Photography
As you may have noticed from a few of the shots on the blog, I've enjoyed playing around with the digital camera, safe in the knowledge that I can delete if the shots are rubbish, which they frequently are. Michelle tells me that my camera has become like my mobile phone was in the UK - always by my side! So I've certainly taken more than my fair share of photos, and so has Michelle (who is much more of an expert as she's done courses and everything!). But we're constantly amazed by the behaviour of otherwise sane looking individuals who think they are some kind of professional photographer....there seem to be a few groups...
1. The undercover agent - this type of photographer is a little embarrased to be taking pictures and keeps his camera hidden as much as possible, wipping it out to take a quick snap like a flasher in a kids playground, and putting it away just as quickly.
2. The attention seeker - this person (male without exception in my experience) has a really big camera ready to do paparazzi shots from miles away. They also carry a large tripod at all times, even when completely unecessary. They are very proud of their camera and often announce "don't mind me" as they clobber people around the head with a trailing leg of their tripod.
3. The abstract photographer - often seen taking pictures looking in the other direction as the rest of the group. Or, for example, taking pictures of the plant life when at the glaciers, as we saw.
4. The pro - not ostentatious in anyway but clearly serious about their photography. Any sign of a smile while using the camera is blasphemy as photography is a serious business. Spraggy would fall into this camp for example...
5. They gymnast - they want to get the best picture possible, even if it means contorting their bodies into any position or even standing on their head to do so. We've seen people run and slide into position on their backs to look up and take a photo!
6. The partner's worst nightmare - ok, so I could be accused of this. This type of photographer wants to get their partner in the foreground in front of every site there is. Of course , when the photos are seen there is no concealing the look of "**** off" in the eyes of the partner, as Spraggy pointed out to me in some of the photos of Michelle on this blog. I would like to point out that there have been people far worse than me at this while we've been away!
7. The model's assistant - this is the photographer who doesn't say a word or have thoughts of their own - they simply do as they are told, by the person they are photographing. At the botanical gardens in Bali we saw a woman nearly fall in to the lake she was so busy issuing instructions and pulling her top down and her skirt up to get that shot for her modelling file (we assumed!)
8. The loud mouth - the (generally female) photographer who shouts "take one from there" and "come here - that's the perfect back drop" etc very loudly so that the people she is with are very embarrassed.
9. The sex substitute - these photographers say things like "oh yes" and "that's it" with increasing enthusiasm as their "models" pose for them, taking several shots of the same scene, so that anyone who can't see what's going on but can hear thinks they've stumbled across the filming of a porn movie.
1. The undercover agent - this type of photographer is a little embarrased to be taking pictures and keeps his camera hidden as much as possible, wipping it out to take a quick snap like a flasher in a kids playground, and putting it away just as quickly.
2. The attention seeker - this person (male without exception in my experience) has a really big camera ready to do paparazzi shots from miles away. They also carry a large tripod at all times, even when completely unecessary. They are very proud of their camera and often announce "don't mind me" as they clobber people around the head with a trailing leg of their tripod.
3. The abstract photographer - often seen taking pictures looking in the other direction as the rest of the group. Or, for example, taking pictures of the plant life when at the glaciers, as we saw.
4. The pro - not ostentatious in anyway but clearly serious about their photography. Any sign of a smile while using the camera is blasphemy as photography is a serious business. Spraggy would fall into this camp for example...
5. They gymnast - they want to get the best picture possible, even if it means contorting their bodies into any position or even standing on their head to do so. We've seen people run and slide into position on their backs to look up and take a photo!
6. The partner's worst nightmare - ok, so I could be accused of this. This type of photographer wants to get their partner in the foreground in front of every site there is. Of course , when the photos are seen there is no concealing the look of "**** off" in the eyes of the partner, as Spraggy pointed out to me in some of the photos of Michelle on this blog. I would like to point out that there have been people far worse than me at this while we've been away!
7. The model's assistant - this is the photographer who doesn't say a word or have thoughts of their own - they simply do as they are told, by the person they are photographing. At the botanical gardens in Bali we saw a woman nearly fall in to the lake she was so busy issuing instructions and pulling her top down and her skirt up to get that shot for her modelling file (we assumed!)
8. The loud mouth - the (generally female) photographer who shouts "take one from there" and "come here - that's the perfect back drop" etc very loudly so that the people she is with are very embarrassed.
9. The sex substitute - these photographers say things like "oh yes" and "that's it" with increasing enthusiasm as their "models" pose for them, taking several shots of the same scene, so that anyone who can't see what's going on but can hear thinks they've stumbled across the filming of a porn movie.
posted by Ed at 5:22 am
1 Comments:
I think you've omitted (at least) one stereotype: the person who, when you've spent a few seconds getting in the right place to take a nice shot, thinks they'd like to take the same shot and, without looking behind them, steps right in front of you just as you press the shutter, so that you get a glorious picture of the back of their head.
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