How Has Photography Changed Over Time

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This article starts off with a video of different pictures put together just to have a physical affect on you after you look at it. Photography is the art of capturing the world's greatest and sometimes saddest moments that happen. It's not just pointing a camera and taking a few shots of something, it goes much deeper than what meets the eye. This article states that photography isn’t what it use to be, they never took as long as they do now to take pictures of things. They used to take one picture and put it and that was done and over with. This soon changed in the later years, everything just doesn't get taken care of as soon as it happens. Photography has grew over the years and people who were asked why they do what they do simply say

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