This blog has been written exclusively for all the budding photographers around.Gone are the days when you would buy a film role of 36 photos.
With the digital age there is no limit on the number of photos one can take.
Now is this a bad thing? Lets check out.
Today every Tom, Dick and Sally has a digital camera in his hand. Yes ‘his’ applies to all the three. At every function people are more interested in capturing the moment rather than living it.
Here we come across some of our new age irritants.
At a wedding, often times its someone like the bride or grooms brother, who owns a Nikon digi-cam but is too pre-occupied with other things to take pics on his own. He comes and hands over his camera to you and says .. Hey I'm very busy please go ahead and click some snaps.
Dude !!! If I wanted to click snaps I would have brought my own camera.
Mind you they would have already hired a professional photographer for the event and he would be on the job. Just because You don't have the time or patience to click your own snaps, Why me ???
Next time someone does this to you, Here’s what you do. Click away to glory. The floor , peoples feet , the wall, the windows , heads cut-off, Pics taken at 60 degree angles.
Do this once, and there will be one less person who will approach you with this kind of a request in future.
After the the pics are taken. It’s now time to view the results.
Here we come across the next set of irritants.
The first kind send their digital photos, each file minimum 1mb in size attached in an email to your official work mail id. This freakin mail comes before some important work related email and jams up your entire in-box.
Then we have the “Internet literate” folks who know how to use a photo sharing website.
A decade ago in the age of film roles, you were normally subjected to viewing only 36 photos that anyone clicked.
Today with memory sticks costing a dime; the 36 photos have become a minimum of 360 photos.
The flexibility of the digital era is that you can check the results of the pic you captured and delete the ones that don’t stand out. Useful feature eh ?
Well not really. Looks like most folks are not aware that they can do this. So they end up uploading all the 360 pics they clicked.
They send you this link to their album, where the concentration of images is more than that at Google Earth.
Its not uncommon to find 5 pics of the same person all taken within an interval of 10 milliseconds. You click the first picture and it’s the brides brother in the blue shirt, click Next and it’s the brides brother in the blue shirt. This time his face has moved about 0.05 inches to the left. Click next and it’s the brides brother in the blue shirt his face has now moved 0.10 inches to the left. Next click and wow this time it’s the brides bother in the blue shirt his face has moved a full 0.15 inches when compared to the first pic of him.
If its your lucky day then you will also find pics of the wall, doors and windows uploaded.
A note of advice to our friends who upload these gazillion pics. Remember these 360 photos are not images of Eva Longoria Or Kathrina Kaif in skimpy outfits. Rather they are photos of your retired uncle, his 4 married children in their 30’s, the neighbour Mr Rammurthy and his oversized wife, their maid and their pesky 2 kids whose mission for the day seems to be to destroy all the balloons and the other decorations in the hall.
Think people are going to view all these 360 images?. You would be lucky if they glanced through all the thumbnails.
My advice to all. Pick out your best photos and upload not more than 20 - 25 images .
Have another link on the page which says 'More photos…'. People who want to view all the pics will click on this link and do so.
