What's photography to you?
A fellow photographer, asked me this question. Why do I choose to jump into this hobby. And why not something else. And what do you hope to achieve?
I’m interested to know what ur answers might be.
For me.
Its about capturing the moment and the beauty, that I experienced, and share it to my family, and friends, and other people who enjoys them.
Why not something else. Owh well … I’m not too good with paintings (my mum does painting, my dad does photography). Not too good with digital works, vector, etc. I guess, I better off clicking off button, setting aperture and shutter speed hehehe … :P
Hope to achieve?
Personal satisfaction, and getting people to appreciate more about what’s happening around them.
And especially, appreciate it more about one’s eyes, that enable us to enjoy things that we see. It such a blessing :)
What about you?
I know this sound exclusively to photography as a medium. But RB consist of artists from various background.
But, changed that ‘photography’ to whatever medium of artworks you use to express yourself. Whether its on writing, vector, painting, etc . I’m very curious :)
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I’ve recently started studying photography, and I think, for me, that it is a much more immediate form of satisfaction. Take the photo, process it, and you have the product. Where as my writing can take years to produce the product that I want. (A novel, that is).
So, and this is just for me, I use photography as a creative outlet for the hard times in writing. And ‘cause I like it.
Anne van Alkemade
it’s about capturing a fleeting moment in time then passing that moment onto others in the hope they will relate, derive some pleasure or value from it.
Joe Mortelliti
I travel oz widely and for me each image I capture enables me to relive the experience of where we have been many times over…. bringing back to mind more of the experience than the image actually can show.
I enjoy creating the composition and working with light.
Family and friends are generally keen to see my latest work, so we get to share and relive in the telling of what was going on.
I have noted that people who buy my images have most often had some personal experience with the scene captured…and they derive pleasure from this which is great to see and experience.
kathleen
hi md81 thanks for adding me to your watchlist :-). I was thinking about this yesterday, because I was trying to differentiate between the images on my hard drive in an attempt to create some sort of oder… I was musing to myself about whether that photo goes in the photography folder or the image library folder. To a photographer there may seem no difference. But I am a graphic artist and have come from the training of commercial art, not photography or fine art, we’re supposed to rely on other artists or our own talent to provide us with the resources we need to create layouts and prints etc. /
The thing is, with the advent of photoshop and other such programs it has occurred to me since finding redbubble, that ‘photographers’ and ‘graphic artists’, do so many of the same things but the terminology is different. /
I am not a photographer, I take digital photos, I know the difference. I have an “old fashioned” camera with a big lens that I picked up second hand recently. with film, and batteries. But I have no idea what to do with it. /
Beyond me raving, my big question is this… If I take a digi photo and run filters over it, does that then make it graphic design? Because I see photographers here doing the same things in ‘treatments’ that I do in every day design land. If I alter the photo to appear something that it was not originally I believe this to be graphic art, but to run a blending layer or add texture or contrast to an existing image is that also photography? if that makes sense… in the traditional photography, images have always been altered with specific techniques anyhow, but why are photographers and graphic artists so demarcated in their ‘treatment’ of the images they deal with. Of course, not all graphic artists also take photos so it’s probably not really that important… hmmm thanks for the rant space. :-)
InfinityRain
For me, there was no choice, no decision between photography or something else. I had a passion for photography from the moment I picked up my first camera at around 11 years of age. It’s as much a part of me as the blood running through my veins and my camera is an extension of my arm. I love learning and growing each and every day.
It’s about sharing an emotion for me. I put a piece of myself in every single image I take or create. Sometimes they aren’t technically perfect but they show the emotions I am or was feeling at the time. I suppose it is a way of reaching out and sharing.
What I hope to achieve
My answer is always the same. Any photo that creates an emotion in the viewer, whether it is joy, sorrow, fear, loss, love, happiness, desolation. If they walk away and felt something, then I feel I have succeeded. But I also have goals within my photography. That I never ever stop learning. To be published. To have some of my work in a gallery (which is very close to coming true) and to have my portrait business which has already come true for several years now. And last but not least…to teach others the basics of photography, like the children in our area. The look of such excitement on their faces when they see what they’ve created is something I couldn’t possibly put to words, but being a part of that sets my soul soaring.
Jienn Heibloem
For me it is all about light…. we are all forms and vibration dancing in light in this life which is an illusion of light, a projection from the universal mind…...as a photographer I interpret the light and reflection, through the lens, as a painter or visual artist I create a vision through the craft, as a graphic designer I work with space, in all areas I become an artist using all the available resources to capture and respond to circumstance.
The internalisation of these responses transforms into an external manifestion in the form of art. Whatever happens after this is a bonus.
Vonnie Murfin
I just love the beauty all around us. I want to show people how pretty our world is. I just love capturing the moment. Even just for a moment, I like to freeze time and make it last a lifetime. I love to take everyday life and turn it into a work of arts.