I have no problems with most people who use their smartphones/tablets to take pictures. I only have a problem with a small subset:
These people’s cell phone is in a state that gives no choice in troubleshooting. For instance, for example the phone refusing to turn on.
After informing them of the only steps they can do, they will often ask ‘What about my photos?’ I even had one person say that they had several years of pictures, on the phone, including their now dead son.
At this point I get to tell them, the photos are gone and that there is no way of retrieving the photos, since they had never backed up the phone or used one of the other methods of saving the pictures.
I do. Don’t take pictures with a damn TABLET! Especially a full-size iPad! And don’t hold the thing above your head through an entire concert! There are people behind you you selfish prick!
Some of it does, yes. There’s ethical rules around news photography - for example, my publication never photoshops pictures beyond colour balancing and cropping for space.
Even when cropping we have to be careful to make sure we’re not distorting or misrepresenting what is happening in the image. 98% of the time it’s not a problem, since we’re just cutting out things like grass or sky or some random background bystander half in the frame at the edge with a derpy look on their face because they were in mid blink when the shot was taken.
I was on a board about old WB cartoons.Lots of youngun’s.
Several mentioned having photographed simply everything- one estimated, based on number of chips filled, that he had 10,000 images - none of which he even looked at.
With all these idiots pointing cameras (actually, phones) at things repeatedly that they either:
Never looked at the result of turning on a flash 100’ from target and snapping away (it doesn’t work, kids!)
Don’t care about the image - it serves simply as “memory-jogger” or “proof” to others that they really were where they said they were.