Trying to keep my photography habits in order. How about you?

[Ko.Fe.]

Around 2007 after getting of advanced digital P&S my obsession with photography has begun. IQ was suitable for small prints.

Shortly after it we purchased DSLR for reason to be able to take family pictures without hefty price tag for film, processing and printing.
And I breaked loose. I took 70K of frames in RAW within two years. Of everything. Added FF camera and acquired expensive lenses. The image quality is perfect (if light is good 😉.

But shortly after it I looked at film negatives and ventured with film as I never did before. Learned how to process it BW, C-41, ECN-2... Went through dozens of film cameras as well. And printing in darkroom.

Now, all of those pictures and gear, what to do? I went through common initial stage - image contests, trying to sell, thinking to be part time photog...
But to me it is just not worth it, because it is not photography time.

So, I haven't purchased any new gear for digital photography in years now.
I always let go to unused film gear and keeping it at low count numbers.

But I still like to take pictures. "To see how it looks like to be photographed", as per GW. Just not in thousands per month anymore and not of everything.
I'm taking mostly family pictures with our advanced digital equipment. And it brings satisfaction and sometime my wife likes it as well. 🙂 She will order to print few times per year and even shares some of it on FB.

I almost completely stopped sharing of digital images on forums, my blog and on Flickr. I'm not the one who is sharing family pictures often.
But now I have a funny feeling what I'm overflooding this forum with my film images. Where are few threads with my only pictures 😱

The idea of sharing only analog prints scans, not film scans is keep on growing on me... It is more appealing to me and I can't make as many prints as scans. 😀

How about you? Are you addicted with taking of pictures regularly? Do you keep them for "internal" use, sharing or sell it?

And If here is anyone who was taken from Flickr to Magnum I would like to hear from you as well!

Cheers, Ko.

 

[photomoof]

I take maybe 200 iPhone photos on trips, another few here and there. Have a few printed and framed by Adorama (great job by the way).

I used to sell photos when I was using film, but have not sold any digital photos, and I am no longer represented by a gallery. I became too involved with design, and teaching, to continue pursuing gallery sales.

I still make "serious" photos, but have no idea what to do with them, other than to back them up, and consider making vanity books on Blurb.

I still have film habits regarding quantity of negatives and slides, so only a few thousand a year.

Two years ago I ran into my dealer at an art fair, and she asked me to send her some work, but I never did. I continue to find selling and showing work tedious.

I do not post on Flickr.

 

[mfogiel]

I always carry a camera with me, and I try to keep my eyes open. Every now and then I get a photo idea and then I reach for the best tool I have and have a go at it.. Often this is in medium format. If I wanted to simplify everything to the bone, I would probably survive with just a Leica, a Nikon FM3A and a Rolleiflex. I only shoot b&w film- about 200 rolls a year, out of which less than 0.1% are family pictures. I try to make prints instead of sharing the people images on line. I am not on facebook or any other popular network.

 

[Rob-F]

I shoot Nikon, Leica and Hasselblad, and have recently experimented with a Mamiya 7II. At times I have bought a camera, sold it, and bought it back again when I realized it was a mistake to sell it. Now, I think I have just about arrived at the gear I do and don't want to own and use from here on out.

On an extended vacation, I am likely to shoot a total of close to 1000 pictures, counting both film and digital. I try to edit when I return home, throwing out anything I decide I don't like or want. Most of the shots I pitch out were ones I took while "overshooting," taking shots of things that didn't really excite me. I don't regret all the pictures I have; I only regret throwing a few out, and wish I still had, such as one of a rusty 50 gallon drum, and one of the dry cracked sand in the Nevada desert.

Photography has been an adventure throughout life.

 

[kxl]

I always have my iPhone 6-plus and my tablet with me and I wish had a mind's-eye towards capturing a photo opportunity when I'm just out and about, but I don't. Just too much going on in this old noggin.

My photography is more or less targeted -- I consider road trips, vacations and in fact any drive longer than 2 hours away from home a photo op. While I used to delight in taking photos of friends and family in various church and community events, I just grew tired of it at some point.

For those targeted photo ops, I primarily used my Nikon D800e's (when I feel like shooting digital) or my ZI's (when I feel like shooting film). Less often, I shoot my A7R, FM2N or F100.

I post photos on my website as well as books that I share with friends and family.