I hereby vow that in 2010 I will stop photographing...

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...traffic cones
...empty chairs
...shallow DOF shots of berries and flowers
...bumper stickers
...road signs
...this one row of trees down the street from me
...mailboxes
...tombstones
...barns
...and piles of books lying around my house.

However, I reserve the right to continue judiciously photographing...

...my kids
...the roof corners of dilapidated houses backgrounded by overcast skies
...musical and camera equipment
...chickens
...myself, but NOT in a mirror or window
...light coming through trees
...dead things
...and storefronts.

Thank you.
 
mabelsound said:
...traffic cones only done it once or twice
...empty chairs I have a chair just for doing this...
...shallow DOF shots of berries and flowers will continue shooting flowers
...bumper stickers something I've thought of doing
...road signs okay
...this one row of trees down the street from me why stop???
...mailboxes another project I'd like to do
...tombstones still shooting them
...barns Love Barns
...and piles of books lying around my house. Books??

However, I reserve the right to continue judiciously photographing...

...my kids I have to...plus I want to
...the roof corners of dilapidated houses backgrounded by overcast skies ???
...musical and camera equipment Jazz Band season is coming up
...chickens WHAT???
...myself, but NOT in a mirror or window I see no need for this
...light coming through trees It's been done
...dead things and again I say...WHAT???
...and storefronts. Do empty car lots count???

Thank you.
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mabelsound said:
...traffic cones
...empty chairs
...shallow DOF shots of berries and flowers
...bumper stickers
...road signs
...this one row of trees down the street from me
...mailboxes
...tombstones
...barns
...and piles of books lying around my house.

However, I reserve the right to continue judiciously photographing...

...my kids
...the roof corners of dilapidated houses backgrounded by overcast skies
...musical and camera equipment
...chickens
...myself, but NOT in a mirror or window
...light coming through trees
...dead things
...and storefronts.

Thank you.
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When I first read the topic, I was curious...
You see, where I live, I have to take a road trip to find potential images. So, many times, I am really stretching my brain to come up with something -- anything! --. But, I like your "Do not Photograph List"... I must make one too, so I can more focused on things I want to Photograph.

Dead Things ??? What do you mean? Road-Kill, LOL....
Store Fronts... Some can be quite funny indeed.
 
I just am kind of lazy and tend to find certain things irresistible to photograph...but the results are just garbage. So I'm trying to shake it up a little.
 
I will not photograph any more Nintendo DSi cases in VNIR anymore.

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Everything else is fair game in any spectrum.

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Considering that, to the best of my knowledge, i've never photographed any of the items on your first list (ok, maybe a road sign here or there), i might actively seek to only photograph said items over the course of the year.. We all gotta have goals. :)
 
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But my son still photographs empty chairs..

But my son still photographs empty chairs..

Empty Chair....by 9 year old.
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Not a damn thing. I am going to continue to photograph anything and everything I want in 2010.

Film & developer is cheap. I can edit. And the more I shoot and edit, the more I learn. Although sometimes I admit when I see something, I remember that I have photographed it before and question if I can do it any better.
 
Bob Michaels said:
Not a damn thing. I am going to continue to photograph anything and everything I want in 2010.

Film & developer is cheap. I can edit. And the more I shoot and edit, the more I learn. Although sometimes I admit when I see something, I remember that I have photographed it before and question if I can do it any better.
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Dear Bob.

Seconded,

Cheers,

R.
 
Well--in my case, there's a chance the world will kind of sour for me. I was going out to the woodpile this morning, and as I approached it I thought, ah, I'm sick of that damned thing. Of course I'm not sick of firewood, I'm sick of looking at the woodpile, because I have photographed it so many times (usually as a lens-testing subject). Sometimes I feel I'm rendering the world a cliche (to me) by over-photographing it...so I'm thinking this year I should try to be more judicious.
 
I will not photograph or keep any photograph if it looks like it belongs on an insurance company calendar.
 
... whatever for testing exposure and developers. I want to stop that for life.

I'd like to photograph more risky situations... Last week, inside the metro there was a man from Maroc rolling a cigar with haschisch... He was standing, doing it as fast as he could because he was going to get down in the next station... He saw me with my camera on hand and looked at me every five seconds to check I wouldn't do it... I had oops that long Summicron 90, and I took the camera to my eye and focused and took it down, everybody looked at me and he did it to, but didn't see me, then he was doing the last step: pouring the powder over the tobacco... I wasn't sure if I should... Took my camera up and shot... He was two meters from me and didn't hear the shutter. As soon as I took the camera down he looked at me, and didn't understand my little happy smile. My heart was beating fast, and I enjoyed... I developed it and got it, Tri-X at 1250 one hour in Rodinal...
 
i'm gonna get flak for this but, missing from your list of things not to photograph should be pets. not sure why people think pets make good test subjects, is it real easy to focus furry animals with a rangefinder?
 
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