ever get the feeling...

Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Never. Even if I photograph a place or person or thing I have photographed many times for many years, I am photographing in a different time and condition.
Click to expand...

Yep, I agree. When you feel like you are repeating yourself and are unhappy, it's time to take a break and reset. For three years, I have taken photos of the front of a same laundry place in my neighborhood (but of course, these aren't the only photos I make). Effectively the same photos, but I find new ways to frame and the light is always so different. It's a a good exercise that shows me that you can never make the same photo and there is always a reason for re-photographing things if you are not satisfied and they are rephotographable. Photography is either fun or it isn't. Your attitude is either good or bad. You don't questions these things when you are happy doing your photography and have a good attitude towards photography.
 
Over and over again

Over and over again

Yeh, definitely.
Look at my stuff and it is VERY repetitive in how it feels, maybe not that the pictures are all the same, but the general feeling is the same.
I have been struggling with this for the last year !
I can't seem to change my picture-making attitude.
 
joe, i get that feeling every time i try to shoot street, except worse: not only do i feel like i am shooting the same photo over and over again, i feel like i'm repeating the shots made by every street photographer who has ever lived, good, bad, or mediocre ...
 
I had that feeling in the past. I arrived at a point where I was no more interested in "repeating" the same photo. Now I try, or attempt to make something different each time I take photos. It is not easy, it means to change your habits and to take risks. And most of times it does not work but when it works it's great. Using low-fi gear like Holga and displaying in a different way is one of my exercise, like this one here. For years I have been "obsessed" with the exact technical details, now I'm learning to work on the edge, outside of the correct zone.
I think it is possible not to repeat the same photo ever taking photo of the same subject, which is an always interesting challenge...just my idea...
robert
 
Try not to.. but fall into the trap occasionally
When I look at some Flickr (mainly "modern" street) photostreams often those accounts have a generic fingerprint, tight crop portrait, people sitting, some grab shot of a random person walking.. very little thought about variation..
Seems very common and gets very repetitive viewing, but I guess most of those shooters don't consider it an issue.. I guees it is encourage by the relenless false praise of the "comment"
 
rodt16s said:
When I look at some Flickr (mainly "modern" street) photostreams often those accounts have a generic fingerprint, tight crop portrait, people sitting, some grab shot of a random person walking.. very little thought about variation...
Click to expand...

There are a lot of beginners out there who are trying to find their way and hoping to make something nice (and maybe not succeeding). There is nothing wrong with this. One does not have to look if they don't want to.

Buying a camera is easy, but correct framing, developing an eye, and finding content will never be. You have to work to get these and it takes time. Remember, what we see of the masters is a carefully edited version of a minute fraction of their total output. We don't see their bad photos most of the time nor their photos from when they started out.
 
nikon_sam said:
There's a lot of Truth in what Keith posted...
Stepping out of your Comfort Zone will do wonders in many aspects of your life...
Fear of Failure keeps us in our Comfort Zone...
Click to expand...

I agree, really need to challenge myself. Am in a bit of a rut at the moment.
 
Hi,

Every time I find an old camera I like going cheap I buy it and take a set of the same old pictures again. It's a useful benchmark.

Regards, David
 
nikon_sam said:
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Click to expand...

According to a recent article about creativity and mental illness: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19959565

"The dancers and photographers were also more likely to have bipolar disorder."

I find it interesting that dancers and photographers are put in the same category. Photographers quite often call their shooting a dance, and the way they move is like a dance.
 
In my opinion, anybody who invariably takes the same sort of shots of the same sort of scene in the same unvarying fashion , mostly in the same location , is in danger of being called a boring bast**d... (!)
 
dabick42 said:
In my opinion, anybody who invariably takes the same sort of shots of the same sort of scene in the same unvarying fashion , mostly in the same location , is in danger of being called a boring bast**d... (!)
Click to expand...

We're what we photograph.

If someone is a boring person in real life they will produce boring images no matter how much they vary the procedure.

Our only limitation is ourselves.
 
There was a guy I seem to remember reading about a few years ago who was spending his entire photographic lifetime capturing images of Mt. Fuji in Japan - nothing else. I'm not surprised it was taking him so long. Every time I've been in the area, it's been covered in cloud and I never have got a decent shot. I did spot the peak once from a car on the freeway and then it must have been 100 km away and I didn't have a 500mm lens in my bag at the time or anything close. As far as my work goes, I often go back to the same locale to shoot pictures when I'm evaluating a new lens. Even so, I never seem to get two images quite the same. Cheers all...TW
 
I think it's totally normal to feel this way from time to time. It's a creative catalyst toward trying something new. On the other hand, if you're trying to get at "something" with a camera, well, it takes repetition friends. Funny how just about everyone interpreted the question as a negative. Too many artists, too few photographers? I don't know.
 
kingqueenknave said:
I think it's totally normal to feel this way from time to time. It's a creative catalyst toward trying something new. On the other hand, if you're trying to get at "something" with a camera, well, it takes repetition friends. Funny how just about everyone interpreted the question as a negative. Too many artists, too few photographers? I don't know.
Click to expand...

Everyone wants to take the sort of photos that will make them happy and proud of their skills, that is basic human nature, effort must be rewarded with results.

Shooting for many years and yet not feeling any fulfillment or satisfaction from one's photos is a symptom of a larger problem, most likely a psychological one.
 
Exdsc said:
. . . . Shooting for many years and yet not feeling any fulfillment or satisfaction from one's photos is a symptom of a larger problem, most likely a psychological one.
Click to expand...

That's a heck of long way from the topic of being bored from time to time with your pictures, I think.
 
daveleo said:
That's a heck of long way from the topic of being bored from time to time with your pictures, I think.
Click to expand...

So the topic should stay at the first post and never move on from there?

Like taking the same pictures as one did in the beginning forever and ever...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom