Finding Your Mojo: Dedicated Photo Excursions vs. Spontaneous Photography
Jan 16, 2022 17:59:16 #
risenhart wrote:
Before I retired my wife told me to get a hobby be... (show quote)
Your kids may not view your slickpic pics but I did......and I likes!!
Jan 16, 2022 18:03:33 #
Vernon Gibson
Loc: Madison, AL
billnikon wrote:
My street photography is primarily confined to parades and festivals. Below are images from a veteran's day parade.
Great shots! These are the kind I like to take too. I have been on some excursions doing landscape shots at some absolutely beautiful places but they left me unsatisfied. It's like, sure I can get some beautiful photographs but then it's like the place is so gorgeous ... how can anybody, even with just a cell phone, not get a great photograph? No, I get more satisfaction in taking great pictures of mundane subjects. Much more satisfaction. I'm not sure but I think that is what the OP is trying to say.
Jan 16, 2022 18:09:19 #
Jan 16, 2022 19:25:57 #
I have evolved to wildlife and urban street photography. COVID has let me stay outdoors looking for wildlife and street is gone for a while. I live in a really boring suburb for street but great for wildlife. My grandkids hate being photographed. I enter competitions and have placed in some. Life is good.
Jan 16, 2022 19:54:51 #
gshearron
Loc: Gahanna, Ohio
Your subject is an interesting one. I moved to a new area of town in July, just 15 short minutes from the previous neighborhood I lived in for the last 15 yrs, and I am having a VERY difficult time finding my mojo. Previously, I had a place I would go just 3 min. drive from my house, where I was in nature, could gaze upon a reservoir, see boaters, fishermen, kayakers in one swipe on occasion. Just 5 min. away, a small "uptown" area where I could always position myself on a corner or in a coffee shop window near the street, or just walk up and down the streets and have a target rich environment.
In my new neighborhood, there is NO uptown, and no similar place to go, to get my inspiration to go shooting each time. It seems the only places to shoot people is in the parking lots of grocery stores, big box stores and the like around here, which is disconcerting. I have already on SEVERAL occasions driven in up to a 20 mile radius in areas that are not my previous neighborhood, in an attempt to find new things to shoot and have so far been thwarted.
Because I love to shoot so much however, I will not stop, because I know I will find something and be able to create some personal projects. In fact, I think I see it now... is that it, my mojo coming down the street? I think it is! ....gotta go, I am picking up my Nikon D-750 and gonna shoot!
In my new neighborhood, there is NO uptown, and no similar place to go, to get my inspiration to go shooting each time. It seems the only places to shoot people is in the parking lots of grocery stores, big box stores and the like around here, which is disconcerting. I have already on SEVERAL occasions driven in up to a 20 mile radius in areas that are not my previous neighborhood, in an attempt to find new things to shoot and have so far been thwarted.
Because I love to shoot so much however, I will not stop, because I know I will find something and be able to create some personal projects. In fact, I think I see it now... is that it, my mojo coming down the street? I think it is! ....gotta go, I am picking up my Nikon D-750 and gonna shoot!
Jan 16, 2022 20:39:31 #
Jan 16, 2022 20:44:14 #
My camera comes out when I feel like trying to be creative....usually when I'm really effing depressed....I can usually 'wow' my cronies with my images...I've found that if I 'try', my images suffer...my best, IMHO, are spontaneous...
Jan 16, 2022 20:51:17 #
Jan 16, 2022 21:30:19 #
gshearron
Loc: Gahanna, Ohio
I REALLY like it. I bought it with the Nikon 24-120 zoom lens, so I am able to cover a lot of ground, now in full-frame and it seems to be a game changer IMHO. I recently took that lens off and threw on my Sigma 10-20mm (one of my favs to use on the D7000), and immediately was presented with the difference between DX and full frame coverage. As I looked thru the viewfinder, there was a smaller box outlined in the center of the view, showing me exactly what the coverage would be like in the final image. I was frankly surprised how much smaller it would have been, so I went ahead and shot the building with the 24-120. The D750 is weather sealed, has a more sturdy presence in my hand and the dynamic range it has is just plain exciting. You can read up on many of the other nice aspects of this bad boy, but if you are asking me, yeah, I am glad I made the purchase.
Jan 16, 2022 21:57:35 #
Mr Bill 2011
Loc: southern Indiana
I plan my trip, not my pictures. The pictures are there to record what I did on my trip.
Jan 16, 2022 22:26:46 #
Jan 17, 2022 00:59:17 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
TriX wrote:
If you haven’t read it, let me suggest “The Confederate in the Attic” - a very detailed read on reenacting and the past and present of all the locations of Civil War battles.
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz was an excellent book about the grip the Civil War still has on many folks such as the fellow who lives just a few miles from Appomattax but who has his whole life avoided going there because he can't bear the idea that this is where the Confederate war effort ended. The book is a great read.
Jan 17, 2022 01:13:51 #
Miamark
Loc: Florida
Hip Coyote wrote:
Just for discussion on a cold winter morn: br br ... (show quote)
I personally do not like to go with a group or take pictures of re-enactments . I like to walk around with my camera and a few lenses and take people pictures and street photographs. Before Covid my best photos were in third world countries but my travel is very limited now. My personal view, and I know that the vast majority will disagree, is that the worst thing that happened to photography (unless you are a commercial photographer) is digital cameras. I am going back to film. It is very important to me to carefully think about and compose each shot. I miss the discussions about the grain structure of tri-x shot at 200. My point is that to develop your craft and style, in my humble opinion, do not shoot a lot a pictures. Pick subjects that you personally are interested in, whether it is wildlife, people, landscape or whatever and really concentrate on composition. I also have seen plenty of violence and poverty but sometimes there is a story to be told to others that have not had that experience. In any event take pix of what is important to you and tell the story that you what others to see.
Have fun and be creative with your camera. Capture the moment. Best. M.
Jan 17, 2022 01:26:02 #
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Jan 17, 2022 03:35:30 #
John Hicks wrote:
I take photos of trains in the UK and I plan where I go and when do that I can know what is coming where the train is going etc.
But that is mine and a friend's choice.
But that is mine and a friend's choice.
I guess it's the only way to shoot the trains. You've got to be where you know they will (momentarily) be.
Can we see some of your pics?
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