Taking Digital Pictures

We are getting Photo crazy.

We are now so used to taking digital pictures, and looking at images everywhere, in advertising, shop-windows, billboards, newspapers, magazines, everywhere. In fact, we have images telling us to take images.

The danger is that images will become meaningless.

Capturing an image years ago was seen as something special, nowadays, taking digital pictures is so routine that we do it almost without thinking, and digital photography makes it even easier. We are now seeing cell-phones with 12mp cameras and built in flashes, so we could ask, is it a PHONE with a camera, or camera with a phone.

Respect the Image

Taking digital pictures should be seen as something special, the ability to capture a moment in time, a snap-shot of life, whether it’s your life or indeed someone else’s, we can even look back in time. An image that can stir the emotions, of loved ones now departed, or a childhood now gone, all of these and more are held forever as an image on paper, or images on a disc, to be viewed on a big screen, or on your PC, or as prints.

Take care shooting

And yet we just click away, pointing our camera, or phone, at whatever is plonked in front of us, digital making it easy to store on a disc or card, waiting for a future generation to reveal the memories again. Well, just spare a thought of what images you want people to see, just snaps or pictures that stir the imagination and bring back vivid memories.

Yes, we can take snaps to record something quickly but we also have a responsibility to take pictures that are worth looking at, and pictures that are worth leaving behind, so that future generations can look back and have their soul stirred.

So whenever you are taking digital pictures just take that extra second to have a second look, don’t be too hasty to shoot and move on, you may never return, either to the place or the person, so make the picture count.

It’s not just the camera.

Taking Digital Pictures is like any art-form it starts in the imagination, and getting the shot you want takes perseverance and experience, as well as knowing how to use your camera.