projects?

Both. I like to work on personal projects, some are more defined some just ideas to be explored. But I like as well to take pictures of subject which interest me, which somehow give me a sort of emotion. Sometimes from these free snapshots comes the idea for a project which will be later studied, evaluated, defined and hopefully realized.
robert
 
Only projects, for all my life - there's no fronteers between my job and private life, no fronteers between disciplines : music, text, pictures, they're only technics (no matter the technic) only the concepts are important for me.
My "motor" : creative feeling + work in progress. Impossible to do a creative act disconnected from my projects.
 
Bob Michaels said:
Interesting well done book on a small Texas town by a friend, David Wharton who is a professor at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss. This was his PhD dissertation, later published. Much of the book is available on the website. Read the preface if nothing else.
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That is one labor of love for sure. 307 pages, wow.

And that's basically the point. The person who should enjoy most of the project is the documenter/photographer.

A book as a final result of a photo-project is a good and practical way to preserve and publish the work, but it's not mandatory, in my view.

David Plowden is another inspiration of mine.
 
Joe asked *many* good questions.

Observation:

#1 When Joe asked about bags, which lens, which camera to keep, etc. the responses would be 13 pages long by now.

#2 When Joe asked an excellent question about (arguably) the only thing that can improve our photography... barely two pages.
 
based on the comments here, like 'I only shoot projects' and 'projects is the (almost) the only thing that can improve your photography', can somebody please explain what a project in this context is? What is needed in your 'project description' to make it a project?
 
sig said:
based on the comments here, like 'I only shoot projects' and 'projects is the (almost) the only thing that can improve your photography', can somebody please explain what a project in this context is? What is needed in your 'project description' to make it a project?
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My definition is a group of photos that will end up being tightly edited and cohesive so that all images work together to deliver the message or emotion that the photographer desires. For me, a group of related images become a project when I realize what my message to the viewers will be.

I believe that if you do not have a predetermined message or emotion to convey, than all you have is a group of photos on a related theme.

Certainly others may have different thoughts. Those are just mine.
 
I wish I have the motivation and guts to follow through a project I thought of yesterday. I cant seem to stay on track with finishing a race!
 
Bob Michaels said:
My definition is a group of photos that will end up being tightly edited and cohesive so that all images work together to deliver the message or emotion that the photographer desires. For me, a group of related images become a project when I realize what my message to the viewers will be.

I believe that if you do not have a predetermined message or emotion to convey, than all you have is a group of photos on a related theme.

Certainly others may have different thoughts. Those are just mine.
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Thanks, I think you at least need to have certain goals and deliverables when you use the Project term. I never have projects, just a bunch of random, meaningless snap shots.
 
Well, I prefer to shoot in projects. But extensive projects need even more time than "ordinary" shooting. And that's my problem: not enough time. Work consumes most of it, the rest is there for the family.
 
Bob Michaels said:
My definition is a group of photos that will end up being tightly edited and cohesive so that all images work together to deliver the message or emotion that the photographer desires. For me, a group of related images become a project when I realize what my message to the viewers will be.
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It is not easy for me to explain it in English, but Bob did it so well that I can only say that is my idea of project as well. Beside shooting editing in order to have a visual coherence is the difficult part.
robert
 
Sometimes I take photos under one theme for some weeks.
But because my mundane work is organised in projects, most I'm happy just to shoot without thinking.
I have no ambitions with my private photographing, to exhibit or publish, its just for relaxing.
 
Mainly projects that started by happenstance, which developed from shooting subjects or themes that I found interesting at the time - and then on reflection realising that some of these were worth exploring further to produce a coherent collection. Or not!

However documenting family life was always something I had planned to do. That's getting more challenging the older my children get.
 
I take part in two ongoing B&W print exchanges, which help keep my eye on the ball. Monthly due dates. I try to share new images with the American group, photos that depict something about my region (American Southwest) with the UK group. Both are projects with their own engines. As a side note, I don't consider files/online to be photographs, just prints. Files are like negatives, I make them for prints.

Photographically (click!) and at the moment I'm trying to get myself back into a groove that's been rewarding but hard to keep up: going up to strangers, making a photo with their full awareness (looking into my lens), and making a letter sized print for them. This is important for me both as a photo challenge and a personal exercise. Actually, those are the same thing.
 
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Photographically (click!) and at the moment I'm trying to get myself back into a groove that's been rewarding but hard to keep up: going up to strangers, making a photo with their full awareness (looking into my lens), and making a letter sized print for them. This is important for me both as a photo challenge and a personal exercise. Actually, those are the same thing.
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I understand what this is as I am going through it myself. It can get really tough when things don't go our way. It also depends on the culture of the people your subjects are from.
 
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robert blu said:
It is not easy for me to explain it in English, but Bob did it so well that I can only say that is my idea of project as well. Beside shooting editing in order to have a visual coherence is the difficult part.
robert
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Me too. I like and need some project goals, after the initial idea.
Starting last year I have two projects ongoing: Some special kind of hiking and interesting city buildings. Since months these are my 90 % shots.

The big work comes afterwards, when the digital images are in a folder. Or the same for scans from a roll. And this is the part of the work which I don't like :(

Any advice for a software, which I only have to tell: THIS image is good enough to be published. Please process it nicely...
 
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