10-01-2016, 12:13 PM
Maybe you are right, I sound a little bitter. But I don't have anything against selfies, I remember my last holiday in Wales in 2000 (I haven't been on holiday since, because of severe backproblems). I traveled alone and at the south-west coast I set my Canon EOS 50E on a tripod, set off the selftimer and took a picture of me and the stunning coastline.
And I enjoy watching photographs from other people's holidays, also the ones with the people themselves on it, but when you see 10-20 or even more of the same images in a row, the fun is short lived. Because it doesn't cost anything to take a photograph, people keep on snapping. In the film era, people took more thought before pressing the button, because it costed money and so the people were more cautious. Of course many bad composition have been made too back then, but in general the pictures were better from the general public.
And I found myself also taking just too many pictures, because of the same reason. It doens't cost me anything and you can always erase the ones you didn't like afterwards and if the harddrive is full, I can buy a bigger one. And hence I have to go through tons of mediocre images and it would cost me so much time to sift through them, that it started to annoy me. I even lost the love for photography, because of it. Pictures where 'stacking' up, without ever watching and post-processing them, because there were just too many.
So, I try to go back to the old way of working I used to do in the film era. Is the scene or subject really worth capturing? If the answer is yes, then the next step is finding out the best possible composition and not taking the subject from 5 different angles and hope there is one good one. It slows you down, but that's a plus, because I am much more focused and it is much more enjoyable to experience the process instead of snapping aways without much thought. It is like a treasure hunt.
Kind regards,
Reinier
And I enjoy watching photographs from other people's holidays, also the ones with the people themselves on it, but when you see 10-20 or even more of the same images in a row, the fun is short lived. Because it doesn't cost anything to take a photograph, people keep on snapping. In the film era, people took more thought before pressing the button, because it costed money and so the people were more cautious. Of course many bad composition have been made too back then, but in general the pictures were better from the general public.
And I found myself also taking just too many pictures, because of the same reason. It doens't cost me anything and you can always erase the ones you didn't like afterwards and if the harddrive is full, I can buy a bigger one. And hence I have to go through tons of mediocre images and it would cost me so much time to sift through them, that it started to annoy me. I even lost the love for photography, because of it. Pictures where 'stacking' up, without ever watching and post-processing them, because there were just too many.
So, I try to go back to the old way of working I used to do in the film era. Is the scene or subject really worth capturing? If the answer is yes, then the next step is finding out the best possible composition and not taking the subject from 5 different angles and hope there is one good one. It slows you down, but that's a plus, because I am much more focused and it is much more enjoyable to experience the process instead of snapping aways without much thought. It is like a treasure hunt.
Kind regards,
Reinier