Women say they dress for Women: Do you take photos for yourself?

Women say they dress for Women: Do you take photos for yourself?

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About half of the photos I take are for clients, so in a sense they are for other people, but usually I am shooting on assignment, so I have a certain amount of freedom to get pictures of whatever it is I'm covering for a client, and after I shoot what they are expecting, then I shoot images of how I want to represent whatever the subject is. And I let the client choose whichever images they would like to use.

Much of my personal photography centers around family, and my wife's large family, so then I am taking pictures to please my wife.😛

Best,
-Tim
 
I dress only for myself and I photograph the same way. I'm delighted when someone likes what I've done, but aside from posting more cat pix than I might usually (my cats have vocal and young fans and if I can make a kid's day happier, well post a cat photo I say), my main impulse in photography is something along the lines of "I'd like to show you something I think is cool to look at."
 
ferider said:
I found Marek's post very thoughtful, Raid. Not easy to write, and Marek is a great photographer, IMO.
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I love many of Marek's posted images here. I fully respect his views and his suggestions to me. I just prefer to take photos of scenes as they develop in front of me.
 
I take photographs only to answer the inner voice that wants to see a photograph, nothing else. Thankfully, people like what this inner voice has to say and I am paid full time to keep doing it.
 
Photography is a language. I can't conceive it as being spoken with no one to listen.
I do shoot to show my pictures (this is the theory. in practice the number of people intersted in my photography can be counted on the hand of Django Reinhart)
in this respect, these last months, I am really muling over Vivian Maier.
A photographer with no apparent need or will to show her work. Truely an enigma in my eyes.
 
sanmich said:
Photography is a language. I can't conceive it as being spoken with no one to listen.
I do shoot to show my pictures (this is the theory. in practice the number of people intersted in my photography can be counted on the hand of Django Reinhart)
in this respect, these last months, I am really muling over Vivian Maier.
A photographer with no apparent need or will to show her work. Truely an enigma in my eyes.
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Dear Michael,

Nicely phrased!

Cheers,

R.
 
Photographers should not put pictures in a box under their beds and be the only ones that see them. If they put film in their cameras it presupposes that they want to record what they see and show somebody else. Photography is about communication. - David Hurn, On Being a Photographer : A Practical Guide by David Hurn, Bill Jay , ISBN: 1888803061 , Page: 57


Everybody starts off with the most essential quality of a good photographer – honesty to himself. A mother taking pictures of a baby on a beach with a box Brownie has this honesty. No illusions, no pretensions. She is not trying to be arty or clever. She photographs what she likes, simply and directly. All photographers start off with this honesty but most unfortunately lose it as soon as they attempt to become a “better” photographer. Their integrity is swamped by gimmickry and the control of technique. Too often photographers aim for visual effect. Pure boredom. They should forget about being conscious of composition and attempt to be more conscious of feeling. Good photographs come from a photographer having a genuine feeling towards a subject and a desire to record it. If you photograph something that really interests you in a direct and simple way it is a fair bet that your pictures will be more significant. - David Hurn, Views on nudes by Bill Jay , ISBN: 0240507312 , Page: 43
 
I mainly shoot for myself. As a hobbyist who will never get near to 10,000 hours in photography, my photos are nothing special. I do it as a gear collector as well; it is really enjoyable to work with the metal masterpieces of past craftsmen, as an escape from the everyday. I do shoot some family pictures, you might say for them without their asking, so I guess partly to please me. I mean, anyway, that while a bevy of aunts and uncles and such are machine-gunning any toddler photo opp, mostly with phone cameras, I try to sneak in with a Rolleiflex or similar and get something more memorable and more contemplatively composed that maybe the toddlers' parents can cherish later. They SHOULD be wanting that, even if they don't know it. 🙂

--Dave
 
Argenticien said:
I mainly shoot for myself. As a hobbyist who will never get near to 10,000 hours in photography, my photos are nothing special. I do it as a gear collector as well; it is really enjoyable to work with the metal masterpieces of past craftsmen, as an escape from the everyday. I do shoot some family pictures, you might say for them without their asking, so I guess partly to please me. I mean, anyway, that while a bevy of aunts and uncles and such are machine-gunning any toddler photo opp, mostly with phone cameras, I try to sneak in with a Rolleiflex or similar and get something more memorable and more contemplatively composed that maybe the toddlers' parents can cherish later. They SHOULD be wanting that, even if they don't know it. 🙂

--Dave
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Dear Dave,

Who cares about 10,000 hours? This is a worthless rule of thumb for the intellectually or artistically challenged.

Cheers,

R.
 
Shooting photographs is a very personal thing for me. The things that I photograph come from my visual response to light and shapes and things that interests me. I think we all are affected by other photos and photographers but, I don't think I shoot images for them. Of course it's nice to get positive comments from others but, some of my photos don't receive any comments and I still think that a few of them are my among my best images. I have been making pictures for over 50 years and I am getting old enough that I do pretty much what I want to do with photography or about anything else for that matter. - jim
 
I take photos for myself, does not really matter to me if others see them. There is of course a part of my ego that wants others to see photos I'm very proud of, though. If I was ever to sell prints, let's be honest, that's more about me that it is my customers.
 
Roger Hicks said:
Dear Dave,

Who cares about 10,000 hours? This is a worthless rule of thumb for the intellectually or artistically challenged.

Cheers,

R.
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Roger, pleased to see another person treating this modern truism with the respect it deserves. The misapplication of a single piece of research into musical performance, which is fundamentally a proprioceptive learning process, to every other field of endeavour is utter baloney, but we are encouraged to trot it out at every instant.

Thank you.
 
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