09-13-2012, 10:26 PM
I've no shame in taking fifty photos from slightly different angles, not composing them, just slowing panning and tilting the camera, and I'm not even looking at it. Since I almost never take a photo without a person in it, there's only so much composing I could do, anyhow. You don't know when somebody will point or turn just the right way.
Anyhow, it's not the size of the library that gives me the shivers. It's that everybody has a phone or camera, and everybody takes 100 photos. Take a riverboat cruise on the Seine, everybody has their camera out the whole time. A middle school graduation, fifty parents are holding their cameras over the crowd. And for crying out loud, some cameras make noise with every snapshot! I don't think you can even turn off the camera sound on an iPhone, can you? Sitting in an audience at a ballet recital, sometimes all you hear is fake camera clicks and whirs.
Anyhow, it's not the size of the library that gives me the shivers. It's that everybody has a phone or camera, and everybody takes 100 photos. Take a riverboat cruise on the Seine, everybody has their camera out the whole time. A middle school graduation, fifty parents are holding their cameras over the crowd. And for crying out loud, some cameras make noise with every snapshot! I don't think you can even turn off the camera sound on an iPhone, can you? Sitting in an audience at a ballet recital, sometimes all you hear is fake camera clicks and whirs.