have you slowed down photographically ?

ntenny · Jul 19, 2013

I've been moving up in formats for the last couple of years, so while the number of shutter firings has gone down, I think my total area of film exposed has stayed fairly constant. Ceasing to travel a lot for work changed the way I shoot drastically; I used to have fairly short windows in interesting places and needed to make the best use of them, with portable equipment. Now I'm much more likely to go out on a dedicated "photo safari" with a backpack full of large format.

-NT

ToddB · Jul 19, 2013

Sped up.. Since I picked up film gear again, I've been to events that I normally would ignore. Love it.

Todd

cliveh · Jul 19, 2013

I think we all speed up and slow down according to how we feel. The myriad of possibilities for visual recording is almost infinite, that it is always good to rise to a challenge. Go to the most boring place you can think of and really look as a photographic medium may record. The variations for composition, timing, differential focus and lighting ratios (to name a few) has millions of variations. Where do we start?

DannL · Jul 19, 2013

I recently switched to shooting sheet-film only, and the increase in productivity has been amazing.

Tom1956 · Jul 19, 2013

There isn't bound to be any photography for me today, tomorrow, the next day or next week. It is 90 degrees, but with a humidity of 6000%. You can't walk out the door and stand for 1 minute before you're wringing wet, with mosquitoes, gnats, and no-see-ems eating you alive. Practically need an oxygen tank. Miserable. No way.

Tom1956 · Jul 19, 2013

Didn't mention the fire ants.

ArtO · Jul 19, 2013

Tom1956 said:
Didn't mention the fire ants.

Did you take pictures of the fireants?

Mine has fallen off to almost zero and I have a number of new to me cameras to test. Family health issues have just kept me close to home.

ajmiller · Jul 19, 2013

Definitely slowed down here. Moved to a rural area from the city two years ago, spent a year renovating our new (ancient) house, which is in the final stages. Set up and running a B&B business to support our other ventures. Just got round to setting up the darkroom. We did all this so we could concentrate on our chosen lifestyle - me photography, my wife upholstery. And we are getting there though it's a drag not taking pictures. I work best in projects and I haven't been in the flow so consequently just taking snaps really which I find very unsatisfying. Still, it will happen and this period will pass.

Dinesh · Jul 19, 2013

Michael R 1974 said:
I've always been slow

It's the poutine!

Tom1956 · Jul 19, 2013

Dinesh said:
It's the poutine!

Had to look up what that was. Yuk.

StoneNYC · Jul 19, 2013

Only in color because the cost of developer and it's short lasting nature means I have to do about 20-30 rolls all at once.

Then scan it all before the dust gets to it...

So I've not done processing lately in color, but B&W every week.

~Stone | Sent w/ iPhone using Tapatalk

mrred · Jul 19, 2013

I've been cheating and spending more time with my radios. At least it's been getting me out and climbing trees... perhaps I should combine the hobbies and carry a camera up there too!

George Papantoniou · Jul 20, 2013

Yes.

Recession, depression, gas prices, film and paper prices.

Furthermore, most of my colleagues and friends don't shoot film (or any thing) anymore so there's a lack of stimulation.

Trying to fight it. Hope it works.

waynecrider · Jul 20, 2013

Shooting season for me in S. Fla. starts in November and goes thru April. That's a folk music performance season I shoot. Otherwise it's dodge the thunderstorms and drench yourself in DEET if you want to go outside in the summer. The last I actually shot a bunch of landscapes was in AZ two winters ago.

Years ago as in probably 10-12 years back I use to drive the Arizona state when visiting the parental units looking for pictures. A 200 mile trip was common and sometimes I'd stay overnight in Sedona with a friend and shoot for a few days there.

Mainecoonmaniac · Jul 20, 2013

Life's obligations gets in the way of my photography.

John_Nikon_F · Jul 20, 2013

Too much gear, body-wise. I find if I have too many cameras lying around, it can be a daunting task to figure out what I want to shoot with. So, I'm culling duplicates, in favor of having one example of a certain camera. Plus, I probably won't accumulate every single model of the Nikon Nikkormat series or the FM/FE series, etc.

Once I get rid of the F3HP, I'll have an F, an F2AS, and an F3P as my film arsenal. Might add an F4s, depending on how the auction I'm bidding on goes today.

-J

eddie · Jul 20, 2013

Valerie said:
I've learned not to beat myself up when I'm not working and look at is as "winter" when all the creativity has gone underground to regenerate and renew itself. "Spring"(new work/time to work).... always comes.

Well put... Creativity doesn't have an on/off switch. I find the "off" time to be beneficial. While I may not always be making photographs, I always "see" as a photographer. During the down times, project ideas start to percolate. With time (days, weeks, months) they begin to take shape, and I have to start them.

pgomena · Jul 21, 2013

I'm 57 and everything is slowing down, slowly but surely.

Family life and home maintenance keep me busy, time to photograph is not as plentiful as it was when I was 27.

The upside is that I waste less film and feel I'm seeing better all the time. There are advantages to age and experience.

Mustafa Umut Sarac · Jul 21, 2013

I have rollei 35s, leica plastic , xa and nettar. My lab is successing to process and scan my film where camera lenses are not identifiable. I am not seeing nothing but dark ugly scans. I am too lazy to find new lab and their prices increased
%300 , I think I will have no more business with taking photographs. But studying carbon, platin, gravure, wetplate , autochrome, dye transfer , rotogravure and the diy polaroid film and the linear scanner array rotating camera idea ,
increasing the complexity of the ergonomics of camera idea, pinhole anamorphic camera idea , building my lens from acrylic , writing my lens design program, writing my photoshop plug in keep me interested in somehow.

I have lots of hobbies like going to antarctica by rowing , making my top fuel engine out of concrete or carbon , building musical instruments , building americas cup boat 6 meters long , crossing the ocean in smallest boat , learning chinese , russian , dutch , marollian , german , developing syldavian expanded dictionary , machine translate 250000 pages of empire , soviet , russian archaeology journals , translating 140 volume byzantine books etc etc

And building gamelan instrument family from plasma cut 6mm steel , making a gong , obtaing many patents etc etc

benjiboy · Jul 21, 2013

I've slowed down a little in the last 2-3 weeks because it's been too hot in the U.K ( It's been the hottest and driest July in Britain so far for about 230 years) to lug my gear around in temperatures of around 86 F is for the birds , so I've tended to carry less equipment, and chose go out early in the morning and late in the evening, and I'm wearing just shorts and a T shirt,( an awesome sight )

Tom1956 · Jul 21, 2013

benjiboy said:
I've slowed down a little in the last 2-3 weeks because it's been too hot in the U.K ( It's been the hottest and driest July in Britain so far for about 230 years) to lug my gear around in temperatures of around 86 F is for the birds , so I've tended to carry less equipment, and chose go out early in the morning and late in the evening, and I'm wearing just shorts and a T shirt,( an awesome sight )

86 degrees in Britain is hot?

benjiboy · Jul 21, 2013

Tom1956 said:
86 degrees in Britain is hot?

It is Tom, because in the U.K. whatever weather we have it takes the authorities by surprise , three sunny days and there's a water shortage and a hosepipe ban, three or four inches of snow in the winter and the transport system grinds to halt, and they haven't enough grit to treat the roads and the schools are closed, if Moses would have seen our transport authorities there would have been another commandment.

StoneNYC · Jul 21, 2013

benjiboy said:
It is Tom, because in the U.K. whatever weather we have it takes the authorities by surprise , three sunny days and there's a water shortage and a hosepipe ban, three or four inches of snow in the winter and the transport system grinds to halt, and they haven't enough grit to treat the roads and the schools are closed, if Moses would have seen our transport authorities there would have been another commandment.

Wow, in Connecticut, USA we have had 100 degree days for about 2 weeks now, and this winter we had a single snowstorm that left 3-4 FEET of snow... That did take us a day or two to dig through, but still...

No wonder you couldn't handle fighting us... *snicker*

I don't like humidity but 86 degrees is almost a perfect temperature, so nice and warm but not too hot (unless you're in a business suit).

~Stone | Sent w/ iPhone using Tapatalk

Mainecoonmaniac · Jul 21, 2013

I had a conversation with a colleague about the obstacles in creating art. He recommended the book War of Art.

http://lifehacker.com/267724/beat-resistance-with-the-war-of-art

MattKing · Jul 21, 2013

StoneNYC said:
No wonder you couldn't handle fighting us... *snicker*

~Stone | Sent w/ iPhone using Tapatalk

Guess you weren't in Washington in August of 1814.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

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