Ever wonder if you take too many pictures?
I think my great-grandparents only took a couple in their lifetimes.
My grandfather and father took dozens of rolls a year.
I have boxes of them from my younger days that haven’t been looked at since the day they came back from the processor. May never be looked at by anyone who knows what they are pictures of. I’m sure I wouldn’t know myself in a lot of cases.
Most of my pictures are digital. It’s much easier to “flip” through 100, or even 1,000 digital images in one sitting.
I do, however, end up with pictures I don’t remember taking, or pictures taken of me that I don’t remember being taken.
I’m not much of a shutterbug, but I do enjoy the value of a well photographed subject. I just don’t feel the need to commemorate every last event in my life with a photo or ten, and thus I don’t have too many photos from my childhood or my college years. Our wedding may be the only time when my fiance and I have tons of pictures to commemorate a life changing event; neither of us are really fond of posing for the camera.
I’ve got a bunch in albums and a bunch on disc. I try to make it a point to not look at them for long periods because reminiscing is more fun if I haven’t seen them for a while.
Yes. I’ve always just tossed the photos of previous holidays in a drawer when I got home and rarely looked at them again. In fact I no longer take a camera with me when I travel now because I know that I’m not going to look at the photos again - so why waste my time taking them in the first place?
I purposefully don’t look at pictures of our long-deceased dogs, because every time I do, I’ll have vivid dreams that they’re still alive. This is painful, because when I wake up I have to realize anew that they’re gone.
Huh, I just realized I only own three photos. :dubious: I never take photos. It seems to me people spend more time worrying about getting the perfect picture than enjoying the experience they’re trying so desperately to document…
My sister does that. She poses the cake at every birthday party. We have to have a closeup of the cake! Even though it’s generic from the Safeway supermarket. Then we need a shot of someone blowing out the candles. If the picture is not right we have to do it over. I.e., the picture is more important than the event to her.
I take tons of pictures, but I’ll always at least glance at them once, when I’m trying to weed out the crappy ones and selecting the ones I want to post. The good ones I put in my screen saver, so I see those plenty, but the ones that didn’t make the cut are likely never opened again.
Besides having about 50 albums of various sizes, I’ve got boxes and boxes (and boxes and boxes) of photos/slides going back to 1970, when I took a photography class in highschool. I’ve culled out a whole lot, but there are a whole lot left over. I didn’t get a digital camera until 2006, so I’m just getting started on my photo-CD collection. Nowadays, I don’t even get prints from my 35mm film, I just have them burned directly to CD’s.
I love going back and looking at what was happening at different times of my life, so I expect that my image collection will continue to grow.
I’ll take photos as art, but not to record moments. Pictures of people rarely look like the person to me, so I don’t like them and don’t have any.
It is for this reason that I don’t take snapshots. I would never look at them.
I have a lot of pictures of my children when they were little but once they got older and started acting too goofy or sullen in pictures I stopped taking many.
When I look at the albums now I always cry because it just reminds me how much time has passed and how much I enjoyed those days. So, no, I don’t look at them much.
I rarely look at them. My parents took plenty of pics when I was a kid, and my wife likes to take them. We have 7 or eight photo albums which have been sitting in a box since we moved two years ago and a few shoe boxes of pictures.
I never look at old photo albums because I lack sentimentality. The only photos I look at again are the digital ones on my computer which are shots of beautiful places we’ve visited or pictures of the dogs when they were puppies because puppy pictures always make me smile.
I am quite the shutter bug, especially on vacations. Thank god for digital cameras, that’s all I can say.
I look through them from time to time; they can sometimes be useful, as for example a lot of my vacation snaps have ended up on Wikipedia. (example example example) Often I’ll intentionally take pictures for Wikipedia - I’m trying to work my way through the NDP caucus at the different party events I end up at.
Also, after I got a bunch of photos when my grandfather died last month, I actually did the unthinkable - I sat down and put them all in an album, as well as scanning them as a backup. I want to put together an album of my adult life, so I think I’ll end up printing out some of the photos on my hard drive.
I take approximately 10K digital shots a year. I used to take 50-100 rolls of film a year. I hike/ski/travel and shoot constantly. Of the 10K a year I probably keep 1000 or so.