it's all crap!

[back alley]

in a funk!

shooting but hating everything i come up with!

just got a pretty good deal on a fuji x100 that i will pick up tomorrow...not sure why though...

need to take a break and clear my mind and hope that i can 'see' again soon!

till then i think i'll just hang out here and whine for a bit!!

 

[icebear]

Sorry to hear Joe, sometimes this happens. I usually don't take any photos when this mood strikes.
It comes, it goes as well. Don't worry. Clean your equipment, vaccum the bags.
Tomorrow is another day. Cheers & good night.

 

[back alley]

i bought some plastic shelving/boxes and finally organized my gear/photo junk...that felt good...

 

[Paulbe]

Joe--not true!
All your stuff is excellent--
Take a break and get some more Tri-X...
Paul

 

[rwintle]

icebear's advice is good, and that tidying up you did certainly would be therapeutic for me.

Or... do the contrary, load up, saddle up, get out of the house and shoot your way out of it. 😀

Full of good advice, me. 😉

 

[jarski]

Take a break from both photography and net?

 

[gb hill]

I got in a funk too awhile back. Now that I want to get out & shoot I can't quite yet. I don't want to rush out & do anything to hurt my surgery I had from a couple of weeks ago. This Saturday starts the fall furniture market & I always enjoy shooting that.

 

[zauhar]

Joe, whine all you want ....

I have been totally swamped with work, have not done anything but develop some film in the last two weeks. I wanna whine too.

You shoot much at night ? Maybe try that for fresh perspective .

Randy

 

[zauhar]

I got in a funk too awhile back. Now that I want to get out & shoot I can't quite yet. I don't want to rush out & do anything to hurt my surgery I had from a couple of weeks ago. This Saturday starts the fall furniture market & I always enjoy shooting that.

Greg, so sorry ! Anytime I want to whine like joe, I see that someone has bigger complaints than me.

Hope you are back in shape soon!

Randy

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Or... settle in with a good drink and pull together a bunch of your favorite images and make a Blurb book out of them. 🙂

 

[gb hill]

Greg, so sorry ! Anytime I want to whine like joe, I see that someone has bigger complaints than me.

Hope you are back in shape soon!

Randy

Thank you Randy. I had a hernia surgery & am recovering nicely. Just not as fast as I want.😉

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Joe, another mood changer I use, in this age of electronic everything, is to go out with one lens and the camera set up completely in manual. Go by Sunny 16, or take a light meter with you. And set the camera to manual focus. Getting back to basics like this often pulls me up out of the 'funk'.

 

[back alley]

Or... settle in with a good drink and pull together a bunch of your favorite images and make a Blurb book out of them. 🙂

sipping on a neocitron atm...

 

[back alley]

i know it will pass, always does...sometimes i get on my own case for not having any real talent...usually when i fall out of love with gear!

 

[Red Robin]

Joe, for me a major change can make the difference. I don't use digital but going to a different kind of system can really do the trick. Rangefinder to SLR or fixed lens. landscapes to portraits or perhaps macro. Buy an old antique body and lens fix it up and get good with it. Enjoy thats why we're here.

 

[csxcnj]

Joe, sometimes when I'm going out looking for photos nothing seems to be there. Sometimes (a lot actually) when I was out sans camera I saw things that made me say "damn why aren't I carrying a camera!"

So now I just try to have a camera with me all the time. Some days I'm out there with a photographic purpose in mind. But on the days I'm just out and something strikes me I'm ready. Just always having a camera with me seems to have made me relax more and not worry about seeing something worth a press of the shutter.

Maybe I'm rambling but hopefully you get what I mean.

A correlary (sp): the harder you try to find love the harder it is to find. It has to find you...and hopefully you're ready to recognise it...Or take its picture 😀

cheers, Bob

 

[redisburning]

I definitely feel like the worst photographer in the world tonight.

tomorrow I will remember that no, I am not. and that I can always improve.

well, or at least buy something new rofl.

 

[back alley]

improving would be nice...

 

[thegman]

improving would be nice...

Joe, in all seriousness, do you think you're making any effort to improve? The only reason I say that is that I recently got back a load of rolls from a recent trip, I was disappointed with the shots. Hardly any keepers from 15 rolls.

Then I asked myself, did the low quality of my output reflect the amount of effort I put in? Unquestionably, yes, I was lazy and unimaginative. Quite simply, I got out what I put in.

 

[bwcolor]

I remember one of the lowest times in my life and I decided to distract myself by looking for a new car. I went into a dealership and recognized the sales person as a rock star from the seventies. I asked him why he was selling cars and he said that last year his wife died and it really crushed him. I could understand that. Then both of his daughters died in car accidents... His whole family gone in one year. I never told him, but I left feeling ashamed for being so self-absorbed and unappreciative of what I have. I must regularly remind myself of this.. some twenty years later.