i just realized...

the gallery is fine for display of pics, but what if i wanted to start a discussion on our philosophies of shooting?

which i do...

joe
 
It would be nice to gain from the experience not only in technical matters (as you guys are the got to guys when it comes on info on a specific camera) but also on concepts in photography. This days I have been thing how street shooting(as I love to do) has changed over the years, It would be good to hear from you'll experience, a forum on photography would be great to discuss this matters. How bout on line workshops?
 
It's a lot easier to talk about gear.

Okay, about photography: I love photography. I love the creative outlet it provides for me. It's easier than drawing. (I get to use cool gear to do it. I love camera gear too, but this isn't about that.)

When I take a picture I consciously try to craft it, to put it together, to put things into the frame and to leave things out of the frame which don't add to the photograph. I try to pay close attention to the background and often change camera position to vary the background so it is sympathetic to the subject and not distracting.

I used to use slide film and take mainly slices of nature taypes of shots, not full landscapes but semi-closeups of interesting elements, including flowers, fences, ice. After years of doing that it got too easy and boring and I began to change my style. My children were just being born, so that provided me with new subject matter. Finances were tight so that dictated switching to B+W film and processing it myself. So now I prefer B+W pictures of people.
 
Ah,
But a few well chosen words can be worth a thousand pictures.
Looking at a photo you understand what "you" like/dislike/feel about it. But until the photographer who took the photo explains why/how he took it, you don't fully understand the photo.
JMHO.
 
backalley photo said:
the gallery is fine for display of pics, but what if i wanted to start a discussion on our philosophies of shooting?

which i do...

joe
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Is this because it's snowing in Edmonton and you're housebound? :D
The pressure is on now; I am going to actually have to come up with a philosophy, or attempt to BS my way through somethng -- give me a little time to work on it ;)
 
ok then!
here goes...

on a somewhat regular basis, i visit both our gallery and various blogs that appeal to me.
i have noticed that the photos i enjoy the most seem to be the simplest pics.
simple as in uncomplicated.
simple as in few elements in the photo.

simple as in a zen experience.
simple like a haiku poem.

this is what i strive for in theory but in practice too many of my photos are too complicated, have too many elements in them.

i resolve to renew my focus and to keep things simple...

comments welcome.
joe
 
Now wait just a damn minute. You guys take PICTURES!??!?!!?

I thought this was the collectors forum. My bad. :)
 
backalley photo said:
...that we don't have a forum to discuss photography.
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Oh, I would love to see something like that here, a forum to discuss such things as the creative, compositional, and artistic angles of photography.

I've always avoided things like camera clubs and such because I've always felt like the odd person out, most of the members were far more interested in seeing your camera than seeing your photos. :(

Notice they always call those clubs the CAMERA club, and not the PHOTOGRAPHY club!

My vote is YES, if I indeed have a vote. :)

it's mostly about gear.
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Ya know, as much as I gripe about people being soooo hung up on equipment, I'm sure glad I found a place where there are some real hardcore gear people who really know what they are talking about.

Just a couple days after I joined this forum I realized it was truly a rose among the thorns! I think a non-gear photo forum would only make a good thing better here! :)
 
It's an interesting idea, but I never quite know what to say when someone asks why I do photography or why I took a particular photo. I don't think I have the vocabulary for it. I'll eavesdrop for awhile ...

Gene
 
This seems to be my introduction to the RFF list. I've got to say, I'm so glad that you started this thread. I am coming back to photography after many years away because I think I need to regain the practice of looking at the world through the discrete time/space window which the camera imposes on experience.

I'm not so much into "capturing" what I see, as just noticing it, in a particular way. I have no idea why I take one picture and not another. What's great about a great shot is, to me, a mystery, and ought to stay that way. I just know that I havn't taken many of them.

I confess that I am a devoted gearhead, the third generation of photographers in my family. I think that cameras, all by themselves, are just cool.


Nice to be aboard.
 
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