Spouses Attitude Toward Photography

Spouses Attitude Toward Photography

  • Absolutely hate it

    Votes: 14 3.0%

  • Barely accepts it

    Votes: 32 6.8%

  • Doesn’t understand why you don’t have a real hobby like gardening, housework, or gossiping

    Votes: 14 3.0%

  • Wonder why you need more than one camera, while they want multiple items of their hobby

    Votes: 65 13.9%

  • Likes taking pictures, but loses interest it involves more than pressing a button

    Votes: 84 17.9%

  • Doesn’t understand why you want a manual focus film camera, when you can have digital

    Votes: 55 11.8%

  • Claims to like photography but doesn’t care to learn about fundamental things like depth of field

    Votes: 45 9.6%

  • Gets annoyed at your hobby, but then complains about not having enough pictures of the family

    Votes: 40 8.5%

  • Wonders why their flash pictures at a concert don’t turn out, but won’t listen to your explanation

    Votes: 22 4.7%

  • Is happy you have a hobby and supports your interest in it

    Votes: 241 51.5%

  • He/she has to like it – it pays the bills

    Votes: 17 3.6%

  • As much of, or more of a shutterbug than me!

    Votes: 39 8.3%
  • Total voters
    468
My significant other initially complained about the time and money I spend in photography. I asked her would She rather me spend money on cameras, hold my cameras and shoot my cameras or would she rather me spend money, hold and shoot women…


She paid for half of my first Leica.​
 
I voted:
Doesn’t understand why you want a manual focus film camera, when you can have digital

There's more though. She tolerates my photography talk even though she understands ZIP!!! I might as well be saying: Blah Blah lens..Blah Blah Blah contrast....😀

But, at least I can buy stuff as needed without a objection, She does understand it is a hobby, and as such, things are added to further the hobby.

Although, she is pretty good at giving options on post processed images. She has a good eye 🙂
 
Wife started funding my future M9

Wife started funding my future M9

Yes; I got about a 30th worth of an M9 for my birthday, placed on an account called "M9". I think that´s a pretty great show of Good Will towards my hobby.

There´s a catch, though. She wants a horse...
 
Mine's furious...just look at the face she puts up whever I as much as touch a camera!

http://www.mindovermadness.org//pic...ions_06.02.2010/expressions_06.02.2010_11.jpg

Actually, she's got a master in computer science and is a Photoshop artist and (3D) designer/modeller. Our taste in processing and style differ a lot, but she's got a keen eye and a fantastic mind. Definitely supportive, but she just don't get old cameras 😀

Mac
 
She only hates it when I process film in the bathroom. If it gets ugly I might just have to force myself to shoot color, film of course.
 
Well, I am one of those who voted "..hates it!". But that has to to more with my personality, the not cured GAS which comes to me sometimes, the time I spend with my hobby, the time I spend here on RFF ("... sitting in front of the PC again...!!" and that she can't walk through landscape and cities without held up by me taking pictures - and that I allways vote for the option (well. you can guess which one I choose ;-)): "Either you come with me and you leave that camera in your pocket or we seperate and you spend the time with your camera and I do things by myself...". Must say that she is a hard working person, who takes things and responsibilities very serious and doesn't have a hobby (besides reading and going to the theatre once in a while). May be she choosed me because I am so different.....;-)
 
Funny poll 🙂 My spouse is a professional photographer and artist by trade, I'm "only" a hobbyist whose main income comes from photographs.

She doesn't care about the tech side of things, not that she couldn't take amazing shots with MF gear we have (she does btw) but most of the time she likes that things happen fast. In the end, photos are only a starting point in her work (illustrations, digital graphics and so forth and some fantasy photography) so she likes to take them with digital slr. I'm more tech oriented and like to work old school with film, but have also migrated into more and more digital mainly since it seems to get the results I want quicker then film work.

So about this poll, she supports my "hobby" and I support her profession. When she needs to know how things work she asks me, when I want a second opinion, I ask her.
 
I´ve been married two times, and both ex wives did as much a they could to take me away from my then hobby. At the time I met my girlfriend the first time during March 2005, I said: I´m an amateur photographer whose main interest is making good pictures with film cameras. If possible, I want to make my living on photography so my main effort will be towards this target. Just take it or leave it.
She accepted my conditions, but doesn´t like photography too much. If she didn´t accept, we won´t be together today.

Ernesto
 
Mine is glad I have a hobby ...even though it means the floor of a small room is covered in cameras I'm trying to repair. She suggested I buy a freezer of my own to store film once I started taking up a chunk of ours. She doesn't mind me buying a bunch of cheap cameras as long as I make use of them.

My wife likes taking shots with her digital camera but also has dabbled with a Polaroid 450 recently when I've gone out with a Rolleicord. She developed some sort of attachment to the TLR (though she has almost no exerience using one) and wants one of her own. I'm working on repairing a Yashica EM for her as we speak, though by the time I'm done it probably would have been more cost effective to buy one.

Her two complaint so far are:

- The sheer number of packages I get in the mail. I've been on a buying spree this year picking up a bunch of cheaper items, old film, etc. I think she misses getting packages addressed to her. Discovering RFF and Apug this year hasn't helped.
- My inability to pick shots to frame and hang around the house. I'm not good at picking work to display.

As for money spent... I'm too cheap to buy nice gear. My biggest buys have been an F4s kit (which included several lenses, a flash, etc) and a Bronica SQ-A. I can't bring myself to buy a Leica/D700/other expensive or modern gear.

Picking up $15 rangefinders makes the GAS more palatable. 🙂
 
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Girlfriend doesn't care or mind the photography.
The wife on the other hand....I usually buy a lens and then slowly let her see it until she thinks "he must have had that lens for awhile now"
 
My wife uses "but what about your cameras?" every time I ask her about that new article of clothing from some super expensive brand. she doesn't know the difference between my old Nikon, my very old Leica, or the really old (but new to me) folding 6X9 Ikonta. And now I will have to plagiarize pesphoto's line above: My photography she loves, its me she doesn't like...
 
Frances is currently at a concert with the M8 and her 50mm Summarit. I'm at home trying to write an article for a cookery magazine.

Displacement activity here on the forum...

Cheers

R.
 
Our 9th anniversary was Thursday. Wednesday night, my wife decided she wanted to get me something. I downplayed it until she started reading entries from Freestyle, threatening to order something random if I didn't give her a suggestion.

I caved and now have 50mm lens Bronica SQ lens coming from KEH. This will finally make the SQ-A get the use it deserves; with only an 80mm, it didn't have enough advantages over a TLR for me to use it often.

As an aside, she's been interested in the Rolleicord since I picked it up. She just got back from a road trip, her first time out with it and the first time using a light meter/dealing with manual exposure/etc. I think she is hooked. 🙂
 
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