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08/07/2007 08:56:49 PM · #1 |
When I was in the 7th grade I decided to try out for the local swim team because I had always been a strong swimmer. I made the team and was put in the swim lanes with the high schoolers. I was on cloud nine for about two practices. That's when it hit me that I liked to swim for me and I didn't like being forced to do the butterfly, the breast stroke, etc... I lasted about another week and then I pretty much hated swimming. It's not that I'm lazy or not a hard worker - I was a Marine for nine years - it's just that there are certain things I do for me and don't like to be forced to do them... why am I telling you all this? Because I just did my first senior portraits for a friend at work. She paid me well and the pictures turned out nice, but I'll never do another set. I just can't stand editing pictures that don't have a emotional attachment for me.
Am I weird? Does anyone else feel this way? |
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08/07/2007 08:59:48 PM · #2 |
not weird at all. that's how i feel about swimming, but i can separate work photography from mine. they are very different. one is a job, (when it happens...) and the other is a passion.
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08/07/2007 09:01:36 PM · #3 |
Nope you are not alone in that boat. Thats why I won't do weddings and have thousands of unedited images on archives.
If the model turns into a jerk.. I tend to loose interest in the images... unless there is something just fantastic... but those are normally done first, and well everything just gets old and sits there L()L
But yea.. thats why people say, do something you love for work, because than it won't seem like work. So many people hate their jobs. But also so many people have grown to hate their hobbies because they turned them into jobs. Just gotta find a happy middle ground somewhere...
Don't ask me though... I'm still looking myself.
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08/07/2007 09:02:03 PM · #4 |
Not at all! I haven't had any professional experience, but I don't think I'd like to HAVE to do sittings, etc.
I do know, though, that my nephew (who IS a professional) totally burnt out and quit photography to spend a year in Thailand, teaching English.
He'd like to get the training needed to go back with the diplomat's office.
Photography as art was his passion, but to pursue that he needed to make it his "day job" as well, doing what others wanted, not what HE wanted. That did NOT work! |
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08/07/2007 09:03:34 PM · #5 |
I hate editing weddings, but I do it. It's worth it to me. I don't really care for editing every zit off a young model's face either, but I don' let many out without editing.
Message edited by author 2007-08-07 21:14:46.
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08/07/2007 09:24:17 PM · #6 |
| I once was also a great swimmer. The best among millions. This was before fertilization of the egg, of course. All the other tadpoles thought that I was gonna win the big race, and I did. That was a proud day. |
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08/07/2007 09:32:19 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Atropos:
I once was also a great swimmer. The best among millions. This was before fertilization of the egg, of course. All the other tadpoles thought that I was gonna win the big race, and I did. That was a proud day. |
You're not my brother, are you? He'd post something like that. :)
Anyway, nope, Todd, you're not alone. As I'm sure happens to many people here, various folks have asked whether I'd consider doing this professionally. After I recover from laughing so hard I cry, I explain that then I'd just have to find a hobby.
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08/07/2007 09:34:08 PM · #8 |
I understand you completely! I have a lot of people asking if I sell my shots, if I will do some work for them and 99% of the time I turn them down. I have sold a few shots (usually for publications where I just have to email them the jpg) but I have no desire to make this into a business. I am happy doing what I am doing, no pressure, no worries.
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08/07/2007 09:38:01 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by levyj413:
Originally posted by Atropos:
I once was also a great swimmer. The best among millions. This was before fertilization of the egg, of course. All the other tadpoles thought that I was gonna win the big race, and I did. That was a proud day. |
You're not my brother, are you? He'd post something like that. :) |
Nope, I don't have a brother. I would have had a twin but I punched him in the face right before we got to the egg. We would have got there simultaneously but I knocked him out cold, I wasn't about to share the grand prize of 9 months of spa treatment. |
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