what type of photography intimidates you, or you don't like, and why ?

removed account4 · Jan 31, 2016

we all have our favorite genre we like to expose and print in
things we like to look at, and sometimes dream we might be able to do things " just like that "

what is the sort of photography you DON'T like ( or maybe makes you feel uncomfortable ) and why ?

scheimfluger_77 · Jan 31, 2016

I'm uncomfortable photographing people, and sometimes being out in public making photos where people will be in them as a part of the scene.

Old-N-Feeble · Jan 31, 2016

As a younger man I was very uncomfortable photographing people (or even meeting new people). In my mid twenties I took a job to support my family and was forced to overcome those anxieties because half of the job was shooting portraits. That job changed me for the better and I'm thankful for that.

Photo Engineer · Jan 31, 2016

Sorry to report that I have never had inhibitions regarding any photographic subject.

PE

benjiboy · Jan 31, 2016

Nude photography although I love photographing people, every time I have attempted it the results have been almost pornographic, I am not a prude but to produce something that is beautiful and tasteful is the most difficult branch of photography I have ever attempted and stopped trying years ago.

OptiKen · Jan 31, 2016

scheimfluger_77 said:
I'm uncomfortable photographing people, and sometimes being out in public making photos where people will be in them as a part of the scene.

+1

Peter Rockstroh01 · Jan 31, 2016

I don't enjoy photographing people. I am not drawn towards processess that produce images that don't look like photographs. I haven't tried using cameras with plastic lenses and 20 yeat old film, because I would hate running into a great photographic opoortunity and not having the necessary material to record it the way I believe it deserves to be recorded. There are some photographic styles that don't thrill me, no matter how clever the name. I enjoy "the stark beauty the lens can so exactly render."

MattKing · Jan 31, 2016

Most sports or fast action photography, because although I don't feel uncomfortable doing it, I just don't do it well enough.

Colonel Blimp · Jan 31, 2016

I work in humanitarian aid and when I go to the "field" my colleagues and family/friends expect me to come back with lots of photographs of people and places to illustrate our work. I always fail to give them what they want. I just can't. Fortunately for everyone, including those photographed, we have professional photographers in-house who know their job (including the privacy/legal/protection/security stuff).

frank · Jan 31, 2016

I dislike doing sports and wildlife photography involving long lenses. Just not my cup of tea.

cliveh · Jan 31, 2016

Any type of photography that offends or is intrusive to humanist values.

blansky · Jan 31, 2016

Forensic would bother me.

But mostly what I always shy away from is photography for an overseer. Like a art director, or client who has specific wants or needs.

I prefer doing what I want, although am not against collaboration. But don't like being a subcontractor. The help.

So I haven't done that for years.

mooseontheloose · Jan 31, 2016

People I guess, portraits or street. I have so few photographs of the people in my life it's a shame. Part of it I think is because it seems kind of formal to pull out a camera to shoot a portrait of someone I know. As for street photography, it's a genre that I really like and appreciate, but that I'm terrible at. That is mostly because I myself hate to be shot by people I don't know (without permission) - partly to do with years in the tourist industry having had thousands of people treat me like an object for their photographs - so I don't like to do it to others.

BradleyK · Jan 31, 2016

Photo Engineer said:
Sorry to report that I have never had inhibitions regarding any photographic subject.

PE

+1. By nature an introvert, I find having a camera removes any reservations I have about photographing anything. Without one, however, I will often go to extreme lengths to avoid interacting with my fellow carbon-based life forms...

Old-N-Feeble · Jan 31, 2016

blansky said:
Forensic would bother me.

But mostly what I always shy away from is photography for an overseer. Like a art director, or client who has specific wants or needs.

I prefer doing what I want, although am not against collaboration. But don't like being a subcontractor. The help.

So I haven't done that for years.

Yeah... that too. The unsuccessful murders, suicides, physical abuse, robberies, aircraft crashes and auto accidents that render little physical harm aren't so bad... but those that are heart-breaking aren't easy at all. In fact, at times it can be damned hard to do one's job.

Tis Himself · Jan 31, 2016

Not intimidated by any type of photography. Don't care to shoot people/portraits, just not my thing. Forensics would not bother me, since as a funeral director for several years, there is little that I have not seen.

Sirius Glass · Jan 31, 2016

scheimfluger_77 said:
I'm uncomfortable photographing people, and sometimes being out in public making photos where people will be in them as a part of the scene.

Peter Rockstroh01 said:
I don't enjoy photographing people. I am not drawn towards processess that produce images that don't look like photographs. I haven't tried using cameras with plastic lenses and 20 yeat old film, because I would hate running into a great photographic opoortunity and not having the necessary material to record it the way I believe it deserves to be recorded. There are some photographic styles that don't thrill me, no matter how clever the name. I enjoy "the stark beauty the lens can so exactly render."

Michael R 1974 said:
An example for me would be photographs of people and/or photographic portraiture. Almost never holds interest for me for various reasons. I'm not intimidated. Just don't like it. I've often wondered about whether it's that for me this is simply a limitation of this particular medium, or that I just haven't seen it done in a way that would mean something to me. Not sure.

Not intimidated, just do not like to do them: Street Portraits. My father would ask people on the street if he could photograph them. When they said yes he would get so close to them with the Mamiya C300 and crank the lens way out so that each lens was almost shoved up their nostrils. I would see the look of horror on their faces. So any time I think to taking portraits of people in the street, I recall the faces and just move on.

TheFlyingCamera · Jan 31, 2016

I get intimidated by doing street portraits; it's something I want to do more of, and need to practice. Believe it or not I'm actually a bit of an introvert, and approaching strangers and asking their permission is a real challenge for me. Portraits in the studio, though, are not nearly as scary, perhaps because I cut my photographic teeth shooting nudes. After you've asked someone to pose in some unnatural way in their altogether, pretty much anything else is easy.

While a pretty landscape photo is always pleasing to look at, taking them myself puts me to sleep. There are times when I'm moved to point the camera at a tree, but most of the time I feel like every single field, forest and rock outcropping has been photographed to death by a zillion Ansel Adams wannabes, and I don't need to contribute to the visual clutter.

Photo Engineer · Jan 31, 2016

blansky said:
Forensic would bother me.

But mostly what I always shy away from is photography for an overseer. Like a art director, or client who has specific wants or needs.

I prefer doing what I want, although am not against collaboration. But don't like being a subcontractor. The help.

So I haven't done that for years.

During my military assignments, the photo group whatever its primary mission, was tasked with all "forensic" photography short of the autopsy itself. I've seen too many of those, the real thing, but never actually had to do it personally. I don't think it would bother me except for the smell in some cases.

PE

Theo Sulphate · Jan 31, 2016

A few years ago I would've said people or portraits, but since then I've made a dozen or so very nice engaging portraits that the subjects really liked.

Weddings - I wouldn't do those. Too demanding, too much potential stress, and I'd suck at it.

Wayne · Jan 31, 2016

I wont mention whose work I don't like because then someone will post it and it will take years to get out of my head again.

Jim Jones · Jan 31, 2016

cliveh said:
Any type of photography that offends or is intrusive to humanist values.

Yes, indeed. We should all follow this example.

Ian Grant · Jan 31, 2016

benjiboy said:
Nude photography although I love photographing people, every time I have attempted it the results have been almost pornographic, I am not a prude but to produce something that is beautiful and tasteful is the most difficult branch of photography I have ever attempted and stopped trying years ago.

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I don't have a problem shooting nudes I've shot a lot, I think though it's harder drawing a line between what you think is tasteful and whats pornographic. I drew my own line many years ago but after a distasteful experience when my then girlfriend showed some nude but very nu-revealing images to an art student, he got the idea she was free and easy, I decided to make some changes..

Since then I only work with professional models and the images are ones I'd have no hesitation showing my (late) mother. I can fully understand your POV Ben.

Ian

Ian Grant · Jan 31, 2016

blansky said:
Forensic would bother me.

But mostly what I always shy away from is photography for an overseer. Like a art director, or client who has specific wants or needs.

I prefer doing what I want, although am not against collaboration. But don't like being a subcontractor. The help.

So I haven't done that for years.

I think I agree, I'd struggle with forensic work the sight of blood is too much. However I'm sure that could be overcome, I've severed an artery in the past and instantly took control and stopped the bleeding, then the first aiders didn't like the blood and didn't know what to do

More seriously I wouldn't want to see the crime scenes, have inside knowledge and not be able to walk away. I've friends who a re medical photographers and I wouldn't like that either.

Ian

benjiboy · Jan 31, 2016

Ian Grant said:
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I don't have a problem shooting nudes I've shot a lot, I think though it's harder drawing a line between what you think is tasteful and whats pornographic. I drew my own line many years ago but after a distasteful experience when my then girlfriend showed some nude but very nu-revealing images to an art student, he got the idea she was free and easy, I decided to make some changes..

Since then I only work with professional models and the images are ones I'd have no hesitation showing my (late) mother. I can fully understand your POV Ben.

Ian

I too have shot many nudes Ian, but very few that I was satisfied with, in that the majority of them didn't achieve the effect I was trying to produce to be worth the trouble and expense of obtaining suitable sitters, and the possible unseen future consequences of shooting nude females which is a minefield especially since I wasn't doing it for a living I thought the wisest thing was not to do it any more, that was a long time ago and I have newer regretted that decision.

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