Younger members
Dec 5, 2023 13:59:06 #
jerryc41 wrote:
The same applies to hot rods. Go to a car show featuring hot rods, and you'll see lots of old people. When I was a kid, it was the teenagers who modified their cars.
It’s still those same teenagers, only now they’re old.
Dec 5, 2023 14:02:50 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Do you think it is possible to attract younger members to UHH? Or is that a hopeless cause? What would it take?
Young people are attracted to fads, like tattoos, ripped jeans, tight fitting, and loose fitting clothes etc. So they probably would be attracted to B&W photography. But they don't last long. Onto the newest fad.
Dec 5, 2023 14:03:18 #
Smartphone photos by a younger person I know:
https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/new-page
His "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't" videos are hilarious.
https://youtu.be/Z314Njbw5k0?si=yOSPzp33jzGfee5W
https://youtu.be/xynXchvb7IQ?si=I_vs89yIrZ8Wcl8J
https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/new-page
His "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't" videos are hilarious.
https://youtu.be/Z314Njbw5k0?si=yOSPzp33jzGfee5W
https://youtu.be/xynXchvb7IQ?si=I_vs89yIrZ8Wcl8J
Dec 5, 2023 14:19:48 #
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Dec 5, 2023 14:33:20 #
srg wrote:
Young people are attracted to fads, like tattoos, ripped jeans, tight fitting, and loose fitting clothes etc. So they probably would be attracted to B&W photography. But they don't last long. Onto the newest fad.
Those darned kids these days! I tell ya!
Mozart seems to be the fad with these kids:
https://youtu.be/TLQpI6nULdg?si=V-dlId6iPYFoL38t
Dec 5, 2023 14:37:21 #
LOTS of young people, more than ever before, into photography - just check out YouTube, TickTock, Instagram, Facebook, etc. But those are all like the opposite of UHH. Why are more young people needed for UHH? Maybe they’ll be here when they’re old.
Dec 5, 2023 15:01:39 #
camerapapi wrote:
I cannot guess the future but I would say that a young person joining us could benefit from the experience of so many talented photographers in this forum. How to attract them to join us is another story.
Dec 5, 2023 15:06:47 #
timcc
Loc: Virginia
My parents' generation undoubtedly wrote many of us youngsters off for the clothes we wore, the length of our hair, our zeal for protests and expressing our different points of view. Just as with the current younger generations, our interests and fads came and went, frequently without the blessing of our parents. I'm sure they (the Great Generation) often looked upon us with a mixture of head-shaking and sadness that we did not more fully embrace their values, interests and perspectives.
No doubt the younger generations will continue to do what interests them rather than their elders, just as we did (and may still do today). If that means that such things as UHH forums have less appeal to them, so be it. They have their own lives to live, in a world vastly different from the one most of us grew up in.
No doubt the younger generations will continue to do what interests them rather than their elders, just as we did (and may still do today). If that means that such things as UHH forums have less appeal to them, so be it. They have their own lives to live, in a world vastly different from the one most of us grew up in.
Dec 5, 2023 15:10:02 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Do you think it is possible to attract younger members to UHH? Or is that a hopeless cause? What would it take?
Have you looked for any photography sites that cater to younger people?
Since they are not looking for you, you need to look outside of UHH for younger people. If you do make a connection and introduce them to UHH, you will be able to show them what they have to look forward to. Maybe in 30 or 40 years they will decide that UHH is where they want to be.
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Dec 5, 2023 15:29:29 #
jcboy3 wrote:
Not a chance. I can't imagine young people wanting to. And I doubt that older members would tolerate the changes needed to revamp this site and make it attractive to young people.
And suggestions would be......
Dec 5, 2023 15:29:36 #
Good question. I am 82 and have come to believe I am in the fat spot of the demographic for this site. I suppose the mysterious administrators know. I believe they collected our birth date and I only lie for security purposes a yearish from the actual date.
Upon reflection we are a reflection of our birth year as much as our family tree and where we lived during or formative years. Even though my earliest clear memories are post war I am certain the War influenced mylife greatly. Sadly our “leaders” seem to have forgotten that history.
My interest in photography stemmed from a combination of the engineer gene and the all the interesting knobs on my father’s Argus C2. I’m sure I bugged him unmercifully to tell me what they were all about. At any rate our first big vacation after the war was to the far away land of California and at Yosemite he handed me the camera directed me to take a photo of half dome including reading the f/ stop and shutter speed from the paper with the Kodachrome film, setting the knobs and focusing. I have that slide and after my mother died and I went through her archives I found the Conoco “trip tick” for that trip along with her log. It turned out we were there ten days berfore my 10th birthday in 1951. So that is when it started. In High School a few years latter I noticed a darkroom in a storage room and the Year Book staff was nearly all girls I became the yearbook photographer. My first and last pro assignment. And even though it was possible I did not encounter Ansel Adams nor would I have known who he was.
Upon reflection we are a reflection of our birth year as much as our family tree and where we lived during or formative years. Even though my earliest clear memories are post war I am certain the War influenced mylife greatly. Sadly our “leaders” seem to have forgotten that history.
My interest in photography stemmed from a combination of the engineer gene and the all the interesting knobs on my father’s Argus C2. I’m sure I bugged him unmercifully to tell me what they were all about. At any rate our first big vacation after the war was to the far away land of California and at Yosemite he handed me the camera directed me to take a photo of half dome including reading the f/ stop and shutter speed from the paper with the Kodachrome film, setting the knobs and focusing. I have that slide and after my mother died and I went through her archives I found the Conoco “trip tick” for that trip along with her log. It turned out we were there ten days berfore my 10th birthday in 1951. So that is when it started. In High School a few years latter I noticed a darkroom in a storage room and the Year Book staff was nearly all girls I became the yearbook photographer. My first and last pro assignment. And even though it was possible I did not encounter Ansel Adams nor would I have known who he was.
Dec 5, 2023 16:16:31 #
When visiting Paris in 2009 there were many persons both young and old using digital cameras of all types. Many were point and shoot types but there were numerous DSLR's represented. In Paris this last Oct. the only cameras I saw were in my hands and those of a couple of pros creating wedding albums. Quality beyond that of a phone camera is not important to most people. What they are interested in is a memory, a snippet in time not the image itself and that's ok. I've taken quite a few snippets myself.
Dec 5, 2023 16:20:21 #
Lagoonguy
Loc: New Smyrna Beach, FL
PhotoMono123 wrote:
Ah, the lament of specialty clubs — where are the ... (show quote)
Sounds familiar. 79.
Dec 5, 2023 16:38:12 #
Jeffcs wrote:
I was a photo club president with around 75 members in NJ I’d have to say average age around 50+
Jeffcs!
I was also the President of Park West Camera Club, Manhattan, NYC for 6-1/2 years and we have around 80 members but in our club, the average age is 60+ with one lady in her late 90s. Photography as a hobby is relatively expensive and ongoing. Being retired and drawing a pension sure helps as well as having leisure time, for trips and vacations.
Nowadays, there are so many avocations that compete with photography. And with business as it is, photography is not that attractive as a vocation!
Be well! Ed
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