Sunday, January 03, 2010

Say cheesed

At events where a large group congregated (such as, for example, recent holiday parties) and those people assembled for a group photo, it's pretty much a given that a number of digital cameras will be proffered to the person(s) offering to take the picture, with the plea to "take one with my camera, too." If there are more than, say, five such cameras to be used (possibly fewer, depending on the patience of the group), it's almost certain that someone in the group will utter the sentence, "Come on, that's enough; those pictures can be emailed to the rest of us," and the assembled crowd will disband.

In that scenario, two things are almost certainly true:

1. The person who declared the number taken had been "enough" was not someone who did not get a picture on his or her camera; either the person did not had a camera, or the one offered had already gotten a photo taken with it.

2. In none of the photos that were taken will there be a single one where everybody in the shot is looking at the lens, with no one blinking or making a face that is less than ideal.

There is no herding large numbers of regular humans for the purpose of photography.

1 comment:

  1. Bring back the old days of photography with long shutter speeds like a second or more. People had to sit down with a neck brace behind them so they wouldn't move. Bring back the neck braces!

    As for blinking, don't you have one of the new digital cameras that removes both red eye and blinks?

    Ray

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