The curse of digital photography

05.26.2008

I read a digital photography article that said (to paraphrase) “When I shot on film I couldn’t help but hear the jingle of 22 cents every time the shutter clicked. There was always a little voice in the back of my mind, laughing at the waste of the money on the shot I had just taken. Digital photography removes that nagging voice because every shot is effectively free”. This is how I feel about digital photography as well. There’s no shot worth taking that isn’t worth taking twice, just in case. The only real limitation is how much battery and memory you have available and these are miniscule in comparison to buying and processing film. The problem, of source, is what happens next. Organizing this mass of images is quite a task as you can see from this screen. This is a single night’s worth of images. Most of them are not awesome but a pretty good percentage are good and the more pictures I take the better the odds are that I end up with some which are awesome. So shutter, shutter, shutter I do. Tonight there is nothing to do but organize the weekend’s evidence.

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4 Responses to “The curse of digital photography”
  1. Manduh says:

    Much more interesting, thank you! THe first couple pictures from Blue Martini everyone looks confused

  2. Manduh says:

    we might have more comments if we could see these pictures closer.

  3. Matt says:

    I am more creeped out by the one with Todd doggy styling.

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