After the invention of the camera, it became questionable whether the photographic technologyrepresented reality or to what extent it represented reality. The first period of reality debates focused on mainlyabout the replacement of reality with elements such lens selection, depth of field, exposure, angle, framing andcomposition, while recent reality debates are about the disappearance of human qualities (illusion, idea,consciousness, image, desire, scene, relationship). Again, the current debates that in the digital image era,photography has disappeared, that the image cannot understand digital images, that the subjective aspect ofreality has been destroyed, and that there has been a different visual image era that cannot be called a photo.While the concepts of natural magic, illusion, thinking, appearing and disappearing gained during the analogueperiod of the photograph refer to the reality of the photograph and give the photograph a unique form, theready-made codes loaded on the camera before the photographing process; manipulations and algorithmicprocesses during shooting have eliminated the reality of the photograph. In this study, the notion of reality wasput into a conceptual framework and definition and the transformation of photographic reality with thetransition from analogue photography to digital photography was tried to be explained and literature reviewmethod was used. In this study, the concepts such as aura (halo), spectra, studium, punctum, which are used toexplain photographic reality are discussed in the context of analog and digital photography and the humanaspect of reality is aimed to be revealed.