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 02/18/2008 05:32:39 PM · #26
I like the frozen in time, moments that a photograph captures.
I can look back on photos I've taken and get a sense of what was up for me emotionally or creatively.
To remember a particular scene, person or object as I saw it at that point in time.
Trying to capture what my mind has interpreted by what caught a glimpse of.
 02/18/2008 06:44:56 PM · #27
Being a photographer you look at the world in an entirely differnent way I think.
02/18/2008 07:07:01 PM · #28
For me it was needing a job while inthe Navy that had the least amount of physical labor involved. It then became infused with who I am. The only time I truely relax and just am is when I'm shooting.
 02/18/2008 07:12:30 PM · #29
Its nice to look at my photos and remembering who I was with at the time of the shot, what I heard, the mood I was in, or what the weather was like that day.
 02/18/2008 07:13:10 PM · #30
Originally posted by cryan:
For me it was needing a job while inthe Navy that had the least amount of physical labor involved. It then became infused with who I am. The only time I truely relax and just am is when I'm shooting.


...and then you realized just how dang heavy a photo bag full of lenses can really get as you schlep it along for that hike ;)
 02/18/2008 07:50:55 PM · #31
1) It's fun
2) It's a good outlet for some creativity, and I am not creatively inclined in other areas.
3) I'm a tech geek. As my Ex used to say, I love anything with lots of buttons and switches.
4) I compete on DPC because I do not like cheap praise. (Thank my dad for that trait, he always gave me the truth, or at least his unvarnished, honest opinion!)
 02/18/2008 07:58:26 PM · #32
I am an artistic photographer. I started out as a traditional artist, and I still draw today. However, my drawings never could absolutely capture what I wanted. I lacked a certain skill to create what I wanted. Photography, I am a photo hound I love photos, have always played around snapping images of people and stuff. In the military I started taking portraits for pay, and even ran the portrait studio at one of my duty locations. After that, I lose touch for a few years, then picked it back up. Now, with digital medias I can create images more to what my mind sees. With the combination of the digital photograph and my artistic skills I have been able to bring more of what I see to life.
 02/18/2008 10:43:28 PM · #33
It's my way of capturing moments that I want to never end.....and then for me, they never do.

I guess that's why it amuses and strikes me as odd when someone likes my work.

There's no way they can see it like I do and know the story.....how can they like it?


02/18/2008 10:47:07 PM · #34
I always feel better when I have my camera in my hands. I belong behind the camera. From about the age of 13 I have always had better days while shooting. It doesnt matter what I'm shooting.
 02/18/2008 11:17:05 PM · #35
Photography is my perpetual motion machine. So few things allow me to put 110% of my focus and energy into them and return 150%. No matter how liberally I expend the energy shooting, composing, or editing; I am always far higher and more revitalized than I started out that day. It is the closest thing to Zen that I have experienced.

ETA: Oh yeah...and for the ladies!

Message edited by author 2008-02-18 23:18:23.
 02/19/2008 02:08:00 AM · #36
We imagine that what we see is what is there is to see. Even in the best and worst planned photographs we are confounded. What greater venture can there be?
 02/19/2008 02:26:00 AM · #37
Because I get to blow things up. Hmm...not using film so no blowing up anymore.

Seriously:

- Its a creative outlet.
- There is a certain serenity to it. When you are having a good day of shooting, going at your own pace and really "seeing" the shot, none of my everyday stresses are in my mind at all.
- I see "shots" even when I am not shooting. This shows that its helped me try to see the world differently. I try to see different perspectives. Physically and in terms of my own opinions.

02/19/2008 02:45:29 AM · #38
People say that being artist is an innate thing. I never believed it.

To answer OP:

In my 12th standard in school, I wished to give a gift to one of my friend for her birthday. I thought a painting would make a good gift. But there were issues that being student I could not buy painting from market.
so spent 3$ for a painting book for learning. Another 2$ for colors etc. And started learning it.
This is how I became painter.
About photography, being very busy I can not paint now. So other option for me is to do photography, which is lazy visual art since to create something I need just a click. (and now little bit of PP).
02/19/2008 03:51:56 AM · #39
Because I enjoy the self discovery. I capture what I like and I continue to capture to find out why.

Message edited by author 2008-02-19 03:52:16.
 02/19/2008 05:37:47 AM · #40
I am a photographer because my wife took away my gun and my badge. She told me being a federal narcotics agent was non condusive to our relationship and it was dangerous for me and stressfull for her at home while I was working. So I picked up my cameras and now run into fires, riots, Iraq, bank robberies, under ground fight clubs and seedy race clubs. I cover the violent world of the slave trade and politicians cheating on there wives and their industry here in San Diego.. Last I check about a hundred people wanted to kill me including Gang Bangers who don't like me photographing there rituals. I do it because I have a passion for living. you really don't feel alive unlsess you feell your life is threatened at some point or another. May sound conradictive but you have to live in my shoes to see what it is that drives me to take those photographs. This year I have began my process getting away from photojournalism now that I have made a name for my self and I can convert that name over into the wedding industry So now I worry about Aunt Betty and Uncle Ephraham kickin the crap out of me in the parking lot over a discrepency in the total bill.

Message edited by author 2008-02-19 06:16:44.
 02/19/2008 05:52:55 AM · #41
Glad to see you gave up the "dangerous" occupation.
02/19/2008 05:54:44 AM · #42
I'm not either. I'm a hack with a nice camera.

Message edited by author 2008-02-20 02:38:58.
 02/19/2008 06:32:49 AM · #43
I got into photography because of my kids. I wanted to be able to take good shots of them. Its become a family thing now - way beyond the snapshots of a couple of years ago. We all like creating and participating. It's not just "dad is the photographer". We are a photo family. And now we even get paid to take good pics of other peoples kids. How cool is that.
 02/19/2008 08:51:41 AM · #44
edited to remove poetry

Message edited by author 2008-02-19 13:25:58.
 02/19/2008 08:55:18 AM · #45
just evolution :)

I always enjoyed visual arts. I started with painting/drawing, I bought a computer and I started comp. graphics (pov-ray/3dsmax), I bought a camera and I started taking pictures. I don't consider myself a photographer as I don't consider myself a painter or a graphist. It's fun, plus, I'm an engineer and I like things with buttons & parts that I can take apart, lol.

-n.
02/19/2008 09:05:20 AM · #46
escape
it's fun
to show off
because its there
never ending toys & gadgets
i like to make others 'think'
something to do when i retire
it is a relatively solitary pursuit
i don't know anyone else that does it (show in galleries)
02/19/2008 10:23:38 AM · #47
Compensating.

(wow, that's a long lens sir)

Actually, it's mostly for family snaps now-a-days. I have to do more challenges.
 02/19/2008 11:04:55 AM · #48
Looking through the viewfinder gives me a sort of tunnel vision that lets ignore things around me for a little while, an 'escape' as Julia graciously put it. For that brief moment I am secluded from reality, in a dimension where things are only what I see (or choose to see), not what people expect me to see. The lens lets me temporarily filter out life's little mishaps and calamities. The end result can be a true expression of how I'm really feeling at the time of capture, or perhaps it's a fictitious facade that hides an inner turmoil.

Hopefully some of my photographs provide a brief escape for somebody else as well.

But above all, my face does NOT belong in front of the camera. :-/
 02/19/2008 11:19:06 AM · #49
I'm a photographer because I have this camera thing, but not if it means anything else. I'm not an artist. Pictures scream at us all day long from screens and walls and books and buses, so it's nice to make some.
 02/19/2008 11:29:53 AM · #50
I like the "share factor."
I like the way that the viewfinder isolates the good (or sometimes ugly) parts of a view that are worth sharing. An example would be a wonderful landscape view from the edge of an ugly cookie cutter housing development.
It's also a great way to get rid of all those pesky piles of cash that seem to clutter up the place by exchanging them for new lenses and accessories.
I like tools and gadgets. Camera equipment has some of the coolest engineering and precision machined toys on the planet that are available to ordinary people.
I like to interact with on line friends, and photo sharing and discussion about photography here at DPC does that. So that's full circle. I like the "share factor."
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