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What is NOT your photography?

  • 20-09-2008 10:19pm
    #1
    ThOnda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭


    Following the Martin Parr thread, I came with an idea.

    What is NOT your style of photography?

    Most of the discussion in the above mentioned thread was caused by the latest work that Martin Parr displayed on his page.

    Could you post some of your photos, that people like, however they are not your style, not your cup of tea, you just don't like them? Exactly those pictures that completely misjudge you and your photography.


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  • #2
    Calina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,219 ✭✭✭Calina


    I haven't actually done any fashion photography for a very good reason...

    hence, can't post any of it. It undoubtedly is not my style of photography though.


  • #3
    0utpost31
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭0utpost31


    Sports


  • #4
    Shiny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    +1 for Sport.

    No interest in the photos whatsoever.


  • #5
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    I am no closer to finding that out than i am to finding what IS my photography.

    So much to learn.


  • #6
    MartMax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭MartMax


    Being new in photography, I absolutely have no idea what I am all about but pretty much trial and error. :o


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  • #7
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Ask me in a few years...


  • #8
    kjt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭kjt


    I've yet to properly figure out what REALLY IS my photography, but I don't have a liking for gig shots in general.


  • #9
    smelltheglove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭smelltheglove


    Flash is not my photography! Where necessary bounce but definitely not direct in any way or form.

    At the moment landscape / nature is defo not my thing but I'm working on it, it just doesnt grab me. I havent done any product photography either.


  • #10
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,878 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    product photography is to photography what gravedigging is to landscape gardening.


  • #11
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    It does pay the bills though :)


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  • #12
    whyulittle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Gig/street/people!


  • #13
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    landscape and macro...


  • #14
    Weidii
    Closed Accounts Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Weidii


    Sport and flowers...


  • #15
    sunny2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    Nude self portraits !


  • #16
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Never understood the whole macro flower thing. Ok, you can get some great vivid colours, and closeups of insects, but never liked it really.


  • #17
    superflyninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭superflyninja


    lawks i have no idea.id try anything.


  • #18
    Dodgykeeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Dodgykeeper


    I have no interest in taking pictures of beggers, if I ever do pls feel free to take my camera and smash it up!

    For some reason I dont like doing landscapes, should really give them a go!


  • #19
    ThOnda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Dodgykeeper wrote: »
    For some reason I dont like doing landscapes, should really give them a go!

    Try a little different way of landscapes - in portrait orientation, for example (like on the cover of this book by Koudelka). Including detail at your feet, bridges, rails... Find what is interesting for you in countryside or the whole enviromnet.


  • #20
    beans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    SteveMcCurryAfghanGirl.jpg

    This is not my photography - it's that of Steve McCurry :pac:

    Sorry for the glib response, but everything else I tried to put down seemed worse. Photography is a function of your self, it's hard to find negatives. It's all a subject, however you see it.

    Even throwaway snapshots can come back generations down the line to be something that folk will appreciate. The walking skeleton / corpse-mountain photos from the holocaust are amazing. I don't understand sports, but cream myself over some of the sports shots I see posted here.

    Unless I misunderstood the OP, in which case I don't know what is not my photography. Perhaps HDR shots from inside churches? That kind of rubbish. Or maybe I just need to spend more time in a church, imagining it from deep shade to bright light?


  • #21
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    beans wrote: »
    Photography is a function of your self, it's hard to find negatives. It's all a subject, however you see it.

    Coud you explain this more, i dont quite get it?


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  • #22
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    melekalikimaka wrote: »
    Coud you explain this more, i dont quite get it?
    Photography is like your penis, may not always look great, but feels fantastic! ;)


  • #23
    beans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    melekalikimaka wrote:
    Coud you explain this more, i dont quite get it?

    Whatever I say, it can't top that last one :D

    But yeah, think about it... why do you take photos? Things are going on around out every second of the day, and you take shots of a .00000000 proportion of those things. Why aren't any of the other things captured? Because of you. That's what I mean by 'your photography is a function of you'

    If you've decided to open the shutter, you've clearly done so for a reason. So what you just did had value for you. Regardless of what 'type' of photography you were (doing/enjoying/making) whatever. But yeah, it just felt good at the time ;)

    Does that make sense?


  • #24
    thebaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,741 ✭✭✭✭thebaz


    this would be my most popular photo on flickr

    539015289_7bd4f926a3.jpg

    wouldn't be my style , then again photographing beautifull women , whom i find so attractive , i have difficulty photographing ..

    p.s. great shot beans


  • #25
    beans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    p.s. great shot beans

    That's mot mine, it's a famous National Geo pic

    This is the closest I have to a favourite portrait

    2196265468_7dafe3d49c.jpg

    My favourite non-posed person-shot. Shot on fast film


  • #26
    smelltheglove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭smelltheglove


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Photography is like your penis, may not always look great, but feels fantastic! ;)

    HAHA hilarious. I dont have one but I see what you mean, peeing myself here;)


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