Posted on 06/10/2014 1:38:38 AM PDT by markomalley
Msgr Pope ping.
Our parish had a “set” designed where the bishop posed with every child and again with their family after the ceremony. Years later, these are much better than anything you could have gotten in the church.
Well Msgr. Pope, you forget that most cell phones have the ability to take pictures or videos in a very quiet and reverent manner.
I drives me crazy when people are waving their cell phones and IPads around at mass. The solution is to do an immediately available digital video of the ceremony, and even, in the case of Confirmation, an individual shot of each child’s Confirmation that would then be available to the parents, either to print or to download.
Even when the phone or camera is on silent mode, it’s still annoying to have somebody holding their hand up in front of you, filming away like mad.
And his other point is correct: People spend so much time taking pictures or videos of things that they miss the actual event and its emotional impact.
Ping!
“People spend so much time taking pictures or videos of things that they miss the actual event and its emotional impact.”
They are just very excited. It actually shows how much they value that moment, and want to go back to it again and again. Maybe months from now they’ll be sitting in a waiting room flipping through pics on their phone, and enjoy it again.
I know its gonna sound crazy, but not everyone experiences, or even wants to experience the event the way you would.
Good thoughts.
Go out to dinner these days and watch young people. When their food arrives, they pause to take a picture for Instagram.
We enjoy how it looks and smells and pause to give thanks.
If I don't hear it, I'm okay. For I can always close my eyes and folks think I'm praying, but talking? Way more annoying.
This is an excellent point. How is it possible to give God the worship that is due Him and appreciate the sacredness of what is taking place while busily taking pictures? It's a poor trade to substitute the ephemeral for the sacred.
I’m with the Monsignor here. I survived quite well with the emphasis on the Sacraments I received and not on the photos of the moment.
God bless him.
The phones, yes. Their owners, not always so much.
I used to own a business that specialized in shooting collegiate sports. I focused mostly on DII and DIII schools, so the sidelines were pretty much open.
When I started using the internet for parent’s sales I could count on 35% of my income from the web. By the time I closed up my internet shop 13 years later, the sidelines parents with their phones and crappy cameras had cut that to less than 5%. People are just conditioned that crappy pictures for free are better than great photos for a price are not.
Those “guys with cameras” essentially put me out of business, and I can assure you that they missed most of the games their kids played in. Its too bad. It was a great gig when it was great.
Another perspective. Thanks.
What you described has happened in many fields. I’ve always thought cinema was impervious to an amateur coup, given the money and crew required to create it. Yet recently I followed a link to an iPhone gadget that was a mini dolly track/steadycam.
Uh oh...
I love good photography. The one thing that could draw me back to it is medium/large format film...an area far from the camera phone crowds, lol. Hope to explore that some day.
Could it be because of the desire for the memories of that special day.
High resolution digital has come of age. And if I still had to mess with those chemicals in the darkroom, I wouldn't be taking pictures.
Because if they don't photograph it, nobody will.
Its sad because, much like a lot of things, the true professional is being pushed out of the business.
This is true in my field, stock stuff, fine art photos, and probably most of all weddings.
I had tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. And between the equipment and my 30 years of experience you could SEE the difference. I had the light, the angle, and the knowledge of the sport to make the shot better.
But it is a value proposition. And my prices were relatively cheap compared to many others.
My images are going to be posted on walls for generations. The snapshot, crappy digital photos have already been forgotten.
Go figure.
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