Was at a jazz concert last night, fairly laid back atmosphere but still in a darkened room with stage lit up etc, had paid a fair wack to be there. During the 3 hour show, the guy in front of me was holding his phone up probably every 10-15m throughout taking pictures and videos, multiple ones at a time where he messed about for ages with the framing and settings, his screen lit up the whole time. This gives me the rage as my eye and attention kept being drawn away from the stage and the music to the little flashing moving rectangle of light directly in my eyeline. Especially annoying at climactic moments or when you were previously I lost in the music. At one point I tapped him on the shoulder and said "sorry but that's quite distracting", he seemed very surprised and stopped for about 2m then just went back to taking photos and videos every 10m again. I noticed though that there were some other people throughout the audience taking photos, so didn't say anything to him again plus he obviously just didn't care about me.
Is it U of me to be so distracted and ragey by all these bright little screens and flashes from people's phones in the auditorium? Or is it reasonable now to be able to take photos at gigs where there aren't specific rules announced at the start? I don't mind so much someone taking a few quick photos, it's more when they seem to spend practically equal amounts of time photo taking and actually watching/listening. And when their screen is so brightly lit...aaaargh.
Incidentally it also drives me mad when people take photos of pictures in art galleries - what on EARTH is the point? And was at a fireworks display the other day with people taking photos and videos of that, again it seems utterly pointless, surely it is an experience to enjoy live and in the moment. But at least in art galleries and fireworks displays it's not quite so distracting as in a darkened auditorium...
AIBU? Do I need to move with the times?