I'm a picture addict! How about you?

Mal opening Christmas gifts - My grandson Mal opening his Christmas gifts.
United States
January 12, 2007 3:11pm CST
LOL. I love taking pictures! I didn't used to take very many, because of the cost to develop them. Since I got my digital camera a few years ago, I've become a picture addict!;) I took over 600 pictures over Christmas! I don't get them developed, I just download them to my computer & then save them on a cd. What about you? Have you found that you take more pictures with a digital camera than you did with your old camera? How many did you take at Christmas? Do you get them developed, or save them on a cd?
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@Shar11 (419)
• United States
12 Jan 07
oh I absolutely take a ton more pictures now that I have a digital camera for the same reasons as you.. Its just so easy to pop them on the pc and email them out to friends and family. I also love that with most digital cameras you see your pic instantly so you know if you have to reshoot a shot or not.. I did buy a special printer so I can also print out hard copies of my photos if I want to put them in a frame or album.. Another great thing about the digital images and the fact you can edit them on your computer, taking out red eye, resize them, or cut out that person walking by that you didn't see when you took the picture LOL... I guess I would say I took a good 80-100 pictures over the holidays..
• United States
12 Jan 07
LOL, yea, I know what you mean. My family that has a computer gets lots more pictures than the ones I have to send snail mail to.
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@umavarma1 (926)
• India
12 Jan 07
i am not that much.but love watching snaps taken by others
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• China
13 Jan 07
how beautiful ! ~~~
@ahsan15 (334)
• India
13 Jan 07
even im one ....
• India
13 Jan 07
me tooo
@sunrisekn (1466)
• United States
13 Jan 07
I'm like the freakin paparazzi at my house. lol My son is 9.5 month old and when he here's the camera turn on, he instantly smiles because he knows mommy is getting ready to snaps some pics. This was my sons first Christmas so I took around 100 pictures. I download them onto the computer and back them up on a CD.
@sunrisekn (1466)
• United States
13 Jan 07
I meant when he HEARS the camera....
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• Romania
12 Jan 07
Myself, taking a picture :) - The aparat man, meaning myself, during a photo session.
I'm also a picture addict, a love taking pictures and although i don't personally own a digital camera a get to travel alot and borrow my friends cameras taking pictures. You can see a good amount of them in my profile, they were taken during travels through my country - Romania, a beautiful place to visit.
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• United States
12 Jan 07
What a beautiful country you live in. :) I went & looked at your pictures. I really liked the one of the Black Sea. (I rated it a +).
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@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
12 Jan 07
so do I am taking a photography class to try to get even better at it. I have a cell phone with a camera in it. it is nice to have but I want a camcorder and a digital camera though.
• United States
12 Jan 07
My daughter has a camera in her phone too. LOL, she's always borrowing my camera. She says it takes better pictures than her phone.
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@shywolf (4514)
• United States
13 Jan 07
Oh my gosh yes, I take _way_ more pictures since the invention of digital cameras *laugh* My family is pretty technologically minded and we actually have about three models of digital cameras right now because the old ones keep falling apart in subtle ways that are hard for the manufacturers to completely fix, and because we keep wanting better and better pictures, lol! I can't even imagine how many pictures I took last year, but I'm certain that it was in the hundreds. Maybe more like a thousand *laugh*
@mariam74 (555)
• Egypt
13 Jan 07
Just like me I'm also a picture addict I took 700 picture in my travel to any country but I put them on a CD for not loosing them sometimes I take them and process the good ones to be with me and someother times I put the favorite ones on my laptop and ofcorse I change brightness and contrast for the bad ones in the Adobe photoshop, I like my pictures very much because every one remembers me by a good memmory
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• United States
13 Jan 07
i hate having my picture taken. i find it scary seeing myself! lol. i am my own worst enemy and i find all my flaws and such
@apostrofy (661)
• Romania
13 Jan 07
i also love taking pictures and i thought that by taking a digital camera i would make tons of pictures. well i'd wish it happened that way. it didn't. i had tons of photos before taking the new camera, but now i am just overwhelmed with problems and i don't find any excuse for making photos. i'm just thinking that they will remind me forever of this hard time in my life. so i'm praying everything goes out like i planned to and i will start taking pictures again in few months. hugs
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• United States
13 Jan 07
Pepi the King - One of my photos
Yes I becoming one. I got a digital camera for Christmas and have gone nuts taking pictures of my dogs, my plants, my house...everything and anyone. I also download them to Kodak Easyshare and edit and print them my self. It is not really an expensive hobby when you do everything yourself.
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@imakella (665)
• United States
13 Jan 07
i too take pictures.. i'm nice photographer.
• India
13 Jan 07
i like pics which capture my eyes immed , nature , girls , glamourous ..
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@steveblue (128)
• Indonesia
14 Jan 07
i'm not really love it. because i don't have any digital camera. if i have one, i will do it. maybe more than you.
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@candygurl24 (1880)
• Canada
13 Jan 07
I LOVE taking pics! It is a huge addiction, and I tend to carry my camera everywhere I go. Over Christmas I must've taken close to 200 pics just of kids & family. I tend to take alot of pics of scenery. I live in Newfoundland, so there are alot of photo ops here, especially with the snow down now. Mountains topped with snow and silver branches are a must! As for saving them, I dl them to my comp, then save them on cd's, as well as email them to myself (that way if the cd is ruined somehow, I have a backup). Also, I live away from my family, so I use walmart.ca to print out some pics and send them off to all of my loved ones. And I definitely take way more pics with my digital camera than I ever did before with a normal camera. Digital cams are more expensive, but a great long term investment considering the prices of developing normal film to 0.19 cents a print from digital.
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@dip_cool (411)
• India
13 Jan 07
well yes i love taking pictures too but like you it was not very much possible in my old camera as it would be very costly with all the film rolls,developing and printing charges.but after i got my mobile camer and digital camera theres no stopping me.i try to find a position to take a pic out of everything and also am interested in serious photography in the future.
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• Pakistan
13 Jan 07
i also love taking pictures....sometimes when i sit with friends i strt sneching pics........
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@siluka (303)
• Romania
13 Jan 07
i like to take pictures. in last time i don't take too much pictures but i haven't what to shot. i save them in my computer. usually i take pictures with my phone who make really good pictures but at video still not so good :P
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• India
13 Jan 07
hey me too have the same sad story........though wid a happy ending as urs........ even i love phgotography but never got so much of them developed.u know the printing costs and all.... though since now i have a camera a digital one, of sony made, and a nokia camera high roslution fone too.... so now taking pics and saving them to mah comp. isnt a big deal now...........
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• Romania
13 Jan 07
I always enjoy taking pictures.it is a wonderful art:) keep on making pictures!
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@schmob (151)
• United States
13 Jan 07
I am too! Only a few days ago I took about 350 pictures with my camera in about 1 hour! Lol!
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