Unmet photographic needs

[kxl]

More time. More money.

 

[uhoh7]

The fastest way to make money in photography is to sell your gear.

Not at the moment, unless you have M6 and 75 Lux 😉 Otherwise you will be loosin it.

I did have an unmet "need" but I'm hoping the AI-P 500/4 enroute from Japan might take of it 🙂

There are more than few things I would like......but not really "needs"

 

[Hsg]

I can relate only to the need to make work.

Equipment is forever interesting [as machines] but has absolutely no interest to me as an unmet need -- since I cannot imagine how the need would be unmet, unless it has not been invented yet. Almost any modern camera will do.

Time, ideas, revelation, a platform to exhibit [galleries, publication?], maybe income, are unmet needs, always evolving.

I agree. I need to take photos and make new work even though I have never sold or exhibited my photos. Gear is not an issue for me. I'm happy with a P&S as long as I'm taking photos.


I need to take photos, otherwise I feel sort of lost and confused.

 

[Godfrey]

I agree. I need to take photos and make new work even though I have never sold or exhibited my photos. Gear is not an issue for me. I'm happy with a P&S as long as I'm taking photos.

I need to take photos, otherwise I feel sort of lost and confused.

I'm with you there. I'm finding that carrying Polaroid SX-70 with a pack of film in it is a great way to snap a photo a day, really focuses you on getting it right in the frame, etc, and gives you a print right there, in your hand. Very satisfying when I get it right. 🙂

G

 

[Hsg]

I'm with you there. I'm finding that carrying Polaroid SX-70 with a pack of film in it is a great way to snap a photo a day, really focuses you on getting it right in the frame, etc, and gives you a print right there, in your hand. Very satisfying when I get it right. 🙂

G

When I'm productive, I keep taking photos without looking at them and finally when I run out of steam I go back and start editing those photos.

 

[Godfrey]

When I'm productive, I keep taking photos without looking at them and finally when I run out of steam I go back and start editing those photos.

That's a little different. For me, the notion is that I'm always on the lookout to see photographs. The Polaroid applies a creative constraint in that a pack of film has eight shots, eight potentials, so I look for a moment that I really, really want to capture and have to get it right ... I don't have a second chance, I cannot edit it, etc. And while I can see an image within a few minutes, it's not fully 'baked' for a few hours, so the feedback is delayed. You must get it right by seeing into the future.

It's not a matter of productivity. When I want productivity, I do the same as you: start shooting and get lost in the subject with a digital or 35mm film camera, look and edit later.

Different workflow and visualization process, that's all, that address different photographic needs. 🙂

G

 

[photomoof]

For Hsg...

"before the rain" Yang Yongliang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq4yTo_tuc8&feature=share

"The Day of Perpetual Night" (show at the Venice Biennale 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXEjy4dxeVY&feature=share

 

[codester80]

Less "photographers" full of hot air.

 

[Hsg]

For Hsg...

"before the rain" Yang Yongliang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq4yTo_tuc8&feature=share

"The Day of Perpetual Night" (show at the Venice Biennale 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXEjy4dxeVY&feature=share

The second video reminded me of the opening scene in the movie Blade Runner.

The sound effects in the first video was very good.

Very interesting but also something very new. Thanks for the links.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

To my technical knowledge and my wants where are still Epson RD-1 and M8 as more less affordable digiRF cameras and nothing else. Both are crops and it turns me off because I like 50mm as 50mm, not a long tele. Used M9 is much more expensive and lottery with bad sensor according to RFF polls.
Cameras which are faking RF style aren't suitable for my style, I prefer it as true optical RF and VF.
So, my M4-2 meets my technical requirements and I like bw on wet prints.

But if I'll have spare $4K - Q then. 🙂
And still thinking of selling 100L lens and bunch of gear which isn't in use to get M8 and enjoy it under day light on hikes and walks with family. Can't push myself to take out DSLRs anymore for it.

 

[photomoof]

The second video reminded me of the opening scene in the movie Blade Runner.

The sound effects in the first video was very good.

Very interesting but also something very new. Thanks for the links.

There is amazing work coming out of China. While these are video, they have a feeling of being still images which change, rather than a film. They were shown very large in small rooms, so they were overwhelming.

 

[wwkw]

I don't have the world figured out on my own decidedly good authority just yet, and I'm not looking forward to that day coming anytime soon. I'll take a better 40mm because I'm not big on either side of just right, or cheap, half-assed versions of what's obvious to everyone else.

 

[Hsg]

There is amazing work coming out of China. While these are video, they have a feeling of being still images which change, rather than a film. They were shown very large in small rooms, so they were overwhelming.

No matter how successful a gallery show might be - how such a work performs on computer/tablet/phone screens is its final test.

Gallery success is measured in terms of how much money is made, and computer screen success is measured on how many people have viewed and 'liked' a work.

Which one is true success? Its hard to say.

 

[Roger Hicks]

No matter how successful a gallery show might be - how such a work performs on computer/tablet/phone screens is its final test.

Gallery success is measured in terms of how much money is made, and computer screen success is measured on how many people have viewed and 'liked' a work.

Which one is true success? Its hard to say.

If you really believe this, your view of photography is very different from most people who take photography as an art at all seriously.

Then again, you said that you also believe that no-one except family and friends will come to an exhibition unless it's touted on social media. I take it you've never been to Arles? Or indeed to anywhere there are galleries?

For that matter, you seem to believe that making money, or "likes" on social media, are the only measures of success in photography. What a miserable life you must lead if you believe that.

Cheers,

R.

 

[rbsinto]

When I begun to take street photographs, I needed a RF-like digital camera. At that time there were only two such cameras, Epson RD1 and Leica M8.

Fast forward to today and the market is full of RF-style digital cameras at very good prices... My photography needs are met.


Do you have any photography need(s) that are still unmet?

Yes.
I'm still searching for a photosite where I can post my street photography and actually get some feedback.

 

[DominikDUK]

If you really believe this, your view of photography is very different from most people who take photography as an art at all seriously.

Then again, you said that you also believe that no-one except family and friends will come to an exhibition unless it's touted on social media. I take it you've never been to Arles? Or indeed to anywhere there are galleries?

For that matter, you seem to believe that making money, or "likes" on social media, are the only measures of success in photography. What a miserable life you must lead if you believe that.

Cheers,

R.

+1 except for the miserable life part

 

[Spanik]

An affordable full-frame medium format. (at least 6x6 but if possible 6x9) that can be used like an oldfashioned film camera. No AF, diaphragm on the lens, no video, no live view, no back screen, no menus, no face recognision, . Doesn't need to be an absurd Mpix count, but a good high iso. Bonus points for Foveon.

 

[Roger Hicks]

+1 except for the miserable life part

Fair enough. "Constrained" is probably a better word.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Time.

Phil Forrest

 

[rhl-oregon]

I'm reminded of Jean Cocteau's spoof of the Monte Carlo spiel for closing bets (Faites vos jeux, is it?):

Faites vos voeux. Vos voeux sont fait. Rien n'y a plus.

Loosely translated, "Make your wishes. Your wishes are made. Nothing else matters."
If you win at Monte Carlo like 007, buy all the cameras you can shoot or fondle ;-). If not, how can you adjust your desires, talents and skills to what you do actually possess or can afford?

Distinguishing needs from desires is fundamental, whether what's wanted or wanting is material, artistic, spiritual or financial. It strikes me that not a few RFF posters would benefit from doing a triage of their desires and their actual needs (with all respect to the OP's fair question).