Pray tell what those initials mean. Please. Thanks.
DWHart24 wrote:
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".
I agree that in an action event you lose the perspective of what is happening around you. I shoot dog shows and completely miss the action, judging, and winners because I’m concentrating on specific dogs and shots. Landscape or static shots I think it works the other way.
Writers get paid to write, regardless of the validity of the article.
Personally, I find myself more engaged with what I photograph than that which I just observe.
--Bob
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.
jwest wrote:
I agree that in an action event you lose the perspective of what is happening around you. I shoot dog shows and completely miss the action, judging, and winners because I’m concentrating on specific dogs and shots. Landscape or static shots I think it works the other way.
Yes, I agree, it does depend on the subject and what you're are shooting.
Strong memories are associated with emotion. You will remember things that you're emotionally attached to. The goal in making a great photo is to be able to show the emotion you had and evoke that emotion in the viewer. The distraction of photographic technique and processes will be minimal in a scene that you're emotionally attached to. You'll remember it.
BS for the serious photography but half truth for a snapper like me Hahaha. Shang
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Loc: By the beautiful Hudson
My experience has been just the opposite. As I organize photos after a trip my memory is reinforced as I think about where and when a certain shot was taken. My wife agrees: My slide shows reinforce or even help her realize where we have been and what we have seen.
You make two assertions:
(1) there is a great deal of truth in the fact that snapshots detract from the memory of an experience
(2) But those who take 1000’s of pictures of travel experiences definitely lose the depth of experience.
Please provide Web-links or citations to other sources which support your assertions.
dumbo wrote:
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.
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It may reduce my memory but Photography keeps my mind sharp and alert to the world around me.
I had a comment but I forgot what it was...
Impossible: "The goal in making a great photo is to be able to show the emotion you had and evoke that emotion in the viewer."
As photographers, we cannot put ourselves in the shoes of another to know what touches and moves him or her. But yes, the content of a photograph may affect the mood of the viewer beyond visual pleasure, yet the photographer cannot control this response.
As well, time and circumstance negate this platitude of photography; for example, who after a hundred years will know with any confidence what intention you had in mind when you released the shutter? It is more likely that the social environment of the time and place will influence the perception of the viewer, not something remote to him or her.
Trying to mold a photograph to function as a conduit for felt personal emotion from one to another both limits and distorts the singular purpose of photography as a visual medium of human expression.
gvarner wrote:
Strong memories are associated with emotion. You will remember things that you're emotionally attached to. The goal in making a great photo is to be able to show the emotion you had and evoke that emotion in the viewer. The distraction of photographic technique and processes will be minimal in a scene that you're emotionally attached to. You'll remember it.
anotherview wrote:
You make two assertions:
(1) there is a great deal of truth in the fact that snapshots detract from the memory of an experience
(2) But those who take 1000’s of pictures of travel experiences definitely lose the depth of experience.
Please provide Web-links or citations to other sources which support your assertions.
It comes down to one term. "Sensory Overload". There are many tomes, some centuries old, that speak of it. And many in the field of Psychology. (And a few in the field of Espionage along with sense deprivation.)
We need to define "memory of experience". It is too broad of a term. One may enjoy the minute of the experience just as one enjoying the expanse of the experience. The particulars of the memory vary.
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