Hello from Pittsburgh

Greetings all. I’ve been shooting on and off for thirty years. I tried to make it into a career once, and that just about ruined everything. I’ve kept dabbling over the years and have regained my love of the medium recently. I shoot only for myself these days and my ambitions are internal in nature. I just want to create images that invoke a feeling in the viewer, whether it’s nostalgia, joy, or dread. I just want to make an image that doesn’t bore. This may be a long endeavor, we shall see. I will shoot with any camera, as long as it suits my needs, but talking about cameras and gear is not my thing. Just the constant improvement of my eye for visual stories and gut feelings rendered on film. I’m not above shooting digital, it’s quite useful, but film is my first love.

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Welcome to the forum. Lots of great people here, well moderated.

Welcome aboard @WrenchPilot ! It's great to have you.

WrenchPilot said:

I just want to make an image that doesn’t bore. This may be a long endeavor, we shall see. I will shoot with any camera, as long as it suits my needs, but talking about cameras and gear is not my thing. Just the constant improvement of my eye for visual stories and gut feelings rendered on film. I’m not above shooting digital, it’s quite useful, but film is my first love.

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This is very interesting indeed. You'll find (and have found, already, I suppose) that much of the talk on Photrio is tech-talk. That's fine; I suppose technical subject matter lends itself to being discussed on a forum. And amateur photographers tend to have an above-average technical interest, with the photography hobby leaning towards camera collecting and tinkering in some of us. As a result, discussion of image-making as such, let alone story-telling, visual impact, composition etc. is a bit more scarce. I, for one, would welcome it if there would be more interaction in this direction here. I know it won't have to come at the cost of the tech-talk - it would be a welcome addition. So all this is to say that please, feel free to take the stage, even if you feel that the tendency of the forum might be more tech-oriented. It doesn't have to stay that way, exclusively.

Plus one on koraks comments. I have considered my pursuit of photographing as an adventure. While I seek to make images that are interesting and esthetically appealing the main takeaway for me has been to “see”as opposed to “looking “ and has continued to be so for more than fifty years.

jeffreyg said:

Plus one on koraks comments. I have considered my pursuit of photographing as an adventure. While I seek to make images that are interesting and esthetically appealing the main takeaway for me has been to “see”as opposed to “looking “ and has continued to be so for more than fifty years.

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Another thumbs-up for Koraks’ plea. I’ve drifted away from photography discussion groups for exactly that reason. Maybe a good thing—time spent off the web is time well spent, maybe actually shooting film...

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Howdy neighbor from the mountain. Welcome to the asylum.