Do changes in other areas of your life prompt changes in your photography?

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Do changes in other areas of your life prompt changes in your photography, whether they be style, gear (other than to meet financial obligations), perspective, etc...?

Just curious.
 
Yes.

I'm blessed with grandchildren.

My son & his wife had a baby boy about a week ago.

Going to photograph him soon.

Lots of smiles & fun!
 
Yes, this is how I started to take it seriously. Can't afford school day digital crapshots and color film photography was getting expensive. With growing family:)
This is how we purchased family DSLR (consumer level). I learned it and purchased FF DSLR later. Using it for family pictures.

I was traveling a lot. And instead of sitting in pub after work I went to walk for hours.
Eventually it brought me back to film rangefinders. It is hard to walk for hours with DSLR and bring them at work. :)
 
Yeah, currently we are doing a major home remodel and replacing most everything. And as I near another birthday, I have this nagging feeling to shed gear and be more active in photographing casual family events (which for some reason, I never really liked to do).
 
Over the last couple of years, I've had a series of injury and illness, so I've not been riding my bike so much. Walking, I'm more able to stop and take photos.

And, with my two lads becoming adults, I was freer to indulge in my hobbies.

Until, unexpectedly, I became the dad to a third boy last summer.

Yes, life has changed how I photograph. And where.
 
Well I never cared for people on photo's. Always avoided having people on them. But lately I realised that my mum is 87 and we hardly have any photo's of her.
 
Big changes in the last few years for me. Two wonderful little girls, three years old and one year old are the key instigators. Much less travel and street photos, and many more portraits, baby photos, action photos and so on. And no regrets! :)

Cheers,
Rob
 
Yes, I moved from London to Australia, now I'm taking the sort of photos that interest me the most, which is natural landscapes.
 
Bill Clark said:
Yes.

I'm blessed with grandchildren.

My son & his wife had a baby boy about a week ago.

Going to photograph him soon.

Lots of smiles & fun!
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This applies to me also. I have grandchildren and they make photography fun. I don't seem to get to do the things that I had planned to be doing but I don't mind too much.
 
I used to commute from the city to the 'burbs and I really found the transitioning landscape (urban to industrial to suburban, with quickly disappearing farm land thrown in) pretty damn interesting.

Now transferred, I walk or bike to work. This is great but my interest in photography has waned as a result. Lots of dog pictures until the fire catches again!
 
Spanik said:
Well I never cared for people on photo's. Always avoided having people on them. But lately I realised that my mum is 87 and we hardly have any photo's of her.
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Indeed. Prompted by comments on here, I have made a point of photographing my dad, which wasn't something I'd really done before.
 
Sometimes the walk with a camera and attending only to the light and what might be found are literally life-saving.
 
Kids for me too. Went from barfly to zero overnight. Photography was something that had fallen to the wayside during the binge years. Now don't get me wrong, I still love my whisky, but I now enjoy spending time with the girls. The youngest (six) won't leave the house without her P&S stuffed in her pouch.
 
Rodchenko said:
Indeed. Prompted by comments on here, I have made a point of photographing my dad, which wasn't something I'd really done before.
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I'm lucky to have my mother as an example of how important the family photog is. She wasn't a very good photographer, but she was always there with her camera, catching the important events at every stage. We're all glad to have those pictures now! I hope all these iPhone pictures are being stored someplace today. They all keep asking why I shoot film...
 
When life is occasionally chucking sh*t at me I stop using my cameras. Of course those are probably the times I could most benefit from a quiet walk looking for beauty.
 
I found that my colostomy bag was a great conversation starter, it really relaxes (or terrifies) my portrait subjects depending on the mood I am trying to capture.

But otherwise navel gazing and whining about emotional BS doesn't help make better photos.
 
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