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pet peeve #102

posted November 13, 2003 #

I'm pretty sure I've griped about this before, but I saw lots of examples of it last night and had a few discussions about it.. so I thought I'd bring it up (again).

Pet Peeve #102: The advent of digital camera's gives everyone the ability to quickly, and sometimes cheaply, document all sorts of events in their life.. including live rock shows. Over the past 2 years I can't count the number of digital camera's I've seen held up at shows taking photo's of the act on stage. And while it might be cool to have some sort of digital document about a show you went to by using the built in flash on your camera you are completely ruining the moment. You are creating a moment in time with a big bright white flash drowning out any other stage lights. If your camera can't handle the speed at which photo's need to be taken to capture a live show without a flash - just don't do it. Your pictures are garuanteed to look like total crap (with the possible exception of them being black/white) and it's not serving one of the purposes of photography - capturing a moment, not creating one.

For quick evidence of how proper this is see the works of Jon and Jasper.