The first time I truly trusted autofocus, I was standing on a busy street, camera in hand, trying to capture the fleeting expressions of passersby in afternoon light. It was a moment ripe with potential, yet my fingers hesitated. Tentatively, I pressed the shutter, and the result was a revelation—a crisp, perfectly timed photograph I couldn't have captured alone.

The other day, I was reading the blog post “Not being able to see very clearly is believing” written by Joerg Colberg, and it made me ask myself a question - why do people find lo-fi video and mobile phone images more believable?

(and that’s a good thing)

It happens every year. A new camera drops, the specs sound unbelievable, and suddenly your perfectly fine setup starts to feel… dated. You scroll through YouTube reviews, watch side-by-side comparisons, and convince yourself that your creative ceiling must be the limits of your current gear…

Let's be honest — being a photographer in the age of social media can feel like juggling flaming cameras. Instagram, Threads, Facebook, Twitter/X, Flickr, YouTube, TikTok, maybe even a podcast... It's endless. And if you listen to the general noise online, it sounds like you must do it all. But do you?

Photography has continually evolved with technology. Film gave way to digital. Darkrooms gave way to Photoshop. Now we’re in the middle of another major shift: artificial intelligence. But this one doesn’t just speed things up, it’s changing what it even means to create a photograph.