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Isaac

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A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« on: September 15, 2015, 01:43:09 pm »

Camera Restricta : If the camera decides that too many photos have been taken at your location, it retracts the shutter and blocks the viewfinder. You can't take any more pictures here.

http://philippschmitt.com/projects/camera-restricta
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2015, 01:45:43 pm »

So that's the reason your only photograph is a fence post?
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2015, 01:47:26 pm »

your only photograph

Not even the only photograph of mine posted to LuLa forums.
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2015, 01:52:14 pm »

Wow! I'm impressed. Where are the others?
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2015, 01:56:55 pm »

Wow! I'm impressed. Where are the others?

In plain sight.

Where are your insights about Camera Restricta ?
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2015, 02:12:07 pm »

...Where are your insights about Camera Restricta ?

Pssst! Do not let the PC nuts hear about it. Next thing you know, they'd quickly go past landmarks and over-photographed sights to... people. If you are photographing a group, it must match the demographics of the locality by race, gender, etc., or the shutter would say "nein, verboten!" If you are photographing a single person, you could, as long as you'd have enough of other demographics present on your memory card prior to that. If not, it will let you keep that shot for the next hour or so, while you are frantically running around trying to add PC diversity to your shots.

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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2015, 04:12:28 pm »

Pssst! Do not let the PC nuts hear about it. Next thing you know, they'd quickly go past landmarks and over-photographed sights to... people. If you are photographing a group, it must match the demographics of the locality by race, gender, etc., or the shutter would say "nein, verboten!" If you are photographing a single person, you could, as long as you'd have enough of other demographics present on your memory card prior to that. If not, it will let you keep that shot for the next hour or so, while you are frantically running around trying to add PC diversity to your shots.



I like that idea, Slobodan; it would keep me safe from doing the wrong thing even, as usual, if in the best of possible taste.

;-)

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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2015, 04:28:30 pm »

And a model customized for your prejudices too.

But I never know what mine are meant to be 'til I've dropped in on Lula.
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2015, 04:36:58 pm »

And a model customized for your prejudices too.

Here we go again... I post a general observation and immediately get a personal attack in response!

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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2015, 05:30:41 pm »

Here we go again... I post a general observation and immediately get a personal attack in response!

Don't you have prejudices?
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2015, 05:33:54 pm »

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"The project is not only a piece about censorship in a policital sense, but also questions our photographic practice. With digital photography displacing film, taking pictures has essentially become free, resulting in an infinite stream of imagery.

Camera Restricta introduces new limitations to prevent an overflow of digital imagery. As a byproduct, these limitations also bring about new sensations like the thrill of being the first or last person to photograph a certain place."

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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2015, 05:48:16 pm »

Some years ago I read a very serious editorial in a photography magazine that proposed that there be a moratorium on photography of iconic locations.  It opined that there had already been enough images made of those places and there couldn't possibly be any further need for them.  As a compromise position it suggested that there be some mechanism to select and license professional nature photographers to create a body of work of these iconic places and after that was completed there would be no more photography allowed.  This was somehow supposed to protect these sites from some imaginary, perceived threat from over exposure to photography. If it was in The Onion, I might have begrudgingly acknowledged some humor in it, but it was perfectly serious. There appears to be no limit on the desire of some to limit the liberty of others.  For the most benevolent reasons, of course. >:(

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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2015, 06:00:56 pm »

Well of course, David. If you photograph those places too much you wear them down and they disappear. I'm surprised the EPA didn't get into the act and get the president to dictate a law.
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2015, 06:21:09 pm »

Camera Restricta...
Not sure if it does some sense.
I personally consider the camera as a tool, not a partner, which means that I give commands and it executes (instead of arguing about what to photograph).

But it probably make sense for those more sensitive to the originality of their shots.

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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #14 on: September 16, 2015, 12:03:27 am »

My metanarrative can kick the crap our of your metanarrative.  Nanna, nanna, nanana....

 ;D

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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2015, 02:33:50 am »

Whoever came up with this idea should be publicly whipped

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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2015, 03:36:18 am »

Whoever came up with this idea should be publicly whipped


Are you advocating voyeurism?

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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2015, 04:20:31 am »


Are you advocating voyeurism?

Rob C

When you really get down to it isn't that what 90% of the web is all about anyway?
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2015, 06:04:52 am »

Wouldn't it be simpler to demolish the over-photographed landmarks?
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Re: A disobedient tool for taking unique photographs
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2015, 06:25:09 am »

Wouldn't it be simpler to demolish the over-photographed landmarks?

Isis are working on that already.
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