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07/07/2004 12:56:46 AM · #26 |
| I combine Jacko's "drink beer" and zeuszen's "dance alone". But ya gotta have some good music too. Just discovered one of my favorite reggae songs (Stir It Up) on a Delbert McClinton album (Never Been Rocked Enough). Imagine that. |
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07/07/2004 01:04:44 AM · #27 |
Yep. Do something brand new. If you always take flower macros, time for machinery and industrial shots. Go do something you've never done before and make it lovely!
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07/07/2004 01:12:50 AM · #28 |
I am in the SAME exact position. Ever since I got my 10D, all my challenge entries totally bombed, literally. I mean, here are my last three scores and all taken with the 10D: 1%, 29% and 7%. If those are not pathetic, I do not know what is. I decided before the extraordinary challenge that I was going to take a break just because my scores were so terrible and I think that's the wise thing to do. I need to study why my pictures are doing poorly. I know why with one of them because it wasn't obvious enough but the other two I thought were very good. But you know what they say, someone is always going to be better than you. In my case, at least 71% were better and up to 99%. So, am I burned out? Maybe. Will I stop taking photos? No way. Sharing them with the world is a different story that is to be continued.
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07/07/2004 02:33:18 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by MrAkamai:
I am in the SAME exact position. Ever since I got my 10D, all my challenge entries totally bombed, literally. <<<< text snipped >>>
Sharing them with the world is a different story that is to be continued. |
Just posted a detailed critique on your extraordinary challenge. Hope it helps - but please do NOT stop sharing!!
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07/07/2004 03:52:00 AM · #30 |
Did I just stumble on a support group or what? This is exactly what I need at this point, I'm in the same boat as you guys and glad to know I'm not alone and that there are ways to get around it.
I've taken on a few hobbies in the past and lost interest after a while and was getting worried that my photography would follow the same pattern. I knew though that I didn't completely lose interest. Am still reading the forums and voting on images. It's amazing to see so many good images and I wonder how others' work are so well done and the ideas that people come up with are so new to me and not anything I would have come up with. Add the fact that every photos I took during this slump are uninteresting and meaningless. Uninspired, yes.
I did manage to enter the Purple challenge but missed about 6 or 7 before that and took something for the advertisement but was late in submitting. Maybe this will jumpstart it. I'm sort of hoping to have an entry for the Freedom II and Words or mabe take one challenge at a time and get on a personal project outside of DPC.Even my website didn't get updated in june. I will probably try something in July and follows the advise on this thread.
Thanks for the good suggestions guys. Wheww I feel like I have options now and not feeling as trapped. Great suggestions all.
I will probably try other forms of photography, street photography being one of them. I also wanna do some that generate feeling and mood, so people candid or actual. There is one project that I'd like to get involved in which is photographing strangers where I would take people on the streets, approach them after I took the photo and hand them a business card with a note that their photos will be up on the internet within 3 to5 days, and to contact me if they have any objection. I would also like to offer them a print of their photos. There's one hurdle though, I'm extremely shy!.
Let me see if I kill the thread, if that's the case I would hide under the table for one day.
Message edited by author 2004-07-07 10:46:15.
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07/07/2004 06:15:12 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by bruchen:
Did I just stumble on a support group or what? |
Hello, my name is David ... and I am uninspired.
I have not entered a challenge in a while, although I have participated in the forums. I dd put an entry in the June Free Study that is going to be my lowest score to date, but I am glad that it finally peeked above the 5.0 mark.
Reading here and there around the web I came across a web site that really struck a cord with me, particularly this page of Classroom Creativity Killers. I can say that I have been on the receiving end of several of these during and just before my own personal slump.
So I am going to find the various creativity killers effecting me and see if my creativity comes back after doing so. I encourage those of you in this support group to do the same; but don't just think about them, write them down. I will be starting this tomorrow as it is late here; I will be writing them down, and then go back over the list writing down any more that come to me as I look it over, until I can't remember any more. At that point I bet I have a strong idea of what to do to get my creativity back and keep it back -- or at least what not to do to keep from loosing it again.
David
Just sharing with the group. ;) |
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07/07/2004 07:45:32 AM · #32 |
Funny, I recently made two entries in my new blog about a slump I was in. When I really stopped to think about it, I found that I had become desparate to nail a "wow" shot instead of continuing to take pictures (and letting the wow shot emerge naturally).
I respectfully disagree with the "take a break" camp. When you're not doing well, then something has gone wrong in your technique or attitude. Problems aren't corrected by ignoring them. However, by doing something new you are unencumbered by the expectation of past photographic experiences. This might be just what you need to clearly see through the haze and get back on track.
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07/07/2004 08:50:15 AM · #33 |
| I know how to solve this burnout problem. Anyone experiencing burnout with a DSLR should immediately sell it to me, along with all of their lenses for $10. No more problem! |
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07/07/2004 09:38:38 AM · #34 |
I don't disagree with the take a break advice - it can really work well. My advice, if you really need to be taking photos, is to try to recreate a shot you really like: not with any intention beyond that of learning the techniques, and perhaps not even with the intention of ever using the results.
Look at your shots and try to think clearly 'what don't I like about this one?' - and be really specific. A generalised 'it's too messy' is not good enough. Work towards absolute specifics: you'll find that your ideas start to move you away from the original shot, maybe into territory you never knew existed. Just over the next hill ...
The process of taking the shots you don't like is just as important as the process of taking the shots you love.
I have an idea for 'words' - I can picture the shot exactly in my mind, it's a version of something I saw a long while ago. But when I take it, and as I'm shooting it, it will change, in composition, and execution, because our imaginations are not perfect.
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07/07/2004 09:49:41 AM · #35 |
Me too...
I have hardly touched my camera for weeks now. I don't feel motivated. I have tried to go on tour with a dear friend of mine, but I just seems to chicken out at the last minute. :(
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07/08/2004 03:35:10 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by photom:
Just posted a detailed critique on your extraordinary challenge. Hope it helps - but please do NOT stop sharing!! |
Tom-
Thank you for your comments and I did read them a couple of times and I appreciate your input. I had a feeling that the entry wouldn't and didn't do well because of the same points you mentioned. Lesson learned and I need to move on. I did try to work on curves to brighten up his face but I think I lack the Photoshop skills to properly use curves to get the desired effect.
And to prove that I'm not sitting on my butt I went out and took some pictures (posted in the Misc gallery) and I finally posted my 2004 fireworks pictures. There are only two new photos in the misc section because the rest are similar and also grainy because of my absetmindedness. I forgot I was shooting with ISO set to 800 for the fireworks so that's what I was using this afternoon. That explains the odd exposure settings. Anywho, enjoy.
Fireworks 2004:
//www.dpchallenge.com/portfolio.php?USER_ID=8054&collection_id=3541
Misc:
//www.dpchallenge.com/portfolio.php?USER_ID=8054&collection_id=3348
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07/25/2004 05:10:03 AM · #37 |
Originally posted by mirdonamy:
I am just discouraged. I didn't even do the last photo project on //www.sh1ft.org and I always do those. I am going to try to do the scavenger hunt though. I haven't lost the love and fun in the technicalities, it's the creativity of the photo subject and shot that I seem to be lacking. |
Thank you for sharing this site... i am soo excited to be able to join in... anymore sites like DPC or sh1ft that anyone would like to share?
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07/25/2004 10:01:25 AM · #38 |
Originally posted by coolhar:
I combine Jacko's "drink beer" and zeuszen's "dance alone". But ya gotta have some good music too. Just discovered one of my favorite reggae songs (Stir It Up) on a Delbert McClinton album (Never Been Rocked Enough). Imagine that. |
Take it a little further, dance naked in front of your pets. The look on their faces should inspire either laughter or a photo taking frenzy. Seriously, I'm not a formally trained photog, so I'm going back to school at the community college to learn.
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