Digital Imagery

1. Digital images are everywhere. Any given website shows you ads on the side bars, which is the main exposure of digital images. They can give you a lot of information, but they don't always show you the whole truth. Images are used on YouTube in the form of thumbnails, which tend to represent the most dramatic or on topic image of what the video is about. The other important thing to keep in mind is that these images are more likely than not edited, heavily. Which also interferes with how they represent the original idea.

2. In my personal life, digital images don't effect me that much personally. The two main media sources I view are YouTube and Instagram, however I personally don't view either that often. I do understand that images on Instagram show a slim image of reality, that almost every image is a replication that is edited to look better. The other part of this is that digital images can crop reality, that you only see the positives that people want to show you. As much as images are manipulated, I personally have chosen to not view this as much as others.

3. You can easily take in the world incorrectly, with false pretenses if you only see images online. You can create this false expectation of what is suggested so easily because you have no way of knowing how real the image is.

4. Digital imagery tends to dance around ethics and uses aesthetics as an excuse. The idea of digital imagery was originally positive but it have been abused to the point where there is no security and no trust that the image you're viewing is real. Although editing can have its benefits, and allows people to create beautiful art, it has been used to misguide and exaggerate images for economic and social gain. I believe editing for aesthetics is best when it is minimal, and not distracting. However this idea will always have its positives and negatives.