Instagram.

After purchasing an iPhone, a device that is absolutely amazing and useful for everything, I have downloaded many apps, from games, to converters and of course Facebook. My friends often tease me about my 'rookie error' apps that I have. Apparently I've got some that were popular many moons ago.

I'm probably a bit behind on this one too, but I have recently fell in love with Instagram. For those who are like me and a little behind the times, it's a photo sharing website, however you can edit pictures in the most exquisite ways. I am pretty much obsessed and I now find myself taking pictures of random objects in my college room and putting them on Instagram.

When I was out exercising this morning and taking a picture of the Brisbane river, I had a sudden thought. Instagram gives an old photo of anything a touch of real photography, as if it was taken by a professional camera. Photographers and professional cameramen must HATE Instagram for this reason. Any person can create something beautiful on this app. Photographers spend HOURS of time trying to get a perfect shot of something or someone.

I am not saying that Instagram's quality of pictures is better than ones taken by an SLR camera, for instance, but people who don't know a lot about photography would not appreciate the amount of time a professional photographer needs to create something spectacular.

Just a thought. I had to write it down and share it on this blog as it does tie in with the media use diary I did back in March. A few things to think about there.