which represents the means of lines or drawing, together meaning drawing with light. Photography as a kind of science, art and practice of creation, has gone through years of development and radical changes together with technological innovation and social, economical transformations. And photography has revolutionary various aspects of implications, which are fit for amateurs and professional, from commercial use to art.
"Many of the most complex and exciting elements of contemporary photographic practices are invisible to audiences. They consist of relationships, compassion, patience, and listening. They consist of really challenging oneself, as the artist, to give up conventions within the art-making process that subtly reinforce oppressive social dynamics."
Photography as an instrument has the potential to promote social changes that allows individuals to document their circumstances, share their stories and change their lives. “To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting one’s self into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge, and therefore like power.” Photographers decide what to take a photo of, what elements to exclude and what angle to frame the photo, and create what you want to see. Along these lines it can be argued that photography is a subjective form of representation. Photography is one of the new media forms that changes perception and changes the structure of society. Entering Web 2.0 times, people radically change the way by communication and entertainment with photography. People actually create image and communicate with what they want to express.
Witness The Magic--When Cloud Meet With Photography
The cloud has opened up a world of image collection possibilities for both professional and casual photographers, making it simple and inexpensive to store and work with photographs online. Cloud photography embraces various functions including storing, organizing, editing, and sharing images and there are multiple choices for you choose from in term of the cloud platforms, costs, access, and security. Cloud has made it possible for you to manage any large photography collection online even without any computer or mobile device. There are various available cloud platforms for you to explore and evaluate, including Dropbox, Adobe Revel, Photo Stream in iCloud, Mozy, Amazon Cloud Drive, and more. Cloud could even be tailored to your specific needs as a photographer and will have you up and running and maximizing this expansive tool as you wish or even beyond your imagination.
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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 storage tool
What if you had the ability to backup your data to an off-site location, had unlimited storage and never had to worry about backing up that storage or maintaining it when it fails? That’s when cloud storage comes into play – it can virtually provide unlimited storage with a very low risk of potential failure. Imagine thousands and thousands of interconnected hard disks in large boxes that form one huge and expandable storage array within the cloud. The storage cloud is monitored by automated systems and professional staff and any potential problems are taken care of immediately the moment they occur. You can buy or rent your storage space, which is assigned to you dynamically from this expandable storage and you only pay for what you actually use, so there is no waste of resources.
The cloud as a sharing tool
It’s always great to review your own photos, but let’s be honest, we all take them to show to other people, right? That’s why sharing photos is one of the common features to every social site. Twitter limits you to 140 characters, but a picture is worth a thousand words. In addition, any photographer who wants to make a name for themselves is going to display his or her work for the masses to see, and the better way to do it is sharing them with an online photographic community in the cloud like Flickr or 500px.
The cloud as a sales model
Considering how much we consume as information today comes from the cloud, it makes sense that all those stock photos you see there also come from the cloud in the form of microstock companies. Microstock photography is essentially the cloud-based version of the traditional stock photography business. However, instead of just one company contracting with a few photographers, a microstock company accepts millions of photos from tens of thousands of people from around the world. In the fine art world, we also see art galleries transform from little boutiques with high startup costs in affluent shopping centers to cloud-based galleries that offer high quality print on demand and even custom framing services like at Fine Art America.
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The cloud as the future
It is believed that ultimately, cameras will upload photos directly to the cloud and all the old image editing, organization, backup and sharing that we do from our computers today will be a relic of the past. Without a doubt, cloud computing is the future.Wouldn’t it be great if there was a cloud version of Lightroom or Aperture that you could launch directly from the Internet and all your files were stored on the cloud? The speed of your computer would not matter and you could work on your images from a device like the iPad, because you would not need local processing power or storage.
Except for some advanced photo editing capabilities, we can already do everything we do today with photos completely in the cloud. Probably the best known photo editing software out there is Adobe Photoshop, and they are now only selling it as subscription to their “Creative Cloud”. Although it’s still a software download, maybe it’s only a matter of time until you can actually use Photoshop in the cloud.possibilities with cloud computing are endless.
Cloud Storage Problems and Limitations
Cloud storage requires good upload bandwidth to back up many large files. Restoring your files from cloud storage will also require good download bandwidth if you want to do it quick.Some cloud storage providers limit the maximum size of files you can upload to their system. For example, Flickr limits image sizes to 20 MB for Pro accounts.Access to files is sometimes restricted to a certain web page. If you use public/community cloud storage, you can only access your files through their website. Because of this, you will probably see ads and the company can change photo presentation format any time they want.
Impact of Globalization
What exactly is globalization? Simply put, globalization is the process of changing to an integrated world from an isolated one. Globalization can be summed up as a long-term change towards greater international cooperation in economics, politics, idea,cultural values, and the exchange of knowledge.
As everything internet touches, this development is marked by the imprint of the globalization spirit. From the self-sufficient individual device that stores all data and contains all the applications required by the user, we are evolving towards an on-demand service model for computation, communication and information storage that dynamically adapts to variations in consumption and meets the needs of a global market.
Facing with globalization, cloud photography could become a controversial issue. There’s no restriction for you to share anytime anywhere with anything you want. It’s an easy way for you to look for friends with similar interest, and enhance mutual communication without national boundaries. However, potential risks may exist, such as unintentionally disclose any pictures which may have butterfly effect that may trigger any conflict or intense situation between regions or countries. And privacy protection is a vital issue unsettled, which may pose potential risks for misuse or intellectual property violation for lacking in regulation and supervision. As in Web 2.0 times, everybody could be a “artist”, and the blur boundary may pose a series of problems concerning the identification of professionals and amateurs.
Widely perceived to be the driving force of our era, Globalization has attracted much critical commentary within the field of visual culture. Despite interest in the correlations between globalization and the visual, however, there has been relatively little examination of the role of photography in shaping the global media landscape. Equally the impact of globalization on photographic and artistic practices has been an area that has not received much commentary. The online community is a virtual community that exits online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. Significance socio-technical change may have resulted from the proliferation of such internet-based social networking services.
Technological resources are distributed globally and the information is stored on internet servers, feeling the user from traditional dependence of the device, enhancing mobility, accessibility and security, and allowing until recently unthinkable access to next generation services via payment for consumption, that is, without a substantial prior economic investment.
Conclusion
Cloud computing combining with photography meets the increased requirements of lower cost of consumption, increased efficiency, dynamic provisioning and utility like pay as you go services.The cloud allows the crossing of technological, geographical and administrative boundaries, concentrating information and services in data centers and devices that are remote but accessible online at any time, from anywhere and from almost any device or terminal.People’s way of life changes with the radical combination of innovations, and the development of the mix is infinite and full of unlimited possibilities and joy.
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