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06/16/2005 02:47:11 PM · #1 |
I was wondering how many of my co-photographers on this site share the same feelings with me about Photography...
For me it's choosing an area, starting my car, reaching there start walking and framing everything that catches my attention. My photos mood vary and almost reflect my mood...
I have to say that it is a relief and a great self expressing act.
I would like to know why you shoot photos and what does it mean to you and how do you feel afterwards... |
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06/16/2005 02:52:02 PM · #2 |
Well, I would tell you. But, you already beat me too it. When I say I take photos for me. That is exactly it. Maybe I am just bored and need a project or somewhere to go. Good, Bad. Doesn't matter as much as the act of doing to me.
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06/16/2005 03:01:07 PM · #3 |
For me, it's seeing something happen before my eyes that in one way or another holds truth that that is larger than the sensor in a way that can be properly captured.
That's why I don't like a lot of the photos that win here...water drops, product-type photos, etc. I need for the image to be bigger than the photo itself so that I can spend time with it, rather than just seeing everything at once...it needs to let me explore a world - not just try and present the whole shiny thing to me at once.
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06/16/2005 03:16:23 PM · #4 |
To Me, Photography is not about trying to appease society but an attempt to delight my soul.
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06/16/2005 03:19:35 PM · #5 |
I've said it in several threads like this one... to me, photography is my therapy, my church, my time for ME. It's my escape from reality. I feel better about myself and my place in the world when I take pictures. Even when they suck! ;0)
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06/16/2005 03:22:08 PM · #6 |
For me it is excitement and disappoint. There is nothing quite like walking and looking for just the right subject. The setting up, framing, waiting for the right light...seeing that bird land in front of you, then the excitement and panic set in. That shutter click, hoping you caught it.
Then you get home and download, and your heart drops...not sharp, blurred, out of focus...that damn bird turned just as you clicked the shutter. Then, the next shot comes on the screen...sharp, bright and just what you hoped for!! That's what photography means to me, and no-one else understands, except fellow photogs!
Steve |
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06/16/2005 03:22:41 PM · #7 |
WoW How loonely would we all be without it.
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06/16/2005 03:25:41 PM · #8 |
| Shooting is great fun (when I'm 'channelling' creative energy, when I'm not it just sucks). But gotta say, it feels really good to see your photos published, online, or just being out there for all to see in general. |
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06/16/2005 04:09:58 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
I've said it in several threads like this one... to me, photography is my therapy, my church, my time for ME. It's my escape from reality. I feel better about myself and my place in the world when I take pictures. Even when they suck! ;0) |
laurie said it best for me but i also would like to add that with my camera taking photos i can be me. totaly 100% ME! photography (and my girls) will be the legacy i leave behind, my own personal immortality
~~Cher~~
edit: looked up spelling for immortality.
Message edited by author 2005-06-16 16:24:45.
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06/16/2005 04:19:43 PM · #10 |
I am trying to "see" things differently...with my right-brain. I am trying to understand art and graphics, there I go again... my left-brain, techie side trying to nail down and quantify the details of the abstract, non-verbal. I am in this for me. I hope I can learn how to express my thoughts and feelings in a photo some day. I am still in the stage of shooting things and hoping for magic, maybe if I stick with it, I can visualize first and then capture my visions.
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06/16/2005 04:20:10 PM · #11 |
I shoot cause I enjoy it, it makes me happy when I can capture an image and people go wow or thats beautiful. It also helps me stay focused on God, I feel more in touch with Him as I shoot His creations and tend to talk more to Him, in turn this makes me even happier.
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06/16/2005 05:26:44 PM · #12 |
what really scares me about going out and shooting is i lose all sense of time and place. I am totally not aware of what is going on around me as I have completely shut off. One day last week when i "awoke" after taking pics I looked up to find two very sucipious men looking at me. I immediately freaked out got in my car very quickly and left. They may of meant no harm but that is the scary thing for me is that i have no idea if i am in any danger or not. Does anyone else feel like this too?
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06/16/2005 05:41:46 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by lentil:
what really scares me about going out and shooting is i lose all sense of time and place. I am totally not aware of what is going on around me as I have completely shut off. One day last week when i "awoke" after taking pics I looked up to find two very sucipious men looking at me. I immediately freaked out got in my car very quickly and left. They may of meant no harm but that is the scary thing for me is that i have no idea if i am in any danger or not. Does anyone else feel like this too? |
I think I'm the opposite ... but I think it has more to do with my surroundings than anything. I've lived in FL since 1998 but it still doesn't feel like home and I'm very cautious about just jumping in my car alone and going places....it's one of the reasons I'm anxious to get back home and visit because I was born and raised in Myrtle Point and know my way around everywhere and have no fear. The BF is great about going places with me....but I'm the type that needs alone time and sometimes I would love to be able to just take off! When I was younger I was so fearless and I would like some of that back (just without the wrecklessness:)!
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06/16/2005 07:28:37 PM · #14 |
i sort of find it as acting... i am 'acting' out every photo, and in a way expressing myself through it, it's hard to explain it, but thats probably it in a nut shell.... as i am so new to this extrodinary love, and have been a stay at home mum for 14 years, i find sooo much self satisfaction and mainly confidence, especially when someone says they 'like' my photo......i'm having trouble though 'not' seeing through a lens, weather i have a camera on me or not, i can be sitting at the traffic lights and constantly seeing little frames coming together, i only wish someone could invent a camera that sits next to our eye, and everytime we see 'that moment' ( coz it's usually only a split second ) you could just blink your eyes and take the shot....lol... i have never been a competitive person in my whole life, but after entering many competitions over the past 8 months i am finding i have become very competitve, i really get a kick out of 'not' winning, as i find it makes me mad and pushes me that little bit further next time..... well not mad, but sortof....lol.....i have found though, since i now express myself through photography, i have a lot of trouble 'speaking' what i mean...... weird eh?....and like Lentil, i loose ALLL sense of time and atmosphere around me, we may have to get someone to watch you and i in sydney, we could end up anywhere...lol.... i was once nearly hit by a car in my own driveway ( we live in a battleaxe block and share it with one other couple) she really thought i heard her coming and thought i would get out of the way..... nope.....she was really mad with me....lol......
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06/16/2005 07:43:01 PM · #15 |
LOL, kel. We will definately have to be watched in Sydney. Man that place is crazy LOL.
I have never experienced that kind of detachment before, and it is quite scary.
What is funny to me is that i analyze "every" situation as to whether it would make a good photo or not. I can be watching an ad on TV and think hey that would make a great photo, i sleep and dream cameras, I watch shows on tv and find myself thinking i am actually there and taking photos. I even thought i took a particular photo and thought i would enter it in the exhibition. LOL, only to realise that I didnt take it and i was dreaming about the whole thing. I think i am losing it. LOL
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06/16/2005 07:52:14 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
I've said it in several threads like this one... to me, photography is my therapy, my church, my time for ME. It's my escape from reality. I feel better about myself and my place in the world when I take pictures. Even when they suck! ;0) |
This is it for me too. I also know exactly what Steve is saying with the excitement/disappointment coin. I also have SO so many ideas in my head that are just bursting to get out but I can't quite manifest them. I walk around and see people on the street and immediately my mind begins creating costumes I'd love to photograph them in (even though I'm not so good at portraiture). I envision images that I think would be an interesting photograph but I can't quite get them to look right once I put them together in my fake studio and snap that picture.
Frustration and joy, plus I love the fact that I live somewhere with breathtaking views and my photography gets me out into nature. :)
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06/16/2005 08:10:31 PM · #17 |
Each press of the shutter
should be a life moment immortalised. I have the power to
keep or discard, but invariably keep,
out of a misplaced sense of self-worth. Each image fails
to capture the moment, spurring me on to find the
lens/angle/subject
that might capture the moment.
Realisation is slow to dawn that life is more
complicated,
but can rarely be reduced so effectively as occurs once in every hundred shots.
That deci-decimation, or worse,
reduces
me to desperation (must shoot more shots)
and greater exultation when the image is good.
My mind works hard, my imagination overflows, my shutter cannot stop.
But then I read a thread on how to interpret the challenge
and my resolve dissolves...
Message edited by author 2005-06-16 20:13:33. |
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06/16/2005 08:17:52 PM · #18 |
It is the highest form of eloquence with which I am able to express myself.
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06/16/2005 08:20:08 PM · #19 |
| eloquence - visually fantastic. good word. |
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