· featuring @mkbhd
Every photo we take, even if it’s of the same thing
"Every photo we take, even if it’s of the same thing, will be slightly different just depending on what camera you take it with. Which one is real? Which one is accurate?
Does it matter?"
Ok, yes. I’m quoting a super popular technical thinker and making abstract comparisons to how we view Jesus. I’m sure there won’t be any pitfalls with that. 😅
This is quote from a video that Marques made where he’s musing about the different kinds of camera phones available today. The general idea of the video is that when you buy a camera (phone or otherwise) you’re really buying into the biases of what that camera maker thinks makes a great photo. What you see when you take a picture is not really the reality of the moment, but what the camera maker deems is the most important aspect of the photo. As AI and computing power increases; it’s likely that our smartphone will insert and manipulate the photo in ways we can’t even imagine to get our approval of a “good photo.” For instance, maybe you take 5 photos and your smartphone stitches them together with the best elements of each photo without you even knowing what it’s doing. Or, you take a picture of the moon and the phone inserts a really good picture of the moon that it already has. Maybe it’s doing that already?
This is the problem with…well…accounts like mine. I’m quoting people and by adding my own art and captions; I’m inserting my own personality and biases to things that other people are saying. I can’t help it, it’s the lens I’m outfitted with. Exactly like in this case, Marques is speaking to camera phones, and I’m trying to relate it to biblical truths.
When it comes to phones, I outsource my decisions to Apple. I assume they’ll take the most pleasing photo. When it comes to faith, I don’t want to outsource my beliefs to a single lens. I’d rather see multiple pictures of the same thing and try to pick out which one I think best represents reality. Or better yet, maybe I want to see the remix? Sometimes that weird camera with the manual focus and the busted viewfinder takes the most interesting picture.
Just stuff I think about.
