I'd love to hear why others like photography?
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For me it used to be mostly technical.. as I am a computer guy at heart... but now I get more immersed in what I shoot... The process of getting it from the point you shoot to the final edit you make on the image. My last few images I posted are from two or more years ago... images that I kept cause they looked good enough to keep, after my initial pass. Two years it took to get to final form.
That is why I asked cause I sometimes think I should delete old images... I only delete images now that are over exposed horribly (yes I do get alot of them).
Great photographers capture something deeper, outside of ourselves. something that cant be expressed in words.
I like black and white photography because it doesnt try to entice your eye with colour, it says something beyond the superficial.
I agree that a lot of colour photography is wonderful, it can be like music and capture your soul.
Theres something more magical about the way chemicals react on paper and create subtle contrasts that digital cannot emulate.
I use a digital camera but I can never get excited by the quality/tones/contrasts of the images. maybe i need a better camera.
Photography is such an important vehicle for communication and expression. I just plain see the world differently through the lens. I don't really know why but I am happiest behing a camera; whether it's film, digital, color or black and white, it doesn't matter.
Photography is one of life's great miracles and it thrills me.
Thanks for asking!
Making movies was a natural progression from early photography, and when you watch those old silent movies it takes you back to the seed of photographic magic.
It landed a few hundred yards from the spot where I was watering me horse Dudley, so me and ol' Dudley saunters over to the spot where the black case had fallen from the plane.
Dudley seemed a bit nervous - he's the suspicious type - so I dismount and walkies the last few yards and stoops down by the case which was one of those resilient multi-compartmented bags that a lot of photogs carry.
Okay, so I open what I later learned was a camera bag and guess what was inside...
Give up? It was money! Yeah the bag was full of those bundles of USD Hundreds you see in the flicks - anyway I use the money to leave home and buy some property in me travels and...
What was the question???
Oh, yeah, what drew me to photography - yeah well it's a good way to meet women ~:0)
Good post Markos.--Denny ;{
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