How to turn funk into funky!

Dragan

I am not entirely sure what is going on at the moment but i haven't picked up my camera in a while. It's been easily two weeks since i have made a genuine effort to do anything with photography. This is surprising me and also a little unsettling.

I was pretty happy with my progress and i was certain that the quality of my work was improving but lately....nothing.

I have a nice relaxed weekend planned where i plan on making it out with my camera and my better half, have a nice shoot planned with her too, to see if i can lift the veil. Hopefully it will work and i'll get back into a flow.

So, what do you do when the funk hits you and suddenly the camera seems to weight a lot more than you want to carry?

Or, have you never experienced a lull in your creativity?

PopeBuckfastXVI

The weather gets me down a bit, when its rainy and windy here in teh west there's not much you can do except indoor work, and I don't have much of anything worth photographing in my house.

So I end up going through weeks of taking no pictures.

I'm working my way through lighting102 on strobist though, and that keeps me snapping and I'm also learning, so it's great for wet and windy evenings indoors!

Fajitas!

Change cameras, change film, change something!

smelltheglove

Agree with Fajitas, I was starting to get, ah sure they are all looking the same feeling until I got my new camera and back in action. Also my new lights have me interested in new things too.

Dragan

Fajitas! wrote: »

Change cameras, change film, change something!

I think maybe my biggest problem is just impatience. I tend to pick things up pretty quick and then all of a sudden i want to know everything, i think i should have found my own niche or something.

Good advice Al, change is on the way.

Fajitas!

Why not get a sh*tty old camera from a second hand shop, etc, or ebay, figure out how it works and have some fun with it!?

(I'm currently awaiting a Canonet G17 to arrive back from NY )

Dragan

Fajitas! wrote: »

Why not get a sh*tty old camera from a second hand shop, etc, or ebay, figure out how it works and have some fun with it!?

(I'm currently awaiting a Canonet G17 to arrive back from NY )

I am pretty lucky in that the better half has quite a few funky old camera's so that is quite easy. Right, just for the laugh i'm gonna say shiney lights, long exposures and Iron Man and see what i can come up with over the weekend! lol

Should be fun!

Red Hand

Do something completely different for a week or two. Like, if you have the time (and don't do so already), go out and walk the wild parts of Ireland for a day at the weekend. Bring a cheap, sh*tty disposable camera from Tescos. See some inspiring landscape? Snap it as best you can.

I'm not a photographer or anything but do like hill-walking and mountains, and on the odd occasion when walking, I'd bring a cheap disposable camera, and do my best with it. I had access to an expensive digital camera for a good while there and used it as best as I could. However, nothing gave me more satisfaction than using a cheap disposable to the best of my (and it's) ability, and getting one great shot from 26.

Climb Carrantwohil! Climb Mahon Falls! Climb Galtee Mor!

Climb something, and you will climb your way back on form again.

Typhoon.

Drag is your nice relaxed weekend the Iron man contest :eek: or am i reading that wrong ?

havent been out in a while with the camera myself.... the winter evenings are a bit of a pain....you'd really need the tripod with you...thats a bit awkward with the dog on the lead..roll on the summer

AnCatDubh

Here's something we all could try given the cold dark evenings are in - normally it is dished out as an assignment by some well meaning photo guru and there are a number of versions of it - It goes something like this; lock yourself into a confined space; the bathroom, the garden shed, the kitchen, or wherever. Give yourself 30 minutes and your task is to create 100 different shots. No burst shooting allowed You must set up every shot but given you have 30 minutes you don't really have long to do each if you are going to get 100. Then pick the *best* shot and post.

Borderfox

I went the Zoo today, seemed to do the trick.

kjt

I'm used to my lulls in photography by now. I'll go camera crazy one weekend, shoot lots of great shots. Then I'll process these over the next week/weeks/months and not shoot again for 2/3weeks. Works for me

nilhg

Birdfeeder, peanuts, even if you never take a shot you'll have loads of entertainment.