This time of the year Dubai gets a host of avid sightseers and tourists, armed with camera phones and professional cameras to ‘capture’ everything.
As I was waiting for someone and I noticed two groups of people, one were those that were enjoying the fishes and sharks and absorbing all the visual memories (dubai mall aquarium) while the other group was busy shifting a little to the left, fixing their hair, moving in tighter and busy getting their pictures taken. The images were examined on the camera screens, approvals were given and then clicking started again.
In spending so much time recording the moment, do you think one loses the true value?
This time of the year Dubai gets a host of avid sightseers and tourists, armed with camera phones and professional cameras to 'capture' everything.
As I was waiting for someone and I noticed two groups of people, one were those that were enjoying the fishes and sharks and absorbing all the visual memories (dubai mall aquarium) while the other group was busy shifting a little to the left, fixing their hair, moving in tighter and busy getting their pictures taken. The images were examined on the camera screens, approvals were given and then clicking started again.
In spending so much time recording the moment, do you think one loses the true value?
If you're the one with the camera......and you see your friends/family so mesmerized by the the fish/sights..............TAKE A PICTURE. You don't even have to tell them to look at you and say cheese....because for some people....that may make them self-conscious. Mix up the pictures. Take some pictures (without warning) where you don't tell them to look at you....and take some where you do grab their attention. That way you'll have a variety.
I don't think that you "lose the true value". Yeah, sure, taking pictures without warning will look more "natural." But if your friends and family are truly having a good time......then those positive feelings will reflect in their facial expressions.....EVEN... in those photographs where they "moved a bit closer...and adjusted their hair....and posed a bit." Why feel that you have to make choice between either photographs or the experience. The pictures can capture the experience? One contains the other...they don't have to be separated.
This time of the year Dubai gets a host of avid sightseers and tourists, armed with camera phones and professional cameras to 'capture' everything.
As I was waiting for someone and I noticed two groups of people, one were those that were enjoying the fishes and sharks and absorbing all the visual memories (dubai mall aquarium) while the other group was busy shifting a little to the left, fixing their hair, moving in tighter and busy getting their pictures taken. The images were examined on the camera screens, approvals were given and then clicking started again.
In spending so much time recording the moment, do you think one loses the true value?
It has to be a good balance. Not to lose the experience of the moment but also to be able to record the event.
There is no strong visual memory. It is short lasting. So pictures are important.