I can call myself a photographer
Oct 31, 2023 05:59:37 #
My skill level is a novice at best, but my brain is now a photographers brain. I find myself looking at every scene as if it were a photoraph. Flowers, insects, birds and wildlife. While looking at photographs I find myself thinking how I could repeat a similar shot. While driving the landscapes are a series of potential photos.
I am confined to a wheelchair so my perspective is a little different but my mind is that of a photographer maybe someday my skill level can match the shots in my brain.
Have a great day
Jerry
I am confined to a wheelchair so my perspective is a little different but my mind is that of a photographer maybe someday my skill level can match the shots in my brain.
Have a great day
Jerry
Oct 31, 2023 06:26:36 #
alawry
Loc: Timaru New Zealand
Good skills to develop. When you see a photo you like, think about why you like it. As you are finding it's more than getting the exposure correct and the details sharp although that helps. I have a friend with the artist's eye and sees stuff I overlook. It's frustrating but I only have to please myself. We're lucky these days once you've got the gear or a cheap hobby.
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Oct 31, 2023 08:43:13 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
JerryS4605 wrote:
My skill level is a novice at best, but my brain i... (show quote)
Many of my friends shoot from a wheelchair. My landscapes are shot using the same mindset as you. Sometimes though you get that perfect lighting coming through dark clouds and you just thank your luck that you had a camera in your hands to capture it.
Good luck and keep on shooting until the end.
Oct 31, 2023 09:04:24 #
Congratulations on learning an important skill to take great photographs. Often I am driving without a camera and see a scene that I think is filled with perfect light for a photograph. Usually I am in a hurry and cannot take the photo but it is important to me to have recognized the scene for what it is.
Dennis
Dennis
Oct 31, 2023 09:05:21 #
Oct 31, 2023 09:25:30 #
I am confined to a wheelchair so my perspective is a little different but my mind is that of a photographer maybe someday my skill level can match the shots in my brain.
Have a great day
Jerry[/quote]
Nice you're growing as a photographer. Perspective can be interesting at times and can set you apart from other shooters. Joseph Rodriguez was a photographer working as a cabbie in New York in the 70's and 80's. Most if not all the photos in one of his books were shot from the perspective of the drivers seat.
I work as a TV photojournalist. While obviously if shooting a standing interview I bring the camera up to eye level most of my other work is done about waist high. For hard news I like that perspective.
Just food for thought...
Terry
Have a great day
Jerry[/quote]
Nice you're growing as a photographer. Perspective can be interesting at times and can set you apart from other shooters. Joseph Rodriguez was a photographer working as a cabbie in New York in the 70's and 80's. Most if not all the photos in one of his books were shot from the perspective of the drivers seat.
I work as a TV photojournalist. While obviously if shooting a standing interview I bring the camera up to eye level most of my other work is done about waist high. For hard news I like that perspective.
Just food for thought...
Terry
Oct 31, 2023 09:44:42 #
Oct 31, 2023 09:54:56 #
I took pictures with my mind for a good number of years when I didn't have a camera (the 90's). But I couldn't call myself as photographer in that period of time because I didn't make any photograph. To be a photographer you don't have to make good photographs but you have to make photographs.
Oct 31, 2023 11:10:09 #
JerryS4605 wrote:
My skill level is a novice at best, but my brain i... (show quote)
Jerry, I too am in a wheelchair, I have been a photographer since the early 70s and in my mind I still compose pictures that I would love to shoot, but, alas, it is all in my mind. I don't get out much anymore, just when I
go out to a doctor's appointment or sit on the porch, DAMN old age, still have my cameras, dreaming some day I will go out and capture some photographic moments, stay positive my friend.
Oct 31, 2023 11:30:30 #
Oct 31, 2023 11:33:58 #
I have two grandchildren who are confined to wheelchairs, both with muscular dystrophy. They are still young and they have come to understand their disease and they seem to accept it. As children that they are their parents have been dedicated to them and they have enjoyed life as well as any normal child.
The fact that you use your camera from your wheelchair tells me a lot about your character. Photography requires good observation. When we begin to see the light and what it does to our subjects it is then that we begin to make great images. Ansel Adam had a picture of his subjects in his mind before squeezing the shutter. Your novice skill level very soon, through your observation of the subject, will produce outstanding images that I hope you will share with us.
There is something called experience that usually arrives late to us. Just keep on shooting.
The fact that you use your camera from your wheelchair tells me a lot about your character. Photography requires good observation. When we begin to see the light and what it does to our subjects it is then that we begin to make great images. Ansel Adam had a picture of his subjects in his mind before squeezing the shutter. Your novice skill level very soon, through your observation of the subject, will produce outstanding images that I hope you will share with us.
There is something called experience that usually arrives late to us. Just keep on shooting.
Oct 31, 2023 11:57:59 #
JerryS4605 wrote:
...maybe someday my skill level can match the shots in my brain....
Spotting potential shots and being able to visualise the shots is probably the most important aspect of photography. You're closer than you think.
Oct 31, 2023 12:15:21 #
camerapapi wrote:
I have two grandchildren who are confined to wheel... (show quote)
Well said. I think most people realize physical well being is not everything that makes us up as humans. We can excel at other things without physical wellness. Sometimes even surpass those who are perfect physical specimens in many ways. I wish your grandchildren and their parents the very best in life. May they continue to do exceptional things from their wheelchairs. God bless you all.
Dennis
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