Shooting too much?! Please help.

logan2z · Jun 10, 2019

I seem to have the opposite problem, I think I shoot too little. I'm pretty choosy about what I shoot and sometimes later regret not taking some shots because I thought they wouldn't be strong enough. I can walk around for hours and shoot only one or two pictures - sometimes none. That can mean weeks before I shoot a roll of 35mm film. I'm thinking about going medium format so I can see my pictures sooner

Luckless · Jun 10, 2019

logan2z said:
I seem to have the opposite problem, I think I shoot too little. I'm pretty choosy about what I shoot and sometimes later regret not taking some shots because I thought they wouldn't be strong enough. I can walk around for hours and shoot only one or two pictures - sometimes none. That can mean weeks before I shoot a roll of 35mm film. I'm thinking about going medium format so I can see my pictures sooner

I hop back and forth between taking too many photos or not enough. I'll wander around for days trying to find something worth finishing off the last one or two frames of a 6x6 roll of 120, and other days I'll find a group of ducklings just after loading a new roll, and then wonder how I skipped ahead to frame 8 or 10 in just a few minutes.

John51 · Jun 11, 2019

logan2z said:
I seem to have the opposite problem, I think I shoot too little. I'm pretty choosy about what I shoot and sometimes later regret not taking some shots because I thought they wouldn't be strong enough. I can walk around for hours and shoot only one or two pictures - sometimes none. That can mean weeks before I shoot a roll of 35mm film. I'm thinking about going medium format so I can see my pictures sooner

Go for a 6x9 folder. Easy enough to carry and 8 pics per roll.

Andrew O'Neill · Jun 11, 2019

ericdan said:
It all started with a job I hated and an ugly divorce. Needed something else to do and think about.
I started shooting 30-40 mins every morning before I go to work for the past 6-7 years. Roughly 4-5 rolls a month just for the morning sessions. Then I shoot on weekend mornings too. Also in the same area. It’s always the same few streets between my house and the train station. I’m surprised myself I haven’t gotten bored of it yet. It just became a habit. A thing I do like brushing teeth. The job and relationship problems are gone but I still shoot.

What if this is all BS shots in the end? It’s always the same stuff basically. I think I have 1100 rolls shot with 70% being these little streets. I’ll never have time to print all this stuff. I really don’t know what to do.

When I lived in Japan, I always had a small camera with me and photographed from my apartment to the train station... from other stations to wherever I needed to go. It never got old. So, just keep doing it until the voice in your head says otherwise.

TheRook · Jun 16, 2019

To get away from shooting the same subjects over and over again, shoot stuff in your home. Cameras do work indoors, you know!
And I don't mean photographing your furniture. Rather, create interesting arrangements of objects you find around your home. Be creative.

railwayman3 · Jun 16, 2019

I recently revisited a number of places where I lived as a child. I so now wish that I had been interested in photography and had taken loads of pictures at the time......shops, buildings, streets, cars, trains, just the everyday scenes and happenings. Almost everything would now be of real interest, some might even have been of some value for local history and publishing.......far better than my so-called "artistic" efforts when I first took up photography !

ericdan · Jun 16, 2019

TheRook said:
To get away from shooting the same subjects over and over again, shoot stuff in your home. Cameras do work indoors, you know!
And I don't mean photographing your furniture. Rather, create interesting arrangements of objects you find around your home. Be creative.

I like capturing moments. Still life isn’t really my thing.

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