Is Instagram Helping Or Hurting Travel Photography?

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Jessica - definitely thought provoking, although a lot of professional photographers are also doctoring THEIR photos too, right?

As much as we all want to blame Instagram for introducing us all to the silly filters on your shots, they're certainly not the first nor the most powerful. Hipstamatic was been doing this for awhile before Instagram even existed and Adobe Photoshop pretty much does the same thing too, albeit in a incredibly more powerful way than Instagram.

I think Instagram is a bit like the polaroid camera of digital photography, in that it's introducing a whole new range of people to the hobby who would not be doing it otherwise. Some of those people who really love travel photography will ultimately move on to (arguably) more refined forms of taking photos down the line.

My take is that if an app encourages more people to get out there and take photos when traveling, that's a good thing.

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