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06/06/2005 12:02:06 PM · #1 |
| Who/what inspired you to take up photography? A favoutite image or photographer? What drives you to keep "snapping" |
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06/06/2005 12:07:16 PM · #2 |
| My failed attempts at drawing made me pick up a camera. What drives me is my ability to fool myself by thinking that I am painting. :) |
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06/06/2005 12:08:20 PM · #3 |
DPC as an answer to both questions.
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06/06/2005 12:11:06 PM · #4 |
My children initially, now it's just a drive I have to continue to improve (mainly due to this website). Plus the fact that I just love it. :-)
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06/06/2005 12:13:09 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by xion:
My failed attempts at drawing made me pick up a camera. What drives me is my ability to fool myself by thinking that I am painting. :) |
LOL! Me too! I come from a family of painters and photography was my only way of competing:))
I found Dorothea Lange inspiring, as well as Lewis Hines. |
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06/06/2005 12:14:21 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Konador:
DPC as an answer to both questions. |
It seems to have the opposite effect on me...the lower my scores the more I start looking for a painting course:)) |
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06/06/2005 12:16:25 PM · #7 |
An inability to paint. Since my results here have been dismal at best, perhaps I should go back to the brush. At least then I had an excuse.
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06/06/2005 12:17:46 PM · #8 |
i need some inpiration at the moment, lately, I have not been able to go out and play with my camera.. feel kind of down because of it
if any one has some good vibes, aim them this way ;)
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06/06/2005 12:26:50 PM · #9 |
| I think we all have 'dips' when we 'lose the muse'...that's when I look back at those photgraphers who inspired me...I looked at your profile - you have RIBBONS!!!! Or is photography like most art - you are only as good as your last image? |
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06/06/2005 12:30:39 PM · #10 |
Ha ha, Xion and Alienyst,
I also took up photography due to my lack of ability to draw. I have been shooting professionally for years now and the last 2 press awards I have won (in 2001 & 2003 ) have both been for my illustrations. Go figure. My best reward is when people like the photos I shoot for them, (and I make money:)) |
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06/06/2005 12:31:10 PM · #11 |
As far back as I remember, probably I was about 4, which is almost 50 years ago but we won't go there, I used to sit for hours and look at my grandparent's family album, Life magazine and N.G.
It was digital and DPC that got me snapping on a regular basis. |
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06/06/2005 12:48:23 PM · #12 |
I've always loved taking pictures. But since I've been in college, seeing how much control you can have over a photograph, not just with the camera, but with the cropping really made me want to become more involved with it. Seeing how with a photograph and through cropping and such you can make a place that seems ordinary otherwise, look extraordinary.
That and I can't draw. It's a release for creativity. |
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06/06/2005 01:00:24 PM · #13 |
I have never had a hobby to call my own... I've tried every artsy-crafty thing you can think of, and nothing really fit. I would give it up after a few weeks, either out of frustration, boredom, or both. After getting a digital camera and taking pics of my kids and other family members, and hearing their encouraging comments, I thought "Why not?" After finding DPC, though, I really started to take it seriously. Now, 4 cameras, 4 lenses, and 98 challenges later, I can't imagine life without photography. I take pictures of everything. Sometimes just to be taking pictures...knowing I'll delete everything on the card...because it's fun.
Simply stated, it is my time for myself. It's my church, it's my therapy, it's MINE. That's why I keep doing it.
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06/06/2005 01:10:11 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by amber:
Who/what inspired you to take up photography? |
My Dad. He had been into 35mm & medium format shooting as long as I can remember. I have many fond memories of us going into the darkroom where he worked (was an aviation equipment manufacturing company) for hours still lingers. Having set up my own darkroom, under the basement stairs back in the early seventies hooked me.
Originally posted by amber:
What drives you to keep "snapping" |
Creativity and the artform that it is. It's a creative outlet for whichever side of my brain that is always hungry for it. |
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06/06/2005 01:11:39 PM · #15 |
| An old member of the site: chakkobbo... he´s the husband of my girlfriend´s cousin. |
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06/06/2005 01:17:04 PM · #16 |
I was previously an artist... worked in oils... my style was realism... got a digital camera in a package with a new computer.... and it has been love ever since!
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06/06/2005 01:18:31 PM · #17 |
Who/what inspired .. ??
DPC
What drives you to keep 'snapping' ??
I am generally crazy about atleast one thing at a time...it has been photography for an year now and now I am going crazy about running too. Let's see what's next |
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06/06/2005 08:31:47 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by BradP:
Originally posted by amber:
Who/what inspired you to take up photography? |
My Dad. He had been into 35mm & medium format shooting as long as I can remember. I have many fond memories of us going into the darkroom where he worked (was an aviation equipment manufacturing company) for hours still lingers. Having set up my own darkroom, under the basement stairs back in the early seventies hooked me.
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I did a short B&W course where we learned to develop our own prints. Even as an adult it seemed like alchemy or magic...Watching your father as a child creating magic must have been incredible. |
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06/06/2005 08:33:37 PM · #19 |
| My grandfather handed me a Minolta 8000i Maxxum and a 50mm lens 2 and a half years ago when I was 12. Here I am today :) |
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