Unlike a few decades ago, people now have cameras at their disposal all the time. The amount of people who take selfies, capturing a moment in their lives, I think is truly remarkable. I don't take selfies for a few reasons, which are:
-I don't think my life is particularly interesting
-I am not talented at composing a photo like that... I'm that clumsy
but I see there is nothing wrong with taking photos of yourself. That's fine, it's documenting your life and I respect that.
However, there is one thing that I don't like people doing with their 'at-the-ready' camera, which is taking a photo of someone when they aren't aware of it. I am so against that, and it happens so often now because of snapchat and instagram etc. Hopefully I don't do it too often, but I'm going to have just a little rant about this issue:
I am not opposed of having my photo taken, but...BUT I want to be aware that I'm having my photo taken. I don't like being taken unawares; I'm just minding my own business, talking or hanging out with friends and all of a sudden...
one of my friends decides to take a photo of me. What is the point of it? If I wanted my picture taken, I would ask... but now isn't the time. For example (and the trigger for this post), once I was in a situation where my guards were down completely and if I had known that one of my friends were taking photos of me and my other friend who was there, I would have actually grabbed their phone from them and thrown it across the room- that may sound really extreme, but I'm sorry... did I look like I was in a position where I wanted to have my photo taken? NO. Did it look like I wanted to have that moment of my life of complete vulnerability to be captured on film? NO. Are you training to be a paparazzi? NO. I didn't know they were taking photos of us until a week later when that person showed me and I was mortified. Mortified! And then they used the defence: "I thought you knew I was taking photos of you." NO!!!!! As I said, if I had known, their phone would not be in the condition it is in today.
Okay, my rant is done. Sorry about that negativity, but I just think that people should really ask permission when taking a photo, because really, sometimes now isn't the time for taking photos for the sake of it.
-I don't think my life is particularly interesting
-I am not talented at composing a photo like that... I'm that clumsy
but I see there is nothing wrong with taking photos of yourself. That's fine, it's documenting your life and I respect that.
However, there is one thing that I don't like people doing with their 'at-the-ready' camera, which is taking a photo of someone when they aren't aware of it. I am so against that, and it happens so often now because of snapchat and instagram etc. Hopefully I don't do it too often, but I'm going to have just a little rant about this issue:
I am not opposed of having my photo taken, but...BUT I want to be aware that I'm having my photo taken. I don't like being taken unawares; I'm just minding my own business, talking or hanging out with friends and all of a sudden...
one of my friends decides to take a photo of me. What is the point of it? If I wanted my picture taken, I would ask... but now isn't the time. For example (and the trigger for this post), once I was in a situation where my guards were down completely and if I had known that one of my friends were taking photos of me and my other friend who was there, I would have actually grabbed their phone from them and thrown it across the room- that may sound really extreme, but I'm sorry... did I look like I was in a position where I wanted to have my photo taken? NO. Did it look like I wanted to have that moment of my life of complete vulnerability to be captured on film? NO. Are you training to be a paparazzi? NO. I didn't know they were taking photos of us until a week later when that person showed me and I was mortified. Mortified! And then they used the defence: "I thought you knew I was taking photos of you." NO!!!!! As I said, if I had known, their phone would not be in the condition it is in today.
Okay, my rant is done. Sorry about that negativity, but I just think that people should really ask permission when taking a photo, because really, sometimes now isn't the time for taking photos for the sake of it.
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