I don't do...

[Frank Szabo]

I don't do baby pictures or weddings-ever!
Peter

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.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

I don't do porno, but other than that never say never. ( But I do love dog pictures !)

Jeff

 

[Larry Bullis]

People are always asking "What do you take pictures of?"

Answer is always, "I don't do of".

 

[nemo999]

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).

 

[removed account4]

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

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

What would be worrisome, but probably very successful in the artworld, if you could do transvestite dogs.

Didn't William Wegman make a career out of that?

Cats.

I'm still not doing cats. As many years as I've lived in New York, I haven't even seen Cats. Katz's, I do.

 

[2F/2F]

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.

 

[yardkat]

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?!?"

 

[RobC]

I don't do PC

 

[Bluechapel]

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.

 

[Shmoo]

...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?!?"

lol

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

 

[matthewbetcher]

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.

 

[RobC]

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.

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.

 

[yardkat]

"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!

 

[Bluechapel]

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.

 

[Larry Bullis]

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.

OK.

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

Would YOU do THIS?

 

[vet173]

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.

I just had milk come out of my nose.

 

[Larry Bullis]

I just had milk come out of my nose.

Come on. Let's have a PICTURE!