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02/20/2008 07:37:16 AM · #1 |
| Photography is a celebration of the gift of sight and the appreciation of beauty. |
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02/20/2008 06:46:00 AM · #2 |
"Why are you a Photographer/Artist?"
I didn't know I had a choice. |
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02/20/2008 02:37:19 AM · #3 |
I come from a family where you literally ALWAYS had a camera in your face or in your hand.
My brothers were always dreaming up things to photograph and anyone around
had to be in the photo. The weirdest shot I ever saw him take was the time I walked into our backyard
to find him on his back with his bare foot in the air and he was holding an egg in his toes!!
He called it "Egg in toes"...original.
I remember that I received a Kodak camera when I was eight. I still have
the photos. I upgraded to the C-110 that you just dropped a cartridge in...
I have photos of Joe Cocker from my third row seat at a concert taken with a Kodak Instamatic.
I had my first 35mm when I was 13.
I used to say that my brother was sorta like Steven Spielberg only with a still camera.
Photos are just catching those moments and having them bring back so many memories.
I cherish all that I have taken.
It's just such a passion. |
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02/19/2008 11:52:08 PM · #4 |
Like littlegett, I've always worked at visual arts - drawing/painting, naturally, but never managed to quite get it where I wanted and I've been stuck for years and years and years.... On top of that, I've always annoyed people with all my pointing at things. I'm always looking around and just observing things - I think the world is the weirdest/neato-ey-est place ever. Whenever I've had a camera, I've shot constantly, even when I was young. Then digital happened and I bought a camera so I could capture textures for web/graphic design, and from there I took off again. I haven't gotten far, but it's more satisfying than drawing so far.
Short version: Photography allows me to both capture the wonder in the everyday world as well as create/manufacture even more wonders as they get stuck in my head. I'm starting to call myself an artist because I might be a little nuts. ;) |
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02/19/2008 12:17:13 PM · #5 |
This is how I became a photographer:
Back when I was studying Computer science, I always wanted to get into the graphics/computer animation field. At the time the university I attended did not offer a bachelor in Computer animation so I studied computer science hoping I could specialize in some sort of graphics or animation design. I found out that the College of architecture had an excellent Master degree in visualization sciences where companies like ILM and Pixar were hiring right off the graduation bench. So I decided to get a minor in Environemtal design. The courses I was took were all in B&W photography (since I cannot draw worth crap :P)
I took it for 2 years until I graduated, which I got married and my priorities changed. So the idea of the computer animation career was benched and never revived since I make a good living programming and dont have to work as many hours as the animators do.
About 3 years ago, I discovered digital and been doing it since. I ran into this site last summer been hooked since.
Thats my story, and I am sticking to it ;)
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02/19/2008 12:08:32 PM · #6 |
Like anything else that's a creative challenge, there is enjoyment/satisfaction in obtaining the rusults I set out to create.
I've always saved a "Slice-of-time" of all my relatives and travels. That's the Journalistic/Archiver side of me.
Lastly ther is the hope and satisfaction of bringing someone else joy, happiness, excitement, or any mood, that will make them pay for my services.
Creativity, Documentation, Income
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02/19/2008 11:29:53 AM · #7 |
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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02/19/2008 11:19:06 AM · #8 |
| 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. |
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02/19/2008 11:04:55 AM · #9 |
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. :-/ |
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02/19/2008 10:23:38 AM · #10 |
Compensating.
(wow, that's a long lens sir)
Actually, it's mostly for family snaps now-a-days. I have to do more challenges. |
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02/19/2008 09:05:20 AM · #11 |
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)
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02/19/2008 08:55:18 AM · #12 |
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.
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02/19/2008 08:51:41 AM · #13 |
edited to remove poetry
Message edited by author 2008-02-19 13:25:58. |
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02/19/2008 06:32:49 AM · #14 |
| 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. |
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02/19/2008 05:54:44 AM · #15 |
I'm not either. I'm a hack with a nice camera.
Message edited by author 2008-02-20 02:38:58. |
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02/19/2008 05:52:55 AM · #16 |
Glad to see you gave up the "dangerous" occupation.
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02/19/2008 05:37:47 AM · #17 |
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. |
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02/19/2008 03:51:56 AM · #18 |
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.
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02/19/2008 02:45:29 AM · #19 |
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).
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02/19/2008 02:26:00 AM · #20 |
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.
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02/19/2008 02:08:00 AM · #21 |
| 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? |
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02/18/2008 11:17:05 PM · #22 |
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. |
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02/18/2008 10:47:07 PM · #23 |
| 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. |
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02/18/2008 10:43:28 PM · #24 |
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?
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02/18/2008 07:58:26 PM · #25 |
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.
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