Opinion: When video takes over, what turns into of the {photograph}?

Have you ever stopped to consider simply how a lot video content material you eat as of late?

In my very own expertise, the mix of intelligent algorithms that more and more promote quick type video over different content material means my social media feed is bursting on the seams with extra video content material than ever.

Maybe it began across the time Instagram declared itself as being not a stills picture platform, however in recent times it looks like video content material is in every single place your eyes look.

The social media world of images has modified monumentally.

Where prior to now it felt just like the really useful posts in my feed could be a bunch of images I would like, right this moment it’s overwhelmingly photographers chatting with the digital camera about what’s is that they’re photographing, how they edit a picture, why you should shoot RAW, or the rest designed to maintain you watching just a bit longer.

Everyone appears to do it, and its inescapable.

Clearly, it really works. The numbers inform us we’re creating and consuming extra video content material than ever earlier than, and all indications recommend that development will solely speed up.

Which leaves me questioning: what does it imply for images? When we’re uncovered to much less and fewer of one thing, can we worth it in the identical manner? And can a nonetheless picture ever really compete with a video of the identical second on the subject of impression or emotional pull?

Of course images has efficiently stood the take a look at of time thus far. It has an extended historical past, and it’s extra democratic and accessible than ever. New applied sciences like excessive body fee video, 3D, synthetic intelligence and different developments, haven’t “killed” it, with these types arguably simply entrenching images additional as an artform.

And after all a nonetheless picture can wow us simply as successfully as a video if performed with talent and creativity.

Call me a purist, however simply because Zuckerberg and co need us to have interaction with video doesn’t make the format of stills any much less vital.

But maybe what we do want is to rethink the best way we interact with our stills – whether or not that’s by means of printing extra of our work, viewing it in books and on partitions, or simply switching off social media completely for a bit.

What do you suppose? Is video in every single place you look too? Let me know within the feedback.