Here’s a tip. If you’re in a group, record people reacting to the fireworks, not the fireworks themselves.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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It bugs me more when people (usually family) just randomly start filming me when I'm trying to enjoy a moment. It makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable and totally kills the vibe. Apparently not everyone minds being randomly filmed and posted who knows where...?
I kind of have the opposite problem when I take pictures. I feel really awkward randomly taking pictures of others, so instead of any pictures of my family and loved ones, my photo collection is 99% pictures of either my pets or something I cooked.
I used to believe this. Was very “put your phone down and just experience the moment,” or “there’s 100 other people recording and uploading this, why should I?” As I’ve gotten older and am scrolling 10 years back in my photo library it’s these stupid videos or pictures I didn’t delete that send me back to a moment I’d otherwise forgotten. I make more of an effort now to document stuff even if it’s stupid.
It's worth taking photos of the mundane, the everyday. Your commute to work, your kitchen, the friendly dog you pass every day, the view from your bedroom window. And of course the people you see everyday. These memories actually mean something, they are a part of your life. Much more so than a firework going off or some famous landmark you've seen once, of which there are a million photos all better than yours.
Yeah. OP's fallacy is thinking that people imagine they'd video stuff with the intention of sitting down with it with popcorn like it was a movie. I'm recording it to help me remember the experience of that day.
Telling other people how to enjoy themselves is dickhead behaviour.
Take a few pictures to remember the event, but then put the camera down and enjoy the moment.
This is it. Capture the moment but not at the expense of the moment.
Protip: Take a video of your family watching the fireworks, not only the fireworks.
Or, you know, just enjoy it.
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Saw a tiger recently, less than a metre away from me through a fence. I was the only person to see the tiger rather than see a tiger on a phone screen.
I can look at tigers on a phone at home.
Counterpoint: I have a video of a tiger at the Zoo who got a large piece of ice stuck on his tongue and started flailing wildly, and it rules.
Unfortunately it has my friend in the shot so I can’t share it.
Plus, photos of tigers found on the internet are likely vastly better than the ones you can capture on your phone.
I saw a tiger just now, and I was t
I mean, he's recording them at professional quality...
Meanwhile my firework photo:
(It was hours before so not much to see even with a telescope, but still)
The brain-dead assholes in Raleigh at ABC 11 decided to preempt Jeopardy to show all the dumb asses freezing said asses off to watch the fireworks. I know I'm a grumpy old man, but for fuck's sake, who's gonna watch fireworks for 5 fucking hours? Standing in the fucking cold, no less! Lucky for me I live close enough to Greensboro to catch it on their CBS affiliate at 7:30.
Our Obsession with Taking Photos May Alter How We Remember Things
Taking photos of an event rather than being immersed in it has been shown to lead to poorer recall of the actual event—we get distracted in the process.
Get yourselves married man its the best. Your wife takes all the photos and documents everything obsessively. I can enjoy the moment safe in the knowledge that shes on the case.
I agreeeeee but i have taken photos of fireworks because they make nice edited pics. Lots of colour, light and abstract shapes to work with.
Show me please.
I noticed that even though I don’t take a ton of photos, I never seemed to look at the ones I took. Ended up just using my whole camera photo album as the standby screen on my TV so it just shows random photos and I finally got some use out of them. It’s been oddly fun to see random photos taken like 15 years ago pop up that I completely forgot about.
Same, iphone has a setting to rotate the lock screen image with photos from your library, that's the only time I've actually looked at any of the pics I've taken
This is why I have a bunch of Nest Hubs. Right now they're cycling through pet photos and it's nice to look at them randomly and be like "oh yeah I remember that".
The hubs are also nice sometimes for googling things and having my data stolen I guess, but mostly the photos
If you do, please tag what show you saw.
I love finding videos of shows either my friends or I have put on. Pyros do search for their shows.
I knew a kid who was obsessed with watching these on YouTube when she was like 3 or 4.
it’s more to flex on friends and post / share it
If you don't share it on social media, did it really happen?
Last time I did that, the family was on the river in our little 10' boat and the downtown fireworks were very nearly overhead. Wild! The boat was full of shell fragments! This year they moved us back. :(
As someone who does it professionally. There is a very real risk being that close. We have shells that go up and don't explode, we have hang fires where it doesn't launch when it's supposed to and then does when the smoldering paper finally touches the lift, and we have some that don't reach apogee and explode at the wrong height.
It's a thrill, I know. I love watching them launch and being that close. But it comes with some dangers.
Ah yes, because using a phone to record something requires you to physically glue your eyes to the screen, with no ability whatsoever to look up after getting it set up...
Especially now that it's usually 3 swipes and a button press away...
I like the downvotes you're getting for telling the truth