...taking a photo undermines your memory
Aug 30, 2018 07:58:32 #
...taking a photo undermines your memory
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. I have taken thousands of pictures over the years and ... and ...
What were we talking about?
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That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. I have taken thousands of pictures over the years and ... and ...
What were we talking about?
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Aug 30, 2018 08:10:00 #
A strong visual penchant will in fact enhance the memory of a given subject.
kjfishman wrote:
We get magazine called Bottom Line. What do you think about the small article...taking a photo undermines your memory ? My wife suggested I take too many photos.
Aug 30, 2018 08:12:38 #
kjfishman wrote:
We get magazine called Bottom Line. What do you think about the small article...taking a photo undermines your memory ? My wife suggested I take too many photos.
It probably depends on whether or not you have a “photographic memory” to begin with.
Aug 30, 2018 08:13:56 #
kjfishman wrote:
We get magazine called Bottom Line. What do you think about the small article...taking a photo undermines your memory ? My wife suggested I take too many photos.
Tell her that you are mentally saturated and need the "outside" memory cells.
We live in an environment that has too many demands for our attention. So our brains do get overloaded. It also happened to our ancestors prior to the age of photography. (Caution: Making a painting undermines your memory.) Add to this that we are far more global in knowing our environment.
As to the study, the Reader's Digest version omits the salient features such as methology, focus on which memory, the relative values of remembered items, the fact of aging, amongst others.
I envision laboratory mice running through mazes with miniature go pro cameras on their heads clicking every time they stop.
Aug 30, 2018 08:16:16 #
kjfishman wrote:
We get magazine called Bottom Line. What do you think about the small article...taking a photo undermines your memory ? My wife suggested I take too many photos.
I think just the opposite is true. I study a scene to compose it properly and bring out the elements I feel are important. I have far more vivid memories of places I have photographed than those I have not.
Aug 30, 2018 08:16:46 #
mizzee
Loc: Boston,Ma
Definitely not buying what they’re selling. My husband has MS and his memory isn’t as sharp as it once was. A few days ago I pulled out the book I’d made from our trip out west. Memories came flooding back for both of us as we enjoyed our trip all over again — sights, smells, people, awe.
Aug 30, 2018 08:17:59 #
Ellen101 wrote:
Oh yeah you tell them
I will always take photos until I am dead or worse
I will always take photos until I am dead or worse
Or run out of charged batteries!
Aug 30, 2018 08:24:14 #
Aug 30, 2018 08:25:37 #
I love this! And I also believe there is some truth to the article for people like me who take far too many pics, the majority being, truth be told, more photojournalism than true art. My memory is bad anyway. I need to pay attention to what Mr. Adam's taught.
quote=lsupremo]Yes, it does undermine your memory if all you do is snap your shutter, but as Ansel Adams told us during a session “if you can’t make it bigger or more important, don’t press the button and just remember forever it as it was”.[/quote]
quote=lsupremo]Yes, it does undermine your memory if all you do is snap your shutter, but as Ansel Adams told us during a session “if you can’t make it bigger or more important, don’t press the button and just remember forever it as it was”.[/quote]
Aug 30, 2018 08:29:52 #
I agree with that article to a certain degree. I shoot a lot of airshows and at times I find myself thinking what it would be like to just watch the show without worrying about getting the shot. It is hard to "take it all in" when you are concentrating on "getting the shot".
Aug 30, 2018 08:35:09 #
Aug 30, 2018 08:38:10 #
Despite all the responses of “rubbish”, there is a great deal of truth in the fact that snapshots detract from the memory of an experience. My wife actually takes far fewer photos than I do. But when she does, she has the eyes of an artist.
Her photographs going back 50 years are simply worthy of professional enlargements. I have graduated from a Rollieflex to Nikons to the SONY mirrorless. A picture can unquestionably help one recall a wonderful moment. But those who take 1000’s of pictures of travel experiences definitely lose the depth of experience.
When we examine contact sheets going back 50 years, it’s hard to relive the experience. However when a UHH photographer works very hard to capture an excellent reproduction of a single experience, their photos can approach the museum-worthy quality of the experience. Many of our UHH friends have to deny the reality of in-depth experience.
One is always entitled to what they feel and believe.
Her photographs going back 50 years are simply worthy of professional enlargements. I have graduated from a Rollieflex to Nikons to the SONY mirrorless. A picture can unquestionably help one recall a wonderful moment. But those who take 1000’s of pictures of travel experiences definitely lose the depth of experience.
When we examine contact sheets going back 50 years, it’s hard to relive the experience. However when a UHH photographer works very hard to capture an excellent reproduction of a single experience, their photos can approach the museum-worthy quality of the experience. Many of our UHH friends have to deny the reality of in-depth experience.
One is always entitled to what they feel and believe.
Aug 30, 2018 08:43:41 #
Aug 30, 2018 08:46:33 #
Aug 30, 2018 08:50:52 #
kjfishman wrote:
We get magazine called Bottom Line. What do you think about the small article...taking a photo undermines your memory ? My wife suggested I take too many photos.
There may be a reason it is a "small" article. UC Santa Cruz, perhaps the researchers were drunk on wine when they conducted the study. Real reason: They weren't close enough! Odd, I remember taking a majority of my better photographs, at least remembering where and possibly why they were taken. Exposure setting, equipment, only perhaps to not at all.
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