Fan’s of the hit NBC television show The Office undoubtably know of Dwight Schrute’s shrewd demeanor. I love the show and have always found his character quite compelling.
I happened upon his blog (yes it’s a television character written blog) and found an article posted yesterday about digital photography Careless Power For The Masses. It’s rather funny.
Like any good satire, there are truths behind the curtain.
Traditional film cameras at least have a built-in limit. You can only take photos as long as you have film. When the film is used up, you’re out of luck. On top of that, film is fairly expensive, as is photo development. These costs made liberal camera use cost-prohibitive. Not the case with digital cameras.
I couldn’t agree more. I, myself a digital photographer, have reverted back to using film in an effort to hone my craft (and my compositional eye) by limiting the powers of digital photography.
The biggest problem that I see with digital cameras is that they cause people to place so much less significance on a single image.
I don’t know if that’s necessarily true, but I can see where he’s coming from. Sometimes, as photographers (this includes everyone from pros to hobbyists) we can let that shutter trigger really fly. I think it is time to slow things down and take it all in.
In this day and age we are bombarded by too much… well, everything. From advertising to news, we receive way to much information on a daily (some of us even more so) basis.
It’s time to shut out some of the noise!
