What are your personal objectives in your photogrpahy

[[Geoff Slocock]]

A forum such as this is a very broad church indeed.

I can mention my personal objectives in a minute, but we all experience cost restraints and have ambitions of artistry and self-fulfilment. In different ways, too, we are able to be adventurous or feel restrained in some way. Feelings of liberation or imprisonment seem to get blended in, often. Maybe, for example, we can do very creative things with software or, indeed, maybe we feel we could never get practised in what we might think of as being rather dark arts.

Then there is the business of mastery of your camera which maybe feels like a butterfly that you can't quite catch.

So now for My Objectives. I think my prime objective has become making images that I can look back at, that take me to things that I have seen and that help me to hold on to pleasure in those experiences. I have spent money on my hobby but I know, too, that I have enough experience behind me, now, to still get good results from modest equipment. It is, from my experience, a very time consuming hobby, but in many ways it keeps me calm and keeps me active and alert. So I would say the emotional or psychological benefit to me has been profound; and that is perhaps why I have felt able to invest in it.

Because there always different aspects of a shot that can be highlighted in different ways with various depth of field, focussing or exposure or post processing treatments, there is also an intrigue in photography that I find. These, in fact, were the very considerations that used to frustrate me so. So I guess this is part of why I sometimes call my photography a spiritual journey.

So what are your objectives, with your photography?

[[Phil1958]]

(01-02-2012 11:36 AM)Geoff Slocock Wrote:  A forum such as this is a very broad church indeed.

I can mention my personal objectives in a minute, but we all experience cost restraints and have ambitions of artistry and self-fulfilment. In different ways, too, we are able to be adventurous or feel restrained in some way. Feelings of liberation or imprisonment seem to get blended in, often. Maybe, for example, we can do very creative things with software or, indeed, maybe we feel we could never get practised in what we might think of as being rather dark arts.

Then there is the business of mastery of your camera which maybe feels like a butterfly that you can't quite catch.

So now for My Objectives. I think my prime objective has become making images that I can look back at, that take me to things that I have seen and that help me to hold on to pleasure in those experiences. I have spent money on my hobby but I know, too, that I have enough experience behind me, now, to still get good results from modest equipment. It is, from my experience, a very time consuming hobby, but in many ways it keeps me calm and keeps me active and alert. So I would say the emotional or psychological benefit to me has been profound; and that is perhaps why I have felt able to invest in it.

Because there always different aspects of a shot that can be highlighted in different ways with various depth of field, focussing or exposure or post processing treatments, there is also an intrigue in photography that I find. These, in fact, were the very considerations that used to frustrate me so. So I guess this is part of why I sometimes call my photography a spiritual journey.

So what are your objectives, with your photography?

I started photography when I was 18 and computers were (lets say in development).. I brought a rather expensive Pentax 35MM camera and shot everything in sight - I even brought a 135mm Lens? anyway the hobby was interrupted by marriage, house buying, family rearing, car repairing - you name it - it was always a higher priority than a roll of film and development charges!
Family marry and leave home and also leave me skint - I decided to take up a hobby - a 'cheap' hobby - ERR MOUNTAIN BIKING!!!
I could have had a Ferrari on the drive by the time I decided to stop spending on ever lighter bike stuff...
So in January I decided to re-surrect the photo hobby, and fear of falling into the moutain bike trap decided to buy a bridge camera.. and whoo hoo am I enjoying it :-)
So the personal objectives are just to get out in the fresh air and enjoy ... and maybe take a snapshot or three

[[Geoff Slocock]]

I'm laughing because I set out being determined not to spend money!

[[Corblimy]]

After using my little Sony Cybershot and becoming acutely aware of its limitations, I hankered after a new camera. I didnt want to got the full DSLR route as I thought it was too advanced for me. The Nikon L120 bridge camera I have now is ideal (for the moment) But I am aware of its own limitations though.
But objectives? a hard one this. I have no real desire to become a photographer per se. But I do want the photos I take to be more than just snapshots. I do want to learn a little more about composure and post processing so as to achieve better results.
Quite a simple objective really, but then I never have been that ambitious!