Nov
2011
Digital Cameras Have Turned Me Into a Monster
Do you remember back to the days where you would go on vacation and then have to trudge down to the developers and pay an arm and a leg to get all of those pictures developed? Eventually you became more picky with what you shot as you hated the bill.
… I kinda miss those days.
Each night I have come back to my room and popped my memory card into my laptop to import the photos to iPhoto in case anything should happen to the memory card. Tonight set a new personal record with 240 pictures to import. Between the Churchill War Museum, the London Museum of Film and Big Ben shot from every conceivable angle (you can click the image on the right for the full-sized one, although I shook a tiny bit in taking this one), I was a picture taking machine today.
Is this a good thing? True, it really isn’t costing me any money, but five years from now is anyone going to care – myself included – that I took a good chunk of these images? Who knows, for now it makes me happy knowing I’ve documented so much of this trip I’ve always wanted to go on, and I’ll worry about if anyone cares about the images another day … or possibly never.
Luis | December 1st, 2011 at 10:50 am #
240 photos in one day in London? Are you kidding me? I take that many shots when we take Ponta to the park. Amateur.
The thing is, that's how you take good photos: take a zillion, and one in 10 or 20 is bound to be good. Professionals don't just take one shot of their subject, they take tons. At the park, I just lower my camera to "dog" height, point the camera at Ponta, and blindly snap dozens of photos as we walk along. Most turn out terrible. But the good ones turn out great. Trying to earnestly frame the shot in one attempt, as I would have with chemical film, would have taken three times as long and wouldn't have gotten as good results.
So long as you're OK with taking the time to sort out the good ones at the end of the day, no problem. Delete the rest if the volume bugs you.