One of the problems with this whole photography caper is that once I start clicking the shutter I find it difficult to stop.
Classic example occurred this morning.
There was I sat quietly minding my own business doing stuff on the computer when I happened to glance up. And attention was attracted to the sunlight shining on the spines of a coupla books.
“Hmm”, thinks I, “that might make an interesting shot. Evocative, sort of”. So out comes the camera.
Fatal! Next thing I know I’m wandering all over the house hunting down the glints of sunlight… and the shadows caused thereby.
Loads of pics… but only a handful worth keeping. Didn’t find that out though till after I’d transferred them to the computer and imported into Lightroom. So I have to ask myself, was all that time and effort worth the result of adding yet another four or five meaningless (and not very good) shots to my growing collection?
Y’see, that’s one of the problems I’ve found with photography… its addictive!
I know just how you feel. There was what I thought would be a most fantastic picture of moonlight cascading across my bed the other night. But without a charged battery for the camera (damn having no electricity) I couldn’t snap the shot.
And as the moon rises an hour later each night I wasn’t interested in being up at 2:00 a.m. to snap the picture once I had a charged battery.
I often see things that I think will make great pictures because they look good right there in person. Often I’m mistaken. There is something lost in the translation between the eye/brain combination and the camera. I don’t know why or what it is, but it happens so frequently as to be annoying.
So true! But still gotta keep on trying
I have the same problem. Great pictures by the way and they were worth the time. I just bought a new point and shoot, yesterday, and I have been walking around with it in my pocket searching for any picture that would look cool or anything to take a picture of. I think I have taken about 10 of my dorm room just to take pictures of something. I really think everyone has that problem of stopping once they get rolling.
Thanks Maggie.
So what point’n'shoot did you get? I keep feeling the urge to get one to replace my now rather aging and somewhat cumbersome DiMAGE Z6 (Konica Minolta), but have kept putting it off against the time my budget could stretch to the Canon G9 (cos it shoots RAW as well). And now I hear Canon’s rolling out the G10. Damn!
But yeah… if/when I do get one I just know that, like you, I’d instantly be out on a pic-hunting mission. And probably end up shooting the wall, the floor, the ceiling… oh, anything really.
I hade a Nikon Colpix L 3 that I got about 2 years ago. But I acidently dropped it a few times so the focus is off and the battery part is tapped shut. I decided that it was time for a new one. The new one I got is a kodak easy share M763. I love it and I recomend it.
Good luck with picking out a new point and shot.
Pity about the Nikon. From what I’ve seen of their point’n'shoots they produce some pretty good pics. But these things happen. Good argument for getting one of those nifty Olympus ones that’re waterproof, shockproof and the rest of it. Used to have one myself but passed it on to a friend.
Still, I’ll be interested to see what the Kodak can do, so’ll be keeping an eye on your blog.
