We All love a bit of retro, the BBC’s Ashes to Ashes has ably demonstrated this with most of us wincing at Gene Hunt, the 80’s snake-skin booted macho detective abusing all and sundry and firing up the Quattro to screech to his work. We live in A.D. 2010.. and technology has progressed beyond all recognition in 25+ years… apart from the last bastion of 80’s retro-tech-culture, the “disposable” camera.
Today’s bride and groom will buy a number of disposables to try and capture photos from their wedding when their official photographer has gone home. More often than not disposables end up languishing in a dusty place, un-processed, or if they are developed the results frequently disappoint. As shoddy as some of the 80’s fashion styles, disposables are just as awful today as they were then. So why are they still with us?
Until the advent of shoebox360, it was just too hard to easily get access to the hundreds or thousands of high quality digital-photos taken at your wedding on your guest’s digital cameras. Many of these photos will be beautifully incidental, of family and friends enjoying your wedding and taken from a perspective that your official wedding photographer would never dream of snapping.
When all of the photos are combined together in a single shoebox360 gallery you will get a totally different perspective of what was happening during your special day. Lasting memories beyond the soft-tones, sepia and posed shots taken by the professional.
shoebox360 is a great way for your guests to relive the memories or for you to share with those that couldn’t be there, safely and securely, anywhere in the world at just the click of a mouse button.
More 2010 compare the meerkats “Simples” than 1985 Harry Enfield’s “Loadsa Money”.
So park up the smoky old Quattro and jump into your eco-warrior hybrid powered car.. the age of powerful all inclusive green wedding photography has finally arrived!
Should disposable cameras be banned?
Back in the good old days of film photography and weddings with brides that looked like marshmallows on acid, disposable cameras were a must have. Anyone that took a camera to your wedding would take a few random photos which would be printed at bonus print and if you were lucky you may have got one of the mini pictures that came with the 6″x4″ master print, which ultimately ended up in Auntie Gwen’s album.
You didn’t see any of the pictures, so the invention of the disposable camera was a god send to brides who just wanted to see the day from every angle (bar from down the usher’s trousers).
Fast forward to 2010, the disposable camera is still around. How and why? Legacy, one would suspect, though maybe it is still a necessity… Does the addition of multiple digital cameras at a wedding mean that the modern day bride and groom see any more of their pictures? How many of your pictures have you shared? Are they confined in the main to your computer with a smattering on occasion appearing on Facebook or another social networking sites? It’s OK, I think we are all guilty.
So, isn’t it about time we set the high quality digital images free and let them bring happiness to those who have just got hitched? It would make for a greener world and a reduced photography budget. Maybe then we COULD say goodbye to the disposable camera and it could take its place with the Sinclair C5 and the Betamax VHS in the 80’s museum.