In our generation, prices of digital cameras are continuing to drop, and this means more people are able to afford digital cameras. Applications such as Flickr, Facebook, and the likes have made it even easier for us to share photos with everyone connected to the Internet.
It’s great that people are able to share their experiences through pictures more easily now than ever before. It also doesn’t cost a lot upfront to start capturing images of our life; however, I’ve learned that just shooting away without thinking about what is my purpose has created a lot of digital junk images. This has taken up enormous amount of time and space to sort and store.
From my Asia trip I’ve witness tourists, including myself, shooting away at everything and anything. I try to apply discipline if not in the front-end definitely in the back-end during photos filtering, but again, this has cost me a lot of time. I also tell myself that just because it’s easy for me to shoot it, it doesn’t mean it’s easy for viewers to view it–viewers exhaustion! Through my years with Benson he has taught me to be a minimalist–throw away the stuff I don’t need and don’t buy stuff that will become junk. I will continue to apply this philosophy to my shooting by asking myself “What message am I trying to convey by taking this photo, and do I really need another photo of this?”
What are your thoughts on this?
With this said here are some photos to summarize our 2 weeks trip!
Thailand
Malaysia
)? i know for myself, i don’t usually take that many pictures, but i used to be a lot more cautious when shooting film (cause you don’t want to waste a picture!) i think the same should be applied to digital. be thoughtful and get the very best.
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