Recent technological advances seem to be driving towards making consumer-based photography more of a photographer-less, automated affair. I’m not talking about the likes of autofocus or scene-based metering (although I’m sure they both have their naysayers) that still leave the decision of what to have in focus and what remains in the frame up to the photographer.

The two technologies I’m writing about today are supposed to help the photographer by making some of the decisions for him or her by choosing what to focus on and when to capture the scene. These two technologies are face detection and smile detection.

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