Basketball Photo Conundrum

My new phone ensures that I always have a camera with me, but it doesn't take very good pictures, does it?  I wonder if there's something wonky with mine.  People usually rave about the quality of their iPhone 4s photos.  I have not been impressed.

I'll have to start bringing my big camera out and about with me more often.  I guess it's better to have bad photos of Charlie's Tae Kwon Do graduation and Tommy's dance class instead of no photos, but it would have been better to have have GOOD photos.  I'd hate for 2012 to be known in my family as the year of mediocre pictures.  They already think of late 2009 as the year of the missing pictures since I spilled tea on my newish laptop then and lost 6-months worth of unbacked-up photos.  It's a good thing small versions of all of them were saved on the blog!

However, it seems like sometimes I go to the trouble of bringing the big camera and it still doesn't do me much good.  Take Tommy's basketball games, for example.  I've been meaning to post something about basketball for a while now.  He's really learning a lot in the practices and is enjoying the games.  I took some videos of one game with my phone, but they're kind of "had to be there."  I'm really good at knowing what I should take pictures of.  I'm not so good at seeing the world through the lens of potential video yet.

 

TommyBBall01 from Sally Epp on Vimeo.

 

TommyBBall02 from Sally Epp on Vimeo.

 Then I brought my big camera with me to a different game, and realized I have no skill whatsoever in taking sporting event action shots.  

So then I tried taking pictures at a THIRD game with just my phone.  They're definitely not as good as the ones taken with my big camera (as you can see below.)  It's dead simple to snap a photo with my phone and then do a simple blog post straight from my phone, but then the photo isn't very good.  It becomes a lot more complicated if I want to transfer the phone pictures to my computer, edit them in any way, and then write a longer, more organized blog post like this one.  And in order to get the good pictures with my big camera, I have to plan ahead. 

Ah, technology.  I suppose it's impressive that I get ANYTHING posted, now that I have so many options.  At least we've managed to make it to most of Tommy's basketball practices and games...as well as Tommy's two dance classes, Charlie's Tae Kwon Do practices three times a week and Charlie's swimming practices.  I really do have the calendar on  my new phone to thank for that.  

Comments

[Sylvia]

Well, as long as Tommy and/or Charlies are in the pictures, I love them!