Selfie-stick ban
Sep 14, 2015 11:10:54 #
alliebess
Loc: suburban Philadelphia
Brad F wrote:
Morning and read your post and it reminded me of a cartoon I saw last week in our local paper. I work for a studio and we have 38 school under contract for fall and spring pictures. Hope it never comes to this.
Have a great Monday!!
Have a great Monday!!
Love that cartoon - and, like you, I hope it never comes to be.
Sep 14, 2015 11:55:47 #
Brad F wrote:
Morning and read your post and it reminded me of a cartoon I saw last week in our local paper. I work for a studio and we have 38 school under contract for fall and spring pictures. Hope it never comes to this.
Have a great Monday!!
Have a great Monday!!
Love it!
Framing it!
Saw this one in Photoshop User magazine:
Could be titled: "How do pro's shoot selfies?"
(that's a Pentax medium format digital on the stick)
Sep 14, 2015 12:04:10 #
Joanna27
Loc: Lakewood Ca
Erik_H wrote:
I caught my daughter-in-law taking a selfie with her iPhone. I said, "If you have to do it, at least do it right"...
Cute!
Sep 14, 2015 12:04:11 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Love it!
Framing it!
Saw this one in Photoshop User magazine:
Framing it!
Saw this one in Photoshop User magazine:
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Sep 14, 2015 12:05:34 #
Joanna27
Loc: Lakewood Ca
blackest wrote:
I don't think that is fair, a lot of people used to use digital compact camera's and now use cell phones and the quality is probably better than their older camera's. Does it matter if they use a cell phone / camera?
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Sep 14, 2015 13:24:37 #
MtnMan wrote:
Ran across a number of linked articles on selfie-stick bans, from Disney parks to a pilgrimage in India. Thank heavens. I hope the U.S. National Parks do one soon. The Asian tourists in particular have become a hazard in the more crowded places and I'm sure we'll get reports is them doing stupid things while using them. They annoy me when the block trails and views and swing them around into people.
It is their right to be annoying. Why should you care that they annoy you and possibly could cause harm? So what if they block trails etc., there are no rules against their use except where you noted. Who are you to try to impose restrictions on their use?
Sep 14, 2015 14:33:57 #
paulrph1 wrote:
I agree and I have posted photos of my grandchildren but I do not post photos because are of my grandchildren. I post them because I think they are worthy. Besides they are my cheapest and most accessible models.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:51:11 #
I think they were a nice invention.... not for me since I do not photograph well, however, courtesy was invented years ago and should still be enforced. I don't believe they should be used in public places where they interfere with others enjoyment of whatever it is, especially if it has been paid for. These last generations of rude young people (even if they are in the "I" stage), can really test the nerves.
Sep 14, 2015 15:09:53 #
Bobgood1 wrote:
I have never understood this " Selfie." Those kind of people seem to be so caught up in their selves and think the rest of the world is interested in seeing picture of them in various settings. I think it is arrogant. Just my opinion. bb
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Sep 14, 2015 15:17:15 #
Effate
Loc: El Dorado Hills, Ca.
Old Grey Beard wrote:
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Unfortunately I don!t have time to read the many pages of this feed as I am dodging selfie sticks as we speak in Rome. All of the umbrella salesmen are now promoting and selling cell phone selfie sticks so everyone is a neophyte abuser of the stick. I have mixed emotions regarding the stick. If appropriately employed it is a way someone or a group or family can memorialize a trip or event much like most of you may have done with a self timer on your tripod without bothering you who, with your equipment have been asked a million times to be the selfie stick because you look like you know what you are doing. The problem is inconsideration. The same people who abuse the stick are the same people who have no consideration for spatial relationships, people who invade your space, people who park their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle at Costco to feed their family at the sample promotions, etc. it's not that all who use the stick are inconsiderate it's about general inconsideration.
Sep 14, 2015 15:35:30 #
Sep 14, 2015 15:38:51 #
Effate wrote:
Unfortunately I don!t have time to read the many p... (show quote)
Perhaps they are also drone users when not being inconsiderate with the selfie stick? :D
Sep 14, 2015 15:54:04 #
Read this thread early today then went to dentist. July 27 Time Mag in waiting room had a bit about selfless in 1940's. Seems a photog named Gjon Mili invited celebrities to take self portraits in his studio using a remote controller for the shutter. Some of these portraits can be seen at life.time.com Not so different from selfles of today.
As for kids taking pictures relentlessly, may of the young people I see are using these as, or as part of, a diary. This seems to help them fasten the images in their minds and to process what they are experiencing to better understand life. IMO It isn't all bad.
As for kids taking pictures relentlessly, may of the young people I see are using these as, or as part of, a diary. This seems to help them fasten the images in their minds and to process what they are experiencing to better understand life. IMO It isn't all bad.
Sep 14, 2015 16:10:13 #
I take selfies all the time, I don't see why there's such a hate on for them. The good thing about selfies is I'm always a willing participant.
Two quick examples:
http://www.christopherjamessmith.ca/img/s10/v105/p259503676-2.jpg
http://www.christopherjamessmith.ca/img/s/v-2/p667539342-2.jpg
Are the people complaining only doing so because of the actual stick or the subject? I see nothing wrong with using oneself as a subject for photography as per the examples above.
I see selfie sticks no different than photographers who set up tripods in the middle of the path or expect tourists to avoid walking in some tourist location when they don't have an exclusivity permit.
Two quick examples:
http://www.christopherjamessmith.ca/img/s10/v105/p259503676-2.jpg
http://www.christopherjamessmith.ca/img/s/v-2/p667539342-2.jpg
Are the people complaining only doing so because of the actual stick or the subject? I see nothing wrong with using oneself as a subject for photography as per the examples above.
I see selfie sticks no different than photographers who set up tripods in the middle of the path or expect tourists to avoid walking in some tourist location when they don't have an exclusivity permit.
Sep 14, 2015 17:03:00 #
g8rfan1942 wrote:
I have been taking photographs since I was ten years old (I'm 73 now) and can come up with fewer than 20 photos with me in them , not counting wedding pix. I'm always on the other end of a camera. When I am photographing a beautiful scene the last thing I want to see is my ugly mug in the middle of the shot. Whoever invented the selfie stick should be spanked and sent to bed with no supper :lol:
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