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Peter Schrager said:
I don't do baby pictures or weddings-ever!
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That's what I said for years, then, my darling brat daughter got married and had a helluva cute girl. My stepson got married and needed photos.


It would seem the primary function of any kid is to make a liar out of the parent in this regard.
 

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I don't do ...

... any pictures whatsoever of people I don't know (nebulous legal position, paranoia mounting by the day, CERTAINTY that I couldn't use them commercially as I would want to without a signed model release from every recognizable person).

... any commercial photography whatsoever (worked as a pro in my youth, now just the thought of carrying a wagonload of equipment starts my backache, whereas art projects can be done, and are often better done, with just one camera and lens).
 

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i used to say i don't do ..
but i came to the conclusion
that it wasn't worth it ..
now i do most of the things
i swore i would never do
 

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I don't do headshots, because I hate it and it is not worth the money in the digital age, with every bozo around doing it for $40.

If it paid better, I would do it, and anything else, including porn.
 
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I think when I was in college I would have been appalled at the idea of taking pictures of my dogs, my friend's baby, or a friend's cat...oh that is NOT ART! but I just like taking pictures, and I don't do it for a living, or to please anyone else, so... I guess it means I take pictures of all that stuff.
I am also a knitter, and once (twice) while yarn shopping I said to the clerk (this has actually happened twice) "I don't knit socks" and the clerk(s) replied with shock and awe, "Well, what DO you knit then?!?"
 

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I'm a whore, I'll shoot anything. If it's interesting enough to capture my attention, or if someone is paying me enough to capture my attention.

Now, if I can just find a wedding, in a slot canyon, with a baby wrapped up in a Calla, a bunch of cats in silly clothing, and a digital camera.
 

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yardkat said:
...I am also a knitter, and once (twice) while yarn shopping I said to the clerk (this has actually happened twice) "I don't knit socks" and the clerk(s) replied with shock and awe, "Well, what DO you knit then?!?"
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lol

I once knitted a pair of socks. Somewhere on earth, Godzilla's feet are nice and toasty.
 

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I always said i would never shoot anything for anyone else. I guess I was holding on to the medium in some way as my form of artistic expression with no real value for anything else. Sure I have a lot of friends who make great livings with their commercial photography... but I always thought, "where is the personal fulfillment in that? Where is the fun of massively f___ing up something because you had some brain-fart of an idea you knew had little to no chance of succeeding? (after all, that is where most of the great ideas come from...)"

Anyway, I always said I would never do babies, weddings, or pets... then...

chienchienphoto.com

... but I'm serious! I don't do babies or weddings.
 

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Thats would be a fun idea for a photo competition. Produce the most cliched and cheesy lookiing photograph you possibly can. Would teach everyone a hell of a lot about what they should or shouldn't be doing depending on your point of view.
 

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"I once knitted a pair of socks. Somewhere on earth, Godzilla's feet are nice and toasty."

Tee hee! Send them to me, they might actually fit!
 

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I really think we do need a seperate gallery of:
1) the cliched shots we did when we were young and stupid and trying to 'prove ourselves', and
2) the mostly intentionaly cheesy shot we can come up with.

Yes, I shot a lot of my cats when I first picked up a camera at 10. Come to think of it, in grad school I finally HAD to take some art classes, and the cats were victums again because they'd sleep long enough for me to draw them.
 

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q2q@tds.net said:
I really think we do need a seperate gallery of:
1) the cliched shots we did when we were young and stupid and trying to 'prove ourselves', and
2) the mostly intentionaly cheesy shot we can come up with.
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OK.

Can't do the gallery thing just now. Here you go.

Would YOU do THIS?
 

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Dug said:
I don't do online galleries

"The negative is the score,
the print is the performance."

the online scan is the performance played on a kazoo.
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I just had milk come out of my nose.
 
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