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11/20/2006 05:16:08 PM · #26 |
| I love the challenge, it's almost a high when I get to review my pictures after I am done shooting. It is really easy to impress my family with the photo's I take, but it still feels good. Total artistic outlet for me! |
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11/20/2006 05:20:54 PM · #27 |
I like photography cuz I live thru the eye of my lense. I will never remember an event until I look at the photos and can the reflect on things more indepth. I also use photography to remember places I've been and want to return even if its by looking at them when I'm old and dying. With photography I can capture a moment of my life and virtually remember it forever digitally. Now if I could only get my entire brain into a computer I'd be all set.
edit to add: plus where I go there aren't usually people around as I am not a people person in general.
Message edited by author 2006-11-20 17:21:41. |
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11/20/2006 05:29:41 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by wavelength:
it doesn't suck. :P |
what he said.
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11/20/2006 05:30:42 PM · #29 |
I like photography, because of the nude shoots :-)
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11/20/2006 05:41:28 PM · #30 |
Sounds odd, but I don't know that I have ever said I 'like' photography. For me there are few things in today's world that can have the impact of a solid photograph. Not only has photography helped bring about major social change, think of child labor in the 20's or racial segregation in the 60's, but it also help to convey the beauty and wonder in the world around us. I'm still haunted by images that I saw in my childhood and nothing would please me more than to be able to create those type of images at some point in my life. So I don't know that I 'like' photography, it's just always there in my head struggling to get out.
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11/20/2006 05:47:41 PM · #31 |
It is my only sane escape. Most of my photography never gets seen by anyone. I take some pretty strange and weird shots of unusual things/situations (thank God my new wife understands this). Mostly because I like the challenge of setting it up and getting the shot or the timing of being at a specific location for a specific shot at a specific time. Even though they will never been seen or put in a portfolio or even considered good.
I just wish I had the same imagination and vision for challenge entries. Because I seem to do mediocre at at best with the stuff I enter. |
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11/20/2006 05:48:49 PM · #32 |
The freedom it gives you, and the eternal search for that 'perfect' picture.
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11/20/2006 05:51:50 PM · #33 |
| Cuz my pimpy camera makes me look cool ... |
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11/20/2006 05:55:10 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:
Cuz my pimpy camera makes me look cool ... |
I dunno... that hat and guitar make ya look pretty cool.
Pretty pimpy if ya ask me :-)
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11/20/2006 06:19:35 PM · #35 |
I don't enjoy photography at all. I just do it because I'm so damn good at it. I put a few of my photos on this site because you all suck so bad and need someone to show you how it's done.
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11/20/2006 07:31:53 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by Mick:
I don't enjoy photography at all. I just do it because I'm so damn good at it. I put a few of my photos on this site because you all suck so bad and need someone to show you how it's done. |
Didn't you get the memo? Your services are no longer needed here. |
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11/20/2006 07:50:42 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by Larus:
What about you guys, why do you like it? |
cause I get to make and look at purdy pitchers
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11/20/2006 07:52:54 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I like photography, because of the nude shoots :-) |
I think the search for an honest man has just been completed.
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11/20/2006 07:55:33 PM · #39 |
| ...because I don't know how to paint, draw, sculpt, mold, work with wood, or fabricate metal. So my choices are limited. :^) |
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11/20/2006 07:58:12 PM · #40 |
Photography picked me, hence my career.
My mother cursed me as a young kid. Being punished from the TV one day, I came home to an empty house and turned on the television, against my mothers wishes, and against my punishment.
She caught me.
She immeadiatly cursed me, for the rest of my life, these exact words...
..."You watch so much TV, you should work in the film business".
She could of said..."You watch so much TV, you should produce movies in the film business", but she did not.
So here we are.
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11/20/2006 08:20:40 PM · #41 |
1) I can't draw, and that's always frustrated me because I can see in my mind exactly what I want to create. Photography (once I learn how to properly use my tools) can give me a chance to do that.
2) When Becky-Lee was a toddler she taught me to look at the tiny details of life; the texture of a brick, the variety of colour in a single blade of grass, the play of light through a marble. I like sharing that, hearing people say, "Coooool, I've never noticed that before!"
3) I like cool toys. |
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11/20/2006 08:23:19 PM · #42 |
| Photography, for me, is an expression of art. It's noticing the subtleness of the world that we miss in the blink of an eye...captured as a moment in time with a camera lens...it's a memory that's frozen, to revisit time & time again~ |
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11/20/2006 08:33:44 PM · #43 |
I ask myself this everyday. Esp when I have 3 weddings, one dinner party, and 3 portrait sessions in queue, and they all have to be done is 2 weeks! With, another 3 shoots before Xmas!
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11/20/2006 08:55:37 PM · #44 |
I like photography because it allows me to share all the wonders of God̢۪s creations with those who may not be able to experience those things first hand, and allows for others to see how I view the world through that little piece of glass. My first passion is in the mountains, and combining this with photography is a wonderful gift.
One day I was handed a pen and paper so I drew what I saw, and expressed what I felt in words. On another day I was handed a camera, and the gift of being able to capture life̢۪s experiences looking at the world through the other side of a view finder.
Words and drawings only do a certain amount of poetic justice to the beauty; photography fills in the voids, allows me to capture experiences in a depth that mere words could never quite capture.
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11/21/2006 10:01:59 AM · #45 |
Originally posted by biteme:
Photographing also brings some sort of calmness to me |
Me too. It makes me forget all the things around me and makes me feel relaxed inside. I like photography because most of the time I use it as a way to express myself. For the first time in my life I really feel that I found something that really belongs to me. It just makes me happy and helps me at moments when I feel like shit. |
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11/21/2006 10:07:41 AM · #46 |
When I first got into photography it was just a job for me, a way to make like in the military liveable. Once I really started shooting it became so much more. The joy I feel when I'm shooting is unlike any other feeling I get. I strive to get "the Shot" of whatever it is I'm shooting. I love to see people faces when they see their photos for the first time. As has been said before, it does have a calming effect of me and allows me to see the world in a whole new way. I really don't know what I'd do without my photography.
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11/21/2006 10:50:23 AM · #47 |
| when I'm stressed or down or just frustrated with life in general, I can get my camera out and snap a few and feel better. Even taking a bad picture makes me feel better. Kinda like therapy. Only more expensive. :) |
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11/21/2006 11:06:16 AM · #48 |
Why I like photography:
The brain has infinite storage capacity. But it's archive retrieval leaves something to be desired. A photograph is excellent at triggering that response and remembering not on the details of that moment, but also any emotional response that went with it.
I think of it like looking back on pictures of my childhood. Can't remember most of them worth a darn, but when you see those pictures you think "Wow, that is cool" and "man, I was a FAT baby!" ;-)
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11/21/2006 02:28:29 PM · #49 |
It is something that is uniquiely mine, even if it has a high suckage factor!
Seriously, whether the subject is a flower in our own backyard, a nude in the studio, a beautiful child, food, scenery, an abstract, or anything else this world offers, I have the opportunity to ATTEMPT to share the real \'me\' with the world.
Slowly, VERY slowly, I am learning to capture images that convey the emotional side of me, in a way that others can easily understand. Most people only recognize my blunt, opinionated manner as being a smarta$$, or a know-it-all. Some people even take my jokes as entirely inappropriate / rude. But when they see me get emotional over a picture of their beautiful child (or my own daughters), other parts of my personality become irrelevant.
Still, I\'m happy when those truly magical images find their way into the camera. More importantly, that someone else might find pleasure in viewing that image.
Ok... stopping now because their are a million reasons why I like photography!!! ;)
Message edited by author 2006-11-21 16:30:45. |
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11/21/2006 02:36:44 PM · #50 |
| I like the sound the shutter makes. And the fact that you look cool with your big lense on walking around. |
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