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Why do GOOD people love BAD photography?

Why do so many people modify their photos to resemble an image taken by a poor quality camera? Here’s a sample of the filtered, post processed, “how ugly can I make this photo” results from Instagram, one of several popular photo defacement apps for the iPhone.

If you understand this baffling phenomena, please comment or send me email.

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  • http://blog.rfquerin.org Rfquerin

    I think mostly it’s a low-effort way of dressing up a photo. Though there can be a purpose to applying a vignette (eg. to draw attention to a specific feature of a shot). Also, because you’re no doubt dealing with a source photo of mediocre quality (cam phone) the risk is low.
    That all said, I like using PicPlz (mostly for it’s phone->Picplz->Posterous->Identica workflow), but I find myself posting the stock photo without any effect most of the time now.

  • http://nfriedly.com/ Nathan Friedly

    While it might not technically be an improvement in image quality, it does allow you to control what’s wrong with the image. That gives it a perceived improvement in quality, at least in the eyes of the photographer, because “I meant to do that”. (AKA “It’s artistic.”) That’s my best guess anyways…

  • http://sparkleapple.blogspot.com/ Lina Kim ♥

    ahaha… my fren did this to her image too. she loves blurry pic more than hd pic. she said she looks better in blurry pic 

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