【ILoveBlog7】 day16unlimited
November 19, 2010
Virtually Unlimited
One of the blessings of digital photography is the ability to take a virtually unlimited amount of photos in one go. If I shoot at medium resolution and normal quality with a 8gb card, I can get at LEAST 3600 photos with my d90. It will run out of batteries FAR before it runs out of space.
This is nothing like film, where you are limited to something like 24 exposures per roll. You pay much more for it, and it’s much more difficult to deal with afterward. At least you can make prints of digital images on photographic paper.
So what has this done for photography? Well.. we are certainly capturing many more moments. Many of the moments that we capture could’ve been lost (image-wise) if we were restricted to film. It is also much more forgiving. When you take a poor image, there is much less of a feeling of loss or regret. No wasted film, just a few seconds of battery life as you delete it.
But I feel like I start to lose touch with the idea that I’m using the camera to capture an image that I have imagined or envisioned. If I just take a thousand photos and sort through them afterward, it’s perfectly fine to mindlessly press the shutter release.
I think I’ll always be reaching for that silly state of enlightenment – where I see the photo before I take it. Digital has really helped me understand photography concepts… but I believe that the more I try to limit myself, the more I’ll learn.
