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

[ChrisPlatt]

For most of the last ten years at two different jobs I have been forced to work nights.
Going in I told myself it could benefit my photography.
After all I'd have my days and all the good light.

A rational person or one who has worked full time at night for an extended time would know otherwise.
All I can think about when I quit work is my pillow and going horizontal...

Chris

 

[mfogiel]

I've noticed, that as I learn more about humanity, I am increasingly drawn to portraiture, as if I wanted to translate this knowledge into an emotion.


MF20141403 by mfogiel, on Flickr

 

[zauhar]

Airfrogusmc (you really want that for a screen name?), your annotated photo book is superb. That was a creative way to turn trauma into art. Thanks for being willing to post that.

Randy

 

[Lauffray]

Sure it does. I moved quite a bit in my life, every new city is a different world in itself. Sometimes I wonder if I would have stumbled into photography at all had I not moved so much or even at all.
Lately though, I've become a bit of a weekend photographer, I used to go to school downtown and have my camera with me all the time, but not since I started working full time. Job's good but it's really in the middle of nowhere.

This is in no way scientific, but I have a gut feeling I have more keepers per roll when there's melancholia in the air

+1 to that, same here.

 

[Prest_400]

Yes.

I am a student and this status without much income limits my budget. However, I've been saving lately and at the end I've plunged some funds to improve gear (Medium Format).
My schedule revolves around classes et al, but I'm having a really good time shooting everything involved in it. I do a lot of cellphone photography because of this.


Aside of this, I have relatives in SE Asia whom I visit in 4-6 year periods. I'd say that this is the reason why I got into photography and it grew on me. So, I get to plan a lot before any of these. So far I've never completely succeded, but I'm almost there in combinations of gear.

 

[furbs]

I lived in San Francisco and loved street photography with my M4. Now I live in the wild mountains of West Virginia and would love to get into LF nature photography. The trusty Rolleiflex is still my go-to for shots of people - some things change, some remain the same.

 

[airfrogusmc]

Airfrogusmc (you really want that for a screen name?), your annotated photo book is superb. That was a creative way to turn trauma into art. Thanks for being willing to post that.

Randy

Hi Randy yeah the screen name is what it is. I was a CH-46 crew chief while I was in and we affectionately referred to CH-46's as Phrogs so there ya have it...

And thanks. It was a very strange period of time for me. I was in a place where I felt like I couldn't go home. The cup photo shows that feeling I think and I wasn't sure who I was thus the stone face and and the shadow photo..

 

[Archiver]

@airfrogusmc - that book is remarkable. To be able to use art and photography to transform and work through a turbulent time in your life is absolutely laudable. Thank you for sharing it, as it would be a deeply personal thing.

Life events don't really change my photography much, apart from social events stepping up my output. Otherwise, I take photographs every day, regardless of what I'm doing. The subjects only vary by what happens in any given day.

Possible exceptions: breaking up with someone led me to revisit all of 'our' places and photograph them, from a third person perspective, and often from a first person perspective. If I hadn't captured what I saw at the time, I wanted to have a photographic simulacrum of what I would have seen. Working through those location in the order in which we first visited them was very therapeutic. I knew that I was over it when I felt like I didn't want to go back and shoot them any more.