When I was younger, and even then couldn’t afford it, I was still a crazy man when it came to taking pictures. I love to photograph people and things. Over the years, I have done less of the people because most of them, a lot of the time my family, doesn’t appreciate being the focus of my camera. Slowly, because of those reasons, I didn’t take nearly as many pictures. Then all of a sudden, a sea change occurs in the film industry.
You can take a digital picture versus using a film cartridge. Let’s see, you can take a roll of 36 (have to be careful of what you shoot) with the film costing probably $8, and then the developing easily twice that much. All of a sudden you have to put out the money for a digital camera, but you can take a million pictures, edit them as desired, down load them to your computer, use the storage media again, and print only those that you really want to have printed. Voila, a photographer is reborn, and more of a pest than ever. I find myself going crazy taking pictures. Where I might have shot 100 pictures on a cruise, now I might take 10 times that. Of course, you have to have computer space to store all of those useless pictures, but gee whiz, I can still shoot a ton of pictures, and there is no waiting weeks to see if they came out right