pictures

i was on the phone with someone last night and he had the following observations:

1.  this album i posted had over 200 pics

2.  for a series of shots, if i'm not in the pic, he is not sure whether the pics are really different.  but if i'm in the pic, he right away knows that they are different.

re #1, with me, that's nothing unusual.  i've been our family's photographer since second year high school (a long, loooooong time ago).  still film that time yet i was using up so many rolls.  now it's digital, no film expense.  all the more that i just click and click and click.  even if i'm talking to someone or doing something, i just go on clicking.  i multi-task  ; )

then i check the pics.  i delete the ones where you have people with eyes half-closed.  i dunno, i have a thing about eyes half-shut.  it makes me cringe calling to mind possession.  i also delete pics where people's heads are out of frame, as in, they're only shown up to the neck.  i think of beheading.  ugh!  so many hang-ups, what is wrong with me???  anyway, i also delete those where people's mouths are going this way and that.  for multiple shots, people often go on talking and the mouths look either funny or awkward when the pics come out.

i also delete 'ugly' shots.  just last week i was showing my officemate a pic i was deleting with a heavy heart.  i was sooo cute there!!!  (hahaha, believe in yourself)  but then there's someone in the pic who was caught in a rather unflattering angle.  my officemate was telling me to just crop the pic instead of deleting.  i said with me it's all or nothing.  i don't want to leave a trace of an ugly shot  : }

the remaining pics i upload.  all of them, hahaha.  i don't really expect people to look at every single one.  i'm thinking they'd go over the thumbnails and just click those they find interesting.  but then, it seems there really are those who look at everything  : }

an aunt e-mailed me before that her internet connection was slow so she's still at the 200-somethingth pic.  ooops...

in his speech at our christmas party a couple of years ago, a batchmate said he looks forward to the pictures he receives, especially if they're from me, and he really looks at them one by one!  uh-oh.  that would consume a lot of time  : }

oh, well...  i was chiding my ex before, he goes out of the country and comes back with only three shots.  i just go to the other room and i take a hundred, hahaha.

re #2, i have a camera you could set for one to ten shots.  there are those who find ten too much so they just want me to set it to five or three.  whatever the setting, if it's multiple shots, then i move with every click.  front, back, left side, right side.  i'd even do top and bottom if i could, hahaha.  but then oftentimes,  my companions in the frame don't move at all.  as in from shots one to three, sometimes, even from shots one to ten, they barely twitch, hehe.  if i'm not in the pic, you would have a hard time distinguishing that it's a different shot.  but, yup, if i'm there, you would know for sure  ->  mega-pose, mega-project, hahaha.  you should try it sometime.  you might find it silly, but it's fun... : )