spin-off: your camera quirks
Junebug's "do people stare" thread got me thinking about my biggest pet peeve/photographing quirk.
I do not let anyone see the photos until at the very least I have them downloaded, and preferably not until I have them edited. I do not like to show people the photos on my camera, simply because things look so different on that little screen then they do once you get them on the computer.
That said, my biggest pet peeve is when an adult takes a photo of a child, and the child immediately wants to see it on the screen. Makes me want to scream. I have no idea why this bugs me so much, but maybe because my own philosophy is to capture people doing what they do naturally, not posing.
Even bigger pet peeve... my sister lets my niece run around with her camera and take pictures. She's been doing this since she was 3 or 4 (she's now 7). I just want to grab that camera and tell her it's not a toy, but since she's not my child, I don't. I've only in the last six months started letting my children touch my camera, and then only under my supervision... and I don't even have a DSLR, just a P&S I love very much.
Maybe I'm a little too serious about photography...
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