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08/13/2006 02:08:20 PM · #1 |
I am starting this thread as I am sure most of you feel the same way but I am curious if that is the case or not.
I had some free time today so I spent some of it sorting some of my old photos into folders and such and therefore viewed a whole lot of old photos I had taken 2002-2005. I remember I used to love a lot of these shots, was infinately proud of them but now when I see them I can´t help but wonder if I was smoking crack at the time, these shots SUCK BIGTIME and I can´t for the life of me understand why the heck I liked them at the time. Heck, I am just watching stuff I did not even a year ago and I feel like flogging myself for liking this not even 12 months earlier. What the hell was I thinking?
Is this just a sign I am getting better and have higher standards now? Or does it mean I sucked then and still suck because if I was happy with some shots 12 months ago and am not happy with them now, surely the same must apply next year when I view the stuff I am doing today. Am I alone in this, does everyone love their shots that they loved a few years back?
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08/13/2006 02:15:00 PM · #2 |
lol your not the only one, looking back at my stuff 2 years ago when I was beginning, I really sucked :P ...
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08/13/2006 02:20:16 PM · #3 |
Look at the two of them saying they sucked a year or two ago. I just hope to one day get to their two-year-ago-suckiness level.
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08/13/2006 02:21:05 PM · #4 |
Yeah, it applies. And I do worry about what I'm doing now and what I'll think about it a year or two down the road, and on and on. It's just terrible.
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08/13/2006 02:27:19 PM · #5 |
| Yes and no. I have several pictures that I still love three years after I started thinking seriously about things, though I often think about going back to the originals and starting the post-processing from scratch since I've learned way to frickin' much since then. But the majority I can safely chalk up to "good idea, not so good execution". |
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08/13/2006 02:50:29 PM · #6 |
My mom has some family pictures hanging on her wall that I took two years ago when I very first started playing with studio lights and backdrops. She likes them ... but boy do they suck! I'd replace them in a heartbeat if we could get everyone back together again!
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08/13/2006 02:57:00 PM · #7 |
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08/13/2006 03:00:24 PM · #8 |
| Yup! I often go What Was I Thinking!!! Although some of my old photos are classics in my mind and I still love them. |
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08/13/2006 03:15:21 PM · #9 |
| Hehehe I must be doing worst since I like more my 2 year old pictures than the new ones...:( |
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08/13/2006 03:29:20 PM · #10 |
| Oddly enough I look back at some of the photos I was doing even 5 years ago with my old little Kodak point and shoot and think to myself "man.. those are better than the crap I'm shooting now..." My processing has improved greatly, but I haven't taken a "whoa" photo in quite some time. |
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08/13/2006 05:04:56 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by karmabreeze:
Yes and no. I have several pictures that I still love three years after I started thinking seriously about things, though I often think about going back to the originals and starting the post-processing from scratch since I've learned way to frickin' much since then. But the majority I can safely chalk up to "good idea, not so good execution". |
I hear ya! I totally wanna go back and redo and reshoot my old photos, take them with a different settings on the camera, from a different angle or with a different lens stuff like that. Mostly though I agree with you on the post processing, I can do stuff now in 3 minutes that makes a shot look better than took me 3 hours a couple of years ago and I am strongly tempted to rework my earlier shots but there are just too many of them and so little time, I figure like karmabreeze says "chalk it up to experience". |
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08/13/2006 05:07:43 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by ursula:
Yeah, it applies. And I do worry about what I'm doing now and what I'll think about it a year or two down the road, and on and on. It's just terrible. |
umm.. somehow i dont think so. You stuff totally rocks!
Larus.. look at it this way. It shows how much you have grown as a photographer and how much you have learnt :)
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08/13/2006 05:10:32 PM · #13 |
uhm no.. not really. I'm still proud of most of the photos I took when I started photography.
Someone once asked me which photo I was proud of in the beginning but didn't like anymore now. I couldn't point to one..
Some photos I entered over here are really stupid, but they don't count :P
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08/13/2006 05:10:48 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by lentil:
Larus.. look at it this way. It shows how much you have grown as a photographer and how much you have learnt :) |
Hehe thanx, really, but I didn´t start this thread to get a pat on the back, I was only curious because I think most of us are like this, think our own stuff sucks when we look back :)
P.S. Totally agree with you that ursula´s stuff rocks! |
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08/13/2006 05:15:21 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Larus:
Originally posted by lentil:
Larus.. look at it this way. It shows how much you have grown as a photographer and how much you have learnt :) |
Hehe thanx, really, but I didn´t start this thread to get a pat on the back, I was only curious because I think most of us are like this, think our own stuff sucks when we look back :)
P.S. Totally agree with you that ursula´s stuff rocks! |
i agree about previous stuff sucking. I look at my first entry and think eeek what on earth possesed me to think that was good. lol.
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08/13/2006 05:21:52 PM · #16 |
I think what it is for me, more than anything else, is this desire to do better, to reach more people, to come up with some way to show even the most mundane little thing in a new light in such a way that it will be meaningful to a large audience. I don't know. Maybe that's not even possible.
I guess I've been looking at so many images over the last years, that by now it seems that nothing is new and wonderful anymore, not in my photography, not in anyone else's. And I wonder if it's just tiredness, or if it's normal, or if it is "information overload".
One thing I know for sure I don't want to do is "more of the same". I very badly want to grow and improve and see things in a new light. |
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