Photographers? how it affects your shooting?

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Ok, I will do this just for you Padium. It might have to wait a little while, as I have a lot going on between work and auditions and things at the moment though (I should NOT be on WP right now as I have literally 20 minutes to swim my 50 laps, eat breakfast, get dressed, and be out the door), I hope this is ok.

20 minutes is not enough time for all of that, good luck.

I love to photograph plants and animals and objects, probably only 10-20 percent of my 1000 digital photos are of people. I dont like too much technical stuff I just like to take the picture. I like getting the right moment.

BTW the avatar is not one of my photos. I found it online. Nice though.

I studied photography for the first year of my A-levels. I loved it, except I hated doing the bookwork/planning part of the subject, meaning that I got a low final mark. I just didn't see the point in it, as my photography tends to be spontaneous. I only took a couple of pictures of people as my interest tends to be in abandoned buildings and the like.

I now have a DSLR and mainly use it to document family celebrations.

If you don't do something you view as stupid you lose marks, my profs taught me that very quickly, and I am glad I do all the work involved in something regardless of how stupid it may seem.

I didn't see it as stupid, rather it was a combination of lack of motivation and severe procrastination that led me to have a pretty bare book. But yes, if I was to do it again I would definately try to put more planning into the planning!

I remember when my dad tried to show me how to work his 20 year old ZENIT 12XP slr. All the information went over my 8 year old head, which was usually what happened back then. So, for my 10th birthday he bought me a point and shoot film camera. I still have it. It's a RICOH. I loved dogs back then so all I took photos of was my silky/terrier cross and my sisters Jack Russel. I sometimes took photos of the cats too.
Eight years later I took my dad's new film camera (a Pentax) to an Alexisonfire gig my 'friends' took me to. I remember sitting on a speaker, swinging my legs while taking photos of the bands. When The Hot Lies (soon to be good friends) played I worked out how to use the zoom.
Fast forward a bit. In the years 2006 and 2007 I was regularly taking photos of bands, using a Canon digital slr now. I started to take photos for a music website, which sent me to a lot of big gigs for free and I got access to some gigs people off the street couldn't get access to. I got really obsessed with it, so much that it was the only thing I thought about at a gig; not people, not drinking alcohol - just taking enough photos to please my editor so they can send me to next next big gig.
Then I started to get stressed out at gigs and annoyed with my editor for giving me shorter and shorter deadlines. And then I was going to Sydney more, because I was dating someone there, so I stopped going to gigs. I tried to get back into taking photos when that relationship was at an end (my boyfriend like all people pressured me into taking photos of bands), but all I could think of was the stress. The festivals were the worst. The last festival I shot I felt like smashing my $3000 camera on the ground. This was all before my diagnosis. I had no idea I was having sensory issues as well as having a meltdown after almost every gig. I thought it was anxiety, but I can now tell the difference.
Then I was diagnosed and taking photos at a gig became nearly impossible. The second last gig I was out was overcrowded with teenagers and the sound of the bands was too loud to even the photographers. For me it was painful. This is when I knew it was over. I still went to take photos of my ex's band, which resulted in my worst meltdown yet, but the photos still look fine.
I had a photo exhibit where people would praise me for my great band photos and that I really shouldn't give up. I felt like I was suffocating in there.

I like close-up and very sharp photos. I'm both very technical and artistic. Hiding behind a camera was a good way to calm nerves at gigs. I still want to take photos but in a more relaxed environment. I like my extreme close-up photography, so I might invest in a macro lens.
Oh and I sort of know how to work the ZENIT 12XP now. I want to start doing film, not because it's a fad for my friends at the moment but the prints in a photo exhibit look better than digital prints.

While film and optics cameras (I will call them analogue) are currently superior to digitals for some aspects of photography, digitals are quickly catching up. The best camera in the world right now is something crazy that works with some sort of scanning laser, and the only downside to it is that it takes several minutes to take a picture. From 10m away, you could zoom in to see the individual brushstrokes on the mona lisa. It was a several 1000 megapixal camera or something like that. This was something a couple of my techie friends were talking about seeing on the discovery channel, and I haven't looked it up to confirm it, so I can't gaurentee that it is true. Digital cameras will however at some point have resolutions so high that they will offer superior zooming after the photo is taken to make it not woth using an analogue camera for most things.

It wasn't. I had to miss my swim.

Now I need to get ready to go to brisbane.

I consider myself to be an amateur photographer. I currently only have a Powershot A720IS point-and-shoot, but it does have a manual mode and I know how to use it (I've taken nearly 20,000 shots with it). I'm looking to buy a nice SLR, probably a Canon EOS. I did have a Rebel XT, but it died on me not long after I got it (I ended up getting a refund since it was a discontinued item).

I like to photograph stuff at amusement parks and I like to document stuff. I don't tend to do much in people shots (all those NT's and their nonverbal communication) Being face-blind doesn't help either.

I post a lot of my stuff in my Coppermine gallery at http://www.extremerct.com/Gallery/

I'm blown away by the responses,so much talent here,mostly way beyond mine-
and want to take some time to respond to each post.Thank you everyone.

BUT this morning,started typing away,only to find my keyboard had exchanged some keys,for others..
Can you imagine ? It makes writing AYTHING ready harf,I mean really hard..and also explains some problems I had in the chat room,last night....no wonder.

I'll be back when my fs become fs again,etc....

Post a photo,if you feel like it...
This is not one of my best,but felt good,looking at it.





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This is the most famous band I took photos of, Incubus:

There were 11 other photographers in the pit, so it was impossible to get a good shot.

Awesome ! !!

-really cool shot,considering the conditions

I'm listening to Anna Molly,right now....

and my computer is very sick,I think....scanning.

This was for a musician friend-hope he uses it on his first album...acoustic.


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That's very cool. Looks like an album cover.

I took photos for an (at the time) upcoming artist, but they decided to use other photos. That record company was a bit sketchy. One of the bands also asked me to take promos but never did set a date, and they got another photographer. These guys were good friends, now I don't speak to them.

Thanks...reminds me of old days in London-a band i knew got a mag. cover shoot,very happy,until 2 weeks later,the mag turns out to be for gay guys...and the band was well $*&^ed -as they were all straight. !

Not that there is anything wrong with being gay..they were hoping to attract women....turns out they were set up by local rival band...

I only have a small camera,right now,so have limitations,-saving for DSLR..thought about a XSi,but they seem kinda limited,too,maybe not strong enough,woulf love to go frame full sensor,seeing so,me great deals on 2nd Canon 5D 1s,etc...

Any suggestions ?

Been taking photos for many years, but always found developing costs prohibitive back in the days of film. Digital has changed all that though, as it's now possible to take hundreds of photos in a day. I do like my Canon 300d, and I am hoping to add a new body and some more lenses in time.

I think the way I see things does effect my choice of subject and my compositional choices, I tend to lean towards big spacious landscapes, and tend to try and exclude people, as I don't really have a full grasp on photographing people. Although having said that I admire the abstract, and I love the way someone like Andy Goldsworthy assembles found objects into compositions. I admire that and the way Chinese artists use minimal composition to emphasise the subject.

I have to say I am awe of the talent of some of the people here, makes my own contributions seem far more modest. A few of them here, http://s87.photobucket.com/albums/k124/ ... 0wildlife/

john