Incompetence

[deird_lj]

 I went out on a site visit on Friday arvo. Basically driving along next to railways, and taking photos. Photos of bits of railway track.
And really, bits of railway track start to look extraordinarily similar after a while - especially in photo close-ups. Being an experienced on-site-photo-taker, I know this. So I cleverly devised a method that would guarantee that I could identify all my photos:
Every time I went to a new piece of track, I instantly took a photo that would mark my location - like a street sign, for instance. Or a kilometre marker. Or a sign on the station entrance.
The logic being that I could get back to the office, upload the photos on to my computer, and use the location-marker photos to help me identify where they all were.

Nope. Not happening. I fail at photos.
Unfortunately, I have yet to figure out when my camera has taken a photo, and when it hasn't. So most of my handy identifying photos are missing - as are many of the other ones I wanted. On the other hand, I did manage to take a large selection of shots of the ground, my thumb, random bits of sky, and the inside of the camera case. I am happy to print them out, frame them, and ship them to anyone interested (for a reasonable fee). Any takers?

There is a reason I don't like digital cameras: they're out to get me.

Comments

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You probably know this, but digital cameras record the time of each photo; it'll be somewhere in Properties, possibly labelled with the acronym "EXIF". That might help untangling photos, too — even if the clock isn't set correctly, it'll help you group them.

A lot of cameras have half-press and full-press on the shutter button, which might be what's causing you trouble; only the full-press takes a picture.

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[dreamincolor.livejournal.com]

-pat pat- Technology is very frequently evil.

But on the bright side, the icon you used with this entry made me giggle.