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AnaHitori
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26 Oct 2016, 7:32 pm

I mostly take pictures of my dog or pretty scenery. Rarely people.


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26 Oct 2016, 7:37 pm

Yep to all of this. I'm a photographer and my style is candid and still life photography. I had no idea that was an autism thing.



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27 Oct 2016, 1:02 am

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Interesting. When I take photos with my children in it, I make sure to show their faces so that way when they get older, they might want to see old photographs of them and other people might want to see old pictures of them so they would want to know what they looked like when they were little. I also include the background because I find it so boring to only see people. The whole point of a photo is to see where they are at. When I was a kid, I mostly took photos of things when I had my own camera when we went on a summer trip. Now as a parent I want to make memories of my family so I include my children. When I went to London, I was taking movies of things than people and my mom got mad at me when I was filming a sign at the Burlington Arcade and then I used up the whole battery taking movies of Tower of London of me walking around. I got carried away. I never thought about autism there. Just my trip there and stuff I wanted to film I felt was important.

:lol: I would love to check out the Tower of London.


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27 Oct 2016, 1:54 am

I'm an avid photographer, but rarely take pictures of people and never of someone posing.



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27 Oct 2016, 2:38 pm

rats_and_cats wrote:
Yep to all of this. I'm a photographer and my style is candid and still life photography. I had no idea that was an autism thing.


I'm also a professional photographer (and before that, an avid enthusiast since high school), and shoot all kinds of stuff in my personal work: people (including amateur models), animals, landscape, still life (especially objets trouvé),food, macro, etc. But one of my favorite things to photograph are candid shots of people working - especially skilled crafts people. There's just something fascinating and honest about these kinds of photos. :)


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27 Oct 2016, 10:40 pm

I'm not quite professional yet but I'm entering my photos in contests and going to college to improve my craft. I hope to maybe open a studio and do pet photos. I've never tried objet trouve, but after looking it up it sounds really interesting!



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09 Feb 2018, 2:47 pm

I have taken pics of wallpaper, house plants, a rag, my wardrobe, lots of macro shots of plant and animal life and most of all, my cat. I also have a couple of pictures of similar objects lined up.


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09 Feb 2018, 5:12 pm

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I never really thought about it but I almost never take pictures of people. Almost all of my pictures are of things or animals. I remember, when I was young, I used to line up presents or things I found interesting and take pictures of them. Most people would probably find the majority of my photos extremely boring (and then wonder why I took them in the first place).


Well there is a form of art called still life, where you just arrange random objects and take a picture of it. I doubt it would be any way to make a living but I at least have found it visually appealing to look at.


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09 Feb 2018, 6:03 pm

Yes, I prefer to take photos of inanimate objects, patterns, natural landscapes, and even patterns in nature i.e., at times, my photographs clearly indicate that reconciliation between Abstract images, and actual, concrete (representational) images.

I've been told that I have preferences for images which can best be described as "visual puns."