Forum: Photography


Subject: Focus on discipline..trained, learned, part of you? why shoot what you do?

TomDart opened this issue on May 23, 2006 · 28 posts


Cynical posted Wed, 24 May 2006 at 11:30 AM

I have many, many interests.  I try to capture what it is that draws me to a certain subject.  I started out with landscapes and eventually moved into macro work.  I then started shooting night shots and timed exposures because I find them fascinating.   I am currently working with portraits and abstracts.  Surrealism and IR photography are other things that are on my agenda photographically.  There are many subjects that I work on privately until I think I have them mastered, and then I show them to a select audience to get feedback before displaying them publicly.

*I guess I need to decide what turns me on?  Not likely that is going to happen.  I don't always shoot what appeals to the masses, I shoot more for my own gratification. *

Do what feels good, if other people like it, that is an added bonus.  Best of luck to you in your endeavors.

The Cynical One

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.  -Marcel Duchamp