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By: Roland Tanglao

Roland Tanglao — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I think it’s one of those things that’s hard to relate to until you have actually tried it or have you tried the modern cameraphone/unlimited data plan/ShoZu trio?

i think it’s crude today but the future just like you select shutter or aperture or whatever today, in the future you will have a button on the camera to select private or public on a person photo basis and your photo will be automagically transferred to your public or private area (after a small delay to give you a chance to change your mind). That area could be flickr or it could be somewhere else.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I guess it’s one of those things you get once you’ve tried it. Or maybe I’m being a luddite. It just seems like taking any chance for reflection out of the process changes the nature of the act. With film, you had to choose your shots carefully, because they were a limited resource (limited supply of available film). With digital, that is basically gone, but you still have essentially the same workflow. With internet enabled cameras, the whole workflow changes, in that it is no longer a hunting trip (setting up shots, selecting angles, taking shots, filtering results, processing, then publishing). It becomes more of a shoot-publish-respond workflow. Maybe that will be a good thing in the long run, making photography more of a conversation than a presentation?

By: chris garrett

chris garrett — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

With my DSLR pics I take hundreds but only upload a few and that is after raw conversion, tweaking contrast, cropping, etc. I can see me doing the thing Roland describes with my camera phone pics though which are more “capturing the moment” style.

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Chris – I agree. Even the size of the camera and sound of the shutter cause me to be a bit more deliberate. It’s slightly more intrusive to be lugging around a big ‘ol DSLR as opposed to a pocketable silent Point And Shoot. Not better or worse, just a different experience.

By: roland tanglao

roland tanglao — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

i too find that the more pictures i take, the more i throw out AND also the higher the quaity of all of them

but if it’s too hard to upload then i don’t feel like it

which is why cameraphone/ShoZu/unlimited dataplane “triumverate” works for me better than my digital SLR (which I still love BTW)

the SLR’s photos are much better but the chain of pain really sucks compared to ShoZu

somebody please build WiFi and ShoZu-like technology into digital SLRs please!

By: dnorman

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

roland – I’m not sure I agree with you about the “chain of pain” – I look forward to downloading them from the camera. It’s like waiting for film to be developed back in the day – you have an idea of how it’s going to turn out, but look forward to the surprises. I think having to sit with photos in-camera for awhile helps, too, especially by allowing deletion before downloading. If every photo I took wound up on Flickr, it’d be pretty messy

By: chris garrett

chris garrett — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I think using a DSLR (or SLR) makes you in some ways a more intentional photographer, you put more thought into it, which perhaps helps in some way the signal to noise ratio. Compact cameras are more often used for snapshots which can be brilliant, especially more sentimental, but not necessarily better photographs?

By: Roland Tanglao

Roland Tanglao — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

@darcy: “shoot-publish-respond workflow” rather than “hunting”
I think both are valid but the former was not possible before and it definitely opens up the process and conversation and we’ll see more of it!