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Nice shots. Tri-X?
I agree. It just might chase nervous people away like me especially today with all the spam that's around.
So Zenfolio is tracking their customers' customers to sell information on them?
Reminds me of recently, I was checking airfare to Paris on one of those reservation sites. The next day I started to get Paris restaurant food menu videos on YouTube.
Is there a way to turn off that notice? You're only going to scare away potential customers.
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I prefer people get a notice. Not worried about customers.
No way Brian !
You mustn't forget that you're now listed on imbd :
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!!Why do you make photographs?
Why not?
Why not?
Because I enjoy it.
It's a great excuse to get out of the house 
Why?
To preserve memories, and share them years later with those who shared the experiences....or those who did not and want to see. Also since the advent of social media, I take photos to share experiences soon after they happen. People have said that my facebook feed during a trip is almost like being along for the journey with me.
From a very young age, I understood that memories can be fleeting. And that photo (and audio) recording would be immensely useful years later in reminiscing and enjoying past times. When I say very young, I'm talking five years old. My first forays into taking photos beyond my own home and garden were made at Montessori school aged five in 1978 when my dad entrusted me with his Zeiss-Ikon folder. Decades on, the school classmates and teachers who might have showed mild annoyance at me documenting our daily lives are now interested in seeing and hearing what I have. The school is grateful that I shot some 20 minutes of general school life on super 8 cine film, including a few shots during classes. Everything from teaching, break times, lunch, fights, smoking, teachers waving at the camera who are now retired or deceased....moments of time captured. I've also got hundreds of still photos/negatives and even audio recordings. "Hey, Do you remember you recorded everyone in the class saying a sentence in 1980?". "Oh yes, hold on a sec I've got it in this drawer". "Do you still have the photos from the school trip to West Germany where we got to tour the East/West border?" "Yes, got the negatives and slides all preserved. Would you like a copy?"
With social media, the motivation is two-fold. To tell a story in the now, and to be able to look back on it years/decades hence. Also hopefully to do something a little artistic in terms of taking really *nice* photos.
I've also had a thing for photographing concerts and occasionally stage plays since my school days. Obviously most stage plays in the professional scene don't permit that but rock/blues/jazz gigs can be very different. I love the challenge of taking a film camera when everyone else is waving their phone about....and capturing something special without a flash. I've often had a knack of "taking the photograph everyone else doesn't". That knack has got my photos, taken from the audience, published online and in print and even resulted in an album cover. But that's not why I do it. I just enjoy preserving memories, and sometimes I do that really well.
To preserve memories, and share them years later with those who shared the experiences....or those who did not and want to see. Also since the advent of social media, I take photos to share experiences soon after they happen. People have said that my facebook feed during a trip is almost like being along for the journey with me.
From a very young age, I understood that memories can be fleeting. And that photo (and audio) recording would be immensely useful years later in reminiscing and enjoying past times. When I say very young, I'm talking five years old. My first forays into taking photos beyond my own home and garden were made at Montessori school aged five in 1978 when my dad entrusted me with his Zeiss-Ikon folder. Decades on, the school classmates and teachers who might have showed mild annoyance at me documenting our daily lives are now interested in seeing and hearing what I have. The school is grateful that I shot some 20 minutes of general school life on super 8 cine film, including a few shots during classes. Everything from teaching, break times, lunch, fights, smoking, teachers waving at the camera who are now retired or deceased....moments of time captured. I've also got hundreds of still photos/negatives and even audio recordings. "Hey, Do you remember you recorded everyone in the class saying a sentence in 1980?". "Oh yes, hold on a sec I've got it in this drawer". "Do you still have the photos from the school trip to West Germany where we got to tour the East/West border?" "Yes, got the negatives and slides all preserved. Would you like a copy?"
With social media, the motivation is two-fold. To tell a story in the now, and to be able to look back on it years/decades hence. Also hopefully to do something a little artistic in terms of taking really *nice* photos.
I've also had a thing for photographing concerts and occasionally stage plays since my school days. Obviously most stage plays in the professional scene don't permit that but rock/blues/jazz gigs can be very different. I love the challenge of taking a film camera when everyone else is waving their phone about....and capturing something special without a flash. I've often had a knack of "taking the photograph everyone else doesn't". That knack has got my photos, taken from the audience, published online and in print and even resulted in an album cover. But that's not why I do it. I just enjoy preserving memories, and sometimes I do that really well.
I digitized my old family 8mm film movies and slide photos and created digital shows on DVD's and memory cards that can be viewed on computer monitors, cellphones, 4K smart TVs etc and gave copies to family members who would be interested. I added music that would complement the images along with titles and credits, all a fun activity as well.
My late grandfather shot a lot of 8mm Kodachrome from 1964 until his death in 1972. About six hours in total, mostly of family holidays, my cousins as children (I wasn't quite born when he died), trips to zoos, museums, a trip to Ireland. Even some footage of industrial weaving looms and the workers. But mostly only of interest to the surviving members of the family. In 1993 his films were entrusted to me when my grandmother died. That Christmas we held a gathering and I was the only one who knew how to operate his projector...so we sat and watched about two hours worth of his films for the first time since 1972...indeed most of the people in the films were there.
About a decade later I took on the labour of love of transferring the whole lot to two VHS cassettes via Hi8 which enabled me to make a few decent copies for some of the people involved. Then two years ago I begun the process of transferring the original films to digital files and posting DVDs or offering downloads.
I guess my grandfather made those films for the same reason I make photographs (and films). They're now priceless reminders of past times...of people now grown up or gone. Shot by a man also long gone who clearly was capturing memories. Perhaps I take after him more than I know. I even use one of his 8mm cameras occasionally.
Great story. I still have my 8mm film camera although it's been decades since I used it. It's a triple lens, turret and winds up to run. No battteries or power cable. I used it mainly in my teens from 1958-1963 after which I went into the USAF. Most of the movies were of my sister's daughter as a baby and toddler and other family get togethers, holidays, the zoo, typical stuff. I filmed some more of her son when I got back but lost interest in it afterwards.
My sister later on made VHS tapes from the film. Then after my niece tragically was killed on 9-11, I decided to make a digital video using Adobe's Premiere Elements. I added baby and children music and separate clips into menu driven chapters. The whole thing was reduced to about thirty minutes of show time. I deleted a lot of superfluous and duplicated stuff. People just won;t be still and watch for too long. Then I gave DVD copies to my sister, who has passed away since, and my niece's brother. It was a labor of love.
Now that I think of it, I ought to update the DVD to memory cards for my nephew.
It's a great excuse to get out of the house
Not if you work in a home studio...
My uncle had the photo bug. A Leica with a 3-lens turret he brought back from Europe after the war, a darkroom in his bathroom, constantly taking photos of family and friends. Unfortunately most of the photos were bad, his darkroom prints mediocre. But he seemed to like it.
At least he was trying.
Every photograph that I take is a failed experiment. I have volumes of these filed in negative sleeves, sitting in ordered rows in the room behind me. Some images fail in interesting ways; these I organize into themes, and these themes into conceptual groupings, etc. When these groupings get large I select representatives that I exhibit or put into other books.
Doing this makes me less unhappy than reading the newspaper or listening to the stream of grievances that vomit incessantly out of the various media heads that float in the dark spaces around me.
Doing this makes me less unhappy than reading the newspaper or listening to the stream of grievances that vomit incessantly out of the various media heads that float in the dark spaces around me.
Why photography instead of painting or writing or music?
Good question! I think its because I've always liked cameras, especially ones that are 100% mechanical (no battery to function) with lots of different settings and options to try.
MurrayMinchin
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Carrying a camera gives one social license to stand or crouch in one spot, pondering, for minutes at a time.
Because I can't not make them...
It's like how you can walk around talking to yourself and no one will think it's weird if you have a cell phone in your hand.
MattKing
Moderator
Or more and more, if you have earbuds in your ears!
I hope to become Rich & Famous.
With my luck, i will be reloading film in my stupid "Film Camera"......... and a 15 year old, with a cell phone will get 30 frames of a 747, crash landing in a cornfield, and coming to a stop 40 Meters from a High School full of teenagers, all watching the disaster, at lunch time
With my luck, i will be reloading film in my stupid "Film Camera"......... and a 15 year old, with a cell phone will get 30 frames of a 747, crash landing in a cornfield, and coming to a stop 40 Meters from a High School full of teenagers, all watching the disaster, at lunch time
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