What subject did you assume would be your favourite photographic subject?

AnimalRights

Besides gigs I assumed I would've loved Landscaping but it turns out I love nature/Macro far more.
A lot of this is not down to my pictures but from looking at other peoples pictures.

Fajitas!

I guess portraiture, but in the broadest sense of the genre - From music and event to 'proper' portraiture and fashion. I always kinda thought I'd have an interest in portraiture though, even back in my painting days.

Landscapes can be great, if they're different.

Sport is the one thing that I have no interest in whatsoever.

AnimalRights

Being an avid Sports nut I am obviously into that too, but if someone had have said to me a year ago I would love taking photos of Flowers I would've keeled over laughing.

Fajitas!

That's the thing - You really never know until you try!

Nothing better on a quiet day than to head out to the Botanics for a few photos.

Mellor

Biggest interest in architecture, all buildings and structures, esp old stuff


least in gig photos, i just dont get it

Fajitas!

Half of taking gig photos for me is the buzz of it... Actually, much more than half.

On Friday I ended up on the floor of a room about the size of my kitchen, the attic of a club, with about 80/90 people leading to the whole place filling up with sweat, and a metal band... and my fisheye. Was great fun... apart from when you realise it's not your own sweat on your face.

Paulw

Well, I tried a lot of different types of photography. In the end, I just clicked with sport, and relatively recently too. I was bitten by the bug.

I've also done some portrait photography, including some studio work which I really liked.

Gig photography and street photography do nothing for me. Just not my thing.

But the joy of photography is the vast tastes and experiences on boards.

Fenster

Landscape, which still holds partly true as my eduring interest is infrared photography.

melekalikimaka

gig was what got me into it,
event funds it
modelling is where i'm going with it i think

i love it all cept landscape...<shudder>

i like unusual techniques

YogiBear

Landscape, portrait (at the moment I'm using the free models in Dublin's parks )... I love macro shots.. I was up at Botanic Garden's on Saturday. I didn't plan it but spent most of the day up there wandering around. Great place for strolling about!

Sports photography doesn't interest me because sport doesn't interest me as such. Gig photography doesn't really either, I'd say as Fajitas says being there is probably most of the fun. I love black & white shots & I really like some digitally manipulated images too.

ThOnda

People, precisely women, if possible naked :-)

ginger nz

Interesting thread. Personally, I'd love to get into sports photography but the layout on gear turns me off. My second favourite is definitely night-time street scenes. I love the atmosphere

Roen

I would have thought Landscape as I adore being out in the mountains. I've come to realise that I'm just crap at it though.

I guess I'm leaning more toward people photography now, even though I don't actually do too much of it.

Hugh_C

Roen wrote: »

I would have thought Landscape as I adore being out in the mountains. I've come to realise that I'm just crap at it though.

Ah Roen ya big eejit you're doing yourself an injustice, your Gougane Barras on redbubble are only gorgeous.

Me? I though I was going to be the greatest rock photographer ever in the world back in the early eighties. But then I decided that rock photography is even more disposable and short-lived than rock itself so I decided on balance to take pictures of landscapes, things that will be around for a while. I also take the odd picture of a person.

The rock thing, yeah, well its an age thing innit? It seems utterly pointless to me now taking a picture of a person mid-song where the performance is tawdry and the capture is questionable. It imprisons a certain zeitgeist alright but further than that, it's a low form of documentary photography on a par with fashionistas and Hello covers.