{"id":1969,"date":"2013-12-13T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2013-12-13T07:01:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T14:01:54","slug":"the-most-needed-lesson-at-school-winter-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/2013\/12\/13\/the-most-needed-lesson-at-school-winter-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Needed Lesson at School Winter Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools are about education so this should be easy to communicate. When going to your child&#8217;s winter concert here&#8217;s a quick tip for you. Silence the shutter sound on your device!<\/p>\n<p>We get it. You have a fancy iPad or the new iPhone. So does half the world by now. We understand! Really we do! Never mind you block the view of every person behind you. That I can forgive. But we don&#8217;t need to hear the clicky click shutter sound every time you are taking a picture!<\/p>\n<p>Last night I was at my daughters Winter Choral Concert and right behind me I had an iPad right behind my ear clickety clicking the entire time. <\/p>\n<h3>Excuse #1: &#8220;But I can&#8217;t see what I&#8217;m taking a picture of!!!&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>That&#8217;s an eye problem not a device problem.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gray_horizontal_breaker.gif\" alt=\"gray_horizontal_breaker\" width=\"625\" height=\"10\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-890\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Excuse #2: But I don&#8217;t want to take too many pictures accidentally!&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Oh sorry. I forgot how frustrating it can be to only have 32 exposures and have to wait 24 hours to get your prints developed. Exactly.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gray_horizontal_breaker.gif\" alt=\"gray_horizontal_breaker\" width=\"625\" height=\"10\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-890\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The most common excuse: I can&#8217;t tell if I took the picture!<\/h3>\n<p>Clearly, the sound isn&#8217;t helping you either because you fired off 20 shots in 30 seconds. You aren&#8217;t documenting the leap of a leopard for National Geographic. You were taking a picture of your kid and 50 other strange kids in between songs!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gray_horizontal_breaker.gif\" alt=\"gray_horizontal_breaker\" width=\"625\" height=\"10\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-890\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The only reasonable excuse for iPad users: I don&#8217;t know how to turn the sound off!&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, there is no way in settings to turn off the sound (unless you jailbreak). Fortunately there is a workaround. It can be tricky so pay close attention to my directions:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/iOS_4.3_iPad_Toggle_Option_for_Orientation_Mute.jpg\" alt=\"iOS_4.3_iPad_Toggle_Option_for_Orientation_Mute\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1970\" \/><br \/>\nStep 1: Flip the switch on the side to silence mode(red color)<br \/>\nStep 2: Instantly stop annoying everyone else.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gray_horizontal_breaker.gif\" alt=\"gray_horizontal_breaker\" width=\"625\" height=\"10\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-890\" \/><br \/>\nThank you for your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools are about education so this should be easy to communicate. When going to your child&#8217;s winter concert here&#8217;s a quick tip for you. Silence the shutter sound on your device! We get it. You have a fancy iPad or the new iPhone. So does half the world by now. We understand! Really we do! 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