I get a bit funny about cameras.
I don't mind having my photo taken as such, but it annoys me how people are the need to document everything. If it's a special event, or holiday or whatever fine, but the rest of it is stupid.
there is a wonderful moment in a Dylan Moran stand up where he berates a woman in the audience for taking photos, something about how she doesn't need to prove she was there, as she is on fact there, and comedy is lost in a photo.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Oct 2012, 8:47, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

You're wrong.
That is all.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 8:50, Reply)

scarpe does the most excellent photos

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 8:51, Reply)

Does he? I ought to check them out.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 8:53, Reply)

You were probably pissed when he mentioned it

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 8:54, Reply)

What, did he mention it this morning then?
*Chin, chin*
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 8:58, Reply)

lols

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:01, Reply)

Why am i wrong?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Oct 2012, 8:59, Reply)

See below.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:02, Reply)

Actually, you're not completely wrong.
I'd never take photos at a stand up gig or a play or similar. Unless it was one I was involved in or had been asked to photograph. And actually, i don't understand people who just randomly snap at everything using their phone. But taking the time to experience what is around you and take proper, thought out, considered photographs is a joy.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 8:53, Reply)

This is one of the downsides of digital
When film was expensive and you only got 24/36 shots on a roll, plus the cost of developing, you thought more about whether to shoot or not. Now my camera holds 4000 or more pics at once, and you tend to shoot everything in the hope that one will be good.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 8:59, Reply)

True.
Although it's swings and roundabouts really, because it does make you more willing to experiment when you know it's not costing you a fortune to do so.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:01, Reply)

Yes, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages by a long way
you can bracket exposures, etc. Also digital sees better in low light than film, or is that just me?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:07, Reply)

Its all about the exposure

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:13, Reply)

I agree,
Those that are serious photographers, hobbyists or whatever, fine. But the guys with their mobiles held above their head a gigs, or wandering around a party taking photos of every last thing for their facebook wall can jog on.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:06, Reply)

Yeah, see, told you I'd changed my mind and you weren't totally wrong.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:08, Reply)

Every month, we rent out the upstairs bar to a photographer down the road,
he gets models in for people to learn how to take good photos, and some of the better ones just hire the model and get on with it. There is a strange mix of fat, unpleasant men that i'm almost sure are only there to get photos for their wank bank, and a couple of amazing photographers, who take some incredible shots, and not just the girls, one guy did a whole load just in the kitchen upstairs. There is a lot of skill that i'm sure i know nothing about.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:12, Reply)

Tell me more about these models
*unzips*
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:22, Reply)

on of them had a mole on her breast.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:49, Reply)

must have been well trained if the flashes didn't startle it

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 10:10, Reply)

this^
....has uploaded 200 photos to "MEntAl Nitgh out dooN tha B1Gg M4rk3t"
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:09, Reply)

I don't know what kind of pics they expect to get
The flash range of most cameras is 15ft or so at best, and in stage lighting anything moving will just be a washed - out blur.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:10, Reply)

i liked the olympic opening ceremony when all the UK and US athletes came out
holding their stupid fucking iPhones up, recording the crowd, recording them.

stupid fucking run-fast pricks obviously didn't realise someone was filming the whole thing for them already, so not only did they ignore the very people they were there to represent, but they stood, grinning like fucking jump-high and swim-quick mongs, drooling at a tiny screen as entire nations cheered them on.

stupid fucking bendy, athletic cunts
(quintsy, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:11, Reply)

but they got some medals, so that's ok

(quintsy, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:12, Reply)

And when they watch it back later
all it'll be is a black screen with occasional flashes of light in the distance, some gurning fuckwits every so often, to a distorted George Michael soundtrack.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:16, Reply)

THEY ARE THE NATIONS HEROES YOU PRICK

(quintsy, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:18, Reply)

Cheryl Cole wasn't in it?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:20, Reply)

she can fuck off an all the bland as fuck geordie spastic racist shitbitch

(quintsy, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 9:21, Reply)