{"id":12677,"date":"2018-09-20T06:59:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=12677"},"modified":"2018-09-19T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:27:08","slug":"instagram-yes-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/instagram-yes-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"instagram – yes or no?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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an example of the Instagram account @insta_repeat<\/a> image showing the similarity of shots (courtesy of Globe and Mail)<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. To Instagram or not, that is the question<\/a><\/em> to paraphrase the Bard’s words in Hamlet<\/em>. In Wednesday’s Globe<\/a> columnist Dave McGinn<\/a> raises a timely question: Is Instagram ruining travel photography<\/a>?<\/p>\n

McGinn discusses the pros and cons of social media in its impact on travel photography. He notes that the proliferation of smart phones and the popularity of social media has pushed amateur photographers to take photographs that generate the most “likes”. To do this tends to mean the most popular kind of shot at any given location is snapped endlessly by amateurs, restricting the creativity of them and professionals.<\/p>\n

He found an Instagram accoun<\/a>t that groups all like taken photos so you can draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. To Instagram or not, that is the question to paraphrase the Bard’s words in Hamlet. In Wednesday’s Globe columnist Dave McGinn raises a timely question: Is Instagram ruining travel photography? McGinn discusses the pros and cons of social media … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[256,30,393,2216,339,220,2215],"class_list":["post-12677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-globe","tag-images","tag-instagram","tag-mcginn","tag-photographs","tag-photos","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12685,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions\/12685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}