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Different strokes for different folks. (No I won't post another Sly and the Family Stone video link) There is no reason that everyone has to or should feel compelled by others to go for a certain type of photography. It needs to be personal. One goes with what one is drawn to, keep the doors open to what is around and find your way.
When I see something I choose to push the button because I need to. Sometimes I'm with my husband and he says "You ought to take a picture of..." I see what he is after, but he needs to do that himself because it's not for me. But it has to be my inner eye that makes me want to make the image my own. Since coming to digital photography, I have had to learn a great deal.
Way back when I was a photography major as an art student, I developed and printed my own color prints. I thrived on all aspects. The whole digital thing was a huge change for me...even though it had been years since my college days...and my darkroom days. Now I think of LR and the NIK software as my darkroom. I can spend a long time in that darkroom. It's the same kind of out of time experience for me. Ask my husband...he'll find me in the dark, with just my screen aglow...I usually don't hear anything he says to me...and I won't answer the phone - unless it's our daughter. I will let the dog out, but he seems to know not to bother me when I am in my darkroom zone.
I think I have much in common with Christina/christilou when it comes to the creative urge, though I did paint and draw... For me photography is cathartic and exciting, fun and sometimes frustrating (for example when I took a whole roll and realized the film had never caught itself on the sprockets or, the other day, when I forgot to change the ISO!) but most of all it is enlivening.
I'm interested in making the photograph be what I want it to be whether that might be "realistic" or as real as it is in my own mind's eye, it doesn't matter...but it's mine. I do feel as Christina said that when I feel I've "gotten it" that I do leave my mark on the image...my soul mark, perhaps. I don't want to limit myself to any particular genre, but since my life is as it is, things tend to be what is around me...the everyday, I hope with a little different spin on it.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't care what anyone thought, but now that I've come farther along in the digital realm, I am much more secure in my choices...most of the time. I, too, have always loved looking at other people's pictures...from their family pictures to just about everything. Photographs are my impressions of this all too fleeting life. Sometimes that will mean they're of my dog, or a cat, or a neighbor's "lawn ornaments" or a building or another human being... I'd like to become faster at my picture making as in clicking the shutter.
When I see something I choose to push the button because I need to. Sometimes I'm with my husband and he says "You ought to take a picture of..." I see what he is after, but he needs to do that himself because it's not for me. But it has to be my inner eye that makes me want to make the image my own. Since coming to digital photography, I have had to learn a great deal.
Way back when I was a photography major as an art student, I developed and printed my own color prints. I thrived on all aspects. The whole digital thing was a huge change for me...even though it had been years since my college days...and my darkroom days. Now I think of LR and the NIK software as my darkroom. I can spend a long time in that darkroom. It's the same kind of out of time experience for me. Ask my husband...he'll find me in the dark, with just my screen aglow...I usually don't hear anything he says to me...and I won't answer the phone - unless it's our daughter. I will let the dog out, but he seems to know not to bother me when I am in my darkroom zone.
I think I have much in common with Christina/christilou when it comes to the creative urge, though I did paint and draw... For me photography is cathartic and exciting, fun and sometimes frustrating (for example when I took a whole roll and realized the film had never caught itself on the sprockets or, the other day, when I forgot to change the ISO!) but most of all it is enlivening.
I'm interested in making the photograph be what I want it to be whether that might be "realistic" or as real as it is in my own mind's eye, it doesn't matter...but it's mine. I do feel as Christina said that when I feel I've "gotten it" that I do leave my mark on the image...my soul mark, perhaps. I don't want to limit myself to any particular genre, but since my life is as it is, things tend to be what is around me...the everyday, I hope with a little different spin on it.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't care what anyone thought, but now that I've come farther along in the digital realm, I am much more secure in my choices...most of the time. I, too, have always loved looking at other people's pictures...from their family pictures to just about everything. Photographs are my impressions of this all too fleeting life. Sometimes that will mean they're of my dog, or a cat, or a neighbor's "lawn ornaments" or a building or another human being... I'd like to become faster at my picture making as in clicking the shutter.