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Data Photography

This is a definition that needed to be identified and addressed here to separate it from the term "digital photography". The term "digital photography" has been very popular worldwide and we all know what that means. Basically it is the term used to define the methodology that the photograph is recorded digitally in electronic media format instead of film. It is a well adopted definition. The data photography, however, is trying to address the fact that once the photograph is recorded through the electronic digital methodology, it is then being processed as data via a file system, on computing devices or equipments, even on the same digital camera using the embedded operating system and file system with the specifically designed application programs to manage, store, edit, modify, back, archive, send over Internet, or any data level photographic operations in variety of ways. Upon all of these processes or operations, the photograph is treated as data, and the meaning of "digital" makes a very weak sense in these post photograph-taken operations.

The reason to address the "data photography" here is that the data, no matter how it was processed, it stays with the photograph as a unique feature of this data. Here we will see the different data formats, such as psd, tiff, jpeg, etc., different categories of applications programs used or applied to the specific photograph with specific purposes, etc., therefore the data photography makes good sense that it should be more accurate to address the photography in the post photo-capture stage.

It is still under the photography category but more tend to address the nature of "DATA" instead of "DIGITAL" from the fact that how it was implemented.

This concept should help photographers in a way to pay more attention to the "DATA" related information technologies in their storage, computing, editing, and publishing as well as security, instead of the "digital" category definition.

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