It's almost everyone must own a camera. In the past decade, the trend of digital photography has educated people how easy to take photographs with minimum photographic knowledge.
If you have a shaky hand, the image stabilizer will do the anti-shaking.
If you are bad at focusing on subjects, face detection will help you to do that.
If you are bad at capturing the decisive movement, smile detection will take a photograph when your subjects are smiling.
It seems like every camera is ready to use, as long as you want to photograph of something.
That's ok. But after that, then what?
Are you gonna print the pictures out?
Or you gonna upload the images on the Facebook, Google Plus+ or Flickr? I'm sure most people would choose uploading for couple reasons:
1. Convenient and quick
2. Tag your friends in the pictures
3. Mutually beneficial in terms of commenting
Wait a minute...!
What if you uploaded a picture of me but forgot to tag me in?
What if one day those social network companies were hacked and all of your pictures are lost?
What if your pictures are exposed to public and there are ton of other friends of yours leaving many different comments and likes in which only a few of them are actually involved to your pictures?
The social network platforms are media. It's right between you and your friends.
How about the postmen? Do you thank they can help you to deliver your message privately?
The iPhone 4s with the iOS 5 have been announced, and one amazing thing is the app of Cards. This app, in my opinion, is the real digitalized polaroid tool that can maximize the use of photography. Nowadays the photographic trend insists the users to "take" photographs more than "MAKE" photographs. Which means only 10% people or less will have their pictures printed on paper. For me, if an image has never been printed, then the image is still an image, not a photograph. The intangible content never transforms to be a tangible thing. With the Cards, you can easily print your image right on your finger tip, so that no more excuse to say I don't have a printer, don't know how to design a card, or don't know how to pay. When the receiver gets the card you sent, all the excitement of knowing what's inside the envelope are between the parallel universes. Once the receiver sees the card with a memorable photograph, I assume the happiness of seeing a tangible photograph is way greater than just viewing on the internet.
So could the Cards app changes our behavior of "taking" photographs to "making" photographs?