Losing Steam with Cameras

[Godfrey]

I’m losing steam for shooting..,

Have no Interest in shooting people with Masks
People suffering... I am sure there are lots of people shooting /documenting it

If anything shooting more abstract, some landscape
But not much , oh well

I hear ya on that, Helen. There's no joy to me in shooting people clad in masks and gloves *because they have to* ...! I'm not a photojournalist or documentarian...

I've been doing abstracts, geometries, scenes of the neighborhoods that I walk and cycle through. Perhaps with the intent of saying, "This is what we are, even while we endure the present calamity."

All things pass in time. Life will resume something approaching normalcy at some point. I'll be ready. 🙂

G

 

[jsrockit]

Have no Interest in shooting people with Masks
People suffering... I am sure there are lots of people shooting /documenting it

Yes, way too many people doing this...

I haven`t lost any steam, I am just waiting ... I`ll go back out when things are a little more normal. In the meantime... I`ve caught on editing my Santiago, Chile photos and made a website for my photos. Now, I have to return to my NYC photos and do a really hard edit of those images.

 

[carbo73]

Strange.

I seem to be losing steam when it comes to interest in cameras.

I have sold most of them and have not yet replaced them with any.

Just cannot seem to get as interested as I once was.

I am still making photos... but I am not really enjoying the tool.

Maybe I need to find something new or quirky to pursue (camera)

What gear gets you motivated?

Edit: Better maybe to say “What gear gets your excited?”

on the contrary, lacking space and money is the only thing that stops me to buying even more cameras, and I have quite a lot, by now. I have discovered that I love restoring them, at least the ones that only need small repairs. And I've been experimenting in odder formats and more archaic cameras, now trying to do wet plate

 

[carbo73]

Once you try a lot of different cameras, and there is not much more you want to try anymore, you tend to just use your favorites. For me, it is Fujifilm digital cameras.

But precisely it's the fun of using each type of camera depending on the theme. As I entered photography after doing a PhD in history I loved to use the camera in its more appropriate context. For example, when we visited Prague, I used a FED-2 as it was a Soviet camera. When looking for some abandoned WW2 German bunkers in Southern France, a Leica IIIb and a Rolleiflex Old Standard were excellent.

 

[farlymac]

on the contrary, lacking space and money is the only thing that stops me to buying even more cameras, and I have quite a lot, by now. I have discovered that I love restoring them, at least the ones that only need small repairs. And I've been experimenting in odder formats and more archaic cameras, now trying to do wet plate

Precisely my situation. The ones I want to get rid of are the SLR systems I won't be using, and could use a good home. I'll still keep quite a few around that will get limited use, like my wooden 4x5 pinhole camera, and a couple of the better medium format folders, things like that. They are the ones that make photography fun when you're not being serious.

PF