Cameras
I used to love photography. I never had the passion for it that true photographers do, but I enjoyed playing with my cameras, learning, trying new and creative things. When I got my DSLR I was so excited. Den and I both agreed that it was an absolute necessity before we had any kids, so I could take some good photos of them.
And to be fair, I do have a lot of good photos of Kate. But I find myself reaching for my phone (droid) to take pictures rather than my very expensive, slightly fancy DSLR. For one thing I always have it with me. When juggling a child, diaper bag, stroller, and goodness knows what else, the last thing I want to do is be packing a big camera bag – not to mention risk getting water or sand or dirt in it. And the other huge thing about my phone is the one-touch upload to facebook. I LOVE that. I can share funny pictures right then instead of waiting until evening, downloading them to the computer, resizing them, and uploading them. Not to mention that when I use the big camera it’s never one or two photos, but rather 20 or 30 I need to wade through, edit, and cull. I can always manage to find 2 seconds to flick through photos on my camera and upload; finding an hour on the computer is much, much more difficult.
Some days I look at my camera sitting on the shelf and sigh in guilt. I ought to be using it more, it certainly does take better pictures. Though not that my droid takes bad pictures – it’s an 8 megapixel camera and the quality of outdoors pictures are really very good. It’s just, well… I feel bad for my big camera.
I totally can relate to this. My iPhone has become my main camera lately and I was starting to feel badly that our kids pics were all blurry or obviously on the fly…it takes an okay pic…but if the child is moving…not so crisp….so I keep the DSLR laying out and I purposefully grab it just to capture great close ups of fat baby fingers and bright blue eyes and play between brother and sister that is always full of movement. i still have my quick iphoto of the moment that I can share on FB….but this way i also have some really crisp great photos of each stage that I can upload every other week and then send out a fun photo bomb email to friends and family….and I always have sooo much fun going back and seeing the pics. every now and again one will just really capture a shot I want to print and frame too…so I upload to Snapfish and a few days later an awesome print shows up in the mail.
See, this is why I love reading your blog. So many times I nod my head and think how much I agree, and then you post THIS! I could have written this myself, right down to the guilt. LOL