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Seriously that you can't see a difference?!

How social media trained us to stop caring about image quality, and a manifesto on how you can stop feeding yourself with digital dog food.

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Raf Lopes (CameraClara.com)
Jun 26, 2025
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That image you saw on social media? It’s a crushed, cropped, butchered version of someone’s work. Lol, maybe even yours.

Are you okay with that?

We’ve accepted the visual equivalent of microwave dinners: fast, easy, and flavorless.

Scroll slower. Open the image. Zoom the right way. Compare. Don’t let algorithms tell you what looks “good enough”. You should…

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