Throughout the past six years of my life, I had always kept an interest in photography and capturing memories through the eye of a camera lens. My interests began with my first iPhone and then continued on with my Canon Rebel T1i. Throughout these years, I would take pictures of a variety of different things – people, nature, and landscapes. Modern photography has allowed for us, as humans, to become more involved in our surroundings and delve into art, color, and detail, all while enhancing our memory and appreciativeness of the world around us instead of hindering it; however, we must learn to not live through the eye of a camera lens. In the passage, The Blandishments of Color, written by Chet Raymo, he uses photography as an example to
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For this vacation, I had invested in my first camera, a Samsung WB350F. It was your typical point-and-shoot camera, but with perks. It had a 21x optical zoom, allowing for me to zoom in on objects that are a decent distance away, customizable settings, and wireless capabilities so that you could connect your camera to your laptop, Facebook, or Twitter. On this vacation, I took approximately 133 pictures, which seems like a lot, however, I regret not taking more. I feel that there are so many events or memories that I have lost because I did not take as many pictures as I expected, including the small ones, such as sitting down on the beach with my grandma, mom, and brother. In perspective to some other people who go on exotic vacations, they fully focus themselves through their smartphone cameras instead of through their human eyes and lose the experience of actually being alive in the place that they are vacationing. That is why a right medium needs to be found between taking too many pictures and not taking enough. In this case, it is hard not to agree with Raymo’s argument that we have lost our appreciativeness for the small details since some people absorb themselves in color photographs and take them for granted as a way to remember our experiences. Albeit, that is just a single loophole to this argument, and the odds are unlikely that a photographer with
For this vacation, I had invested in my first camera, a Samsung WB350F. It was your typical point-and-shoot camera, but with perks. It had a 21x optical zoom, allowing for me to zoom in on objects that are a decent distance away, customizable settings, and wireless capabilities so that you could connect your camera to your laptop, Facebook, or Twitter. On this vacation, I took approximately 133 pictures, which seems like a lot, however, I regret not taking more. I feel that there are so many events or memories that I have lost because I did not take as many pictures as I expected, including the small ones, such as sitting down on the beach with my grandma, mom, and brother. In perspective to some other people who go on exotic vacations, they fully focus themselves through their smartphone cameras instead of through their human eyes and lose the experience of actually being alive in the place that they are vacationing. That is why a right medium needs to be found between taking too many pictures and not taking enough. In this case, it is hard not to agree with Raymo’s argument that we have lost our appreciativeness for the small details since some people absorb themselves in color photographs and take them for granted as a way to remember our experiences. Albeit, that is just a single loophole to this argument, and the odds are unlikely that a photographer with