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Does anybody share this feeling ...?
The theorem stipulates: if many photographers gather at the same event/ location, the quality of each single capture of that scene goes down. On the other hand, if you, as a photographer, are alone at a location and have the feeling you are the only one here and now to capture this unique setup, you pictures get a certain touch of inspiration.
I got in touch with that theorem, as I went to the Oktoberfest recently. After a family vacation with no opportunity for photograhs, I begged my wife for an evening off duty to go to the Oktoberfest to take some pictures with my Lomo LC-A there. But when I came to the "Wiesn", the fairground, my inspiration let me down. I saw a lot of photographers with digital SLR cameras using anti-shake/ image stabilised lenses or tripods, taking a lot of effort to capture the scenes well composed and technically perfect and of course, not to be unfair, focussing on the right photogenic subjects. I had the feeling all the good things have been photographed away.
Then my film advance hooked up and I was not sure about the right transport, opening the back of the camera and and and...
In summary, it was a bad evening ...
I brought my films (agfa precisa ct 100 slide film, partly with double exposures and overexposures/ light leaks due to the opening of the back) and an agfa vista 100 negative film to the lab and with a feeling, nothing can be worth from now on I get them both crossprocessed and pushed to 400 ISO. At least some of the captures gave me a bit of contentment back. But all the photos are not really inspired, which does not detain me from posting some of the results anyway :-)
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uhh - I forgot to remove the "draft" tag ... thus with some delay published!
Fotoapparatpro says:
Wenn man sich unbeobachtet fühlt handelt man anders als wenn man sich beobachtet fühlt (in Deinem Beispiel dann wohl von den "Kollegen"). Das ist zumindest in meinem Fall so. Vielleicht habe ich aus deshalb ein Faible für Photolocations an denen man in der Regel keine Leute trifft, so wie z.B. Schrottplätze oder andere verlassene Gegenden. Dort kann ich mich meist voll entfalten.
Felix
Annjin says:
I still don't feel comfortable taking pictures with a lot of others around, I prefer being more or less by myself. It makes me less distracted and more focused. For me its also a little intimidating standing together with other photographers with a lot of expensive equipment ... and I guess if one feel that way its harder to trust your own instincts and believe what one see is just as important than what others see. So perhaps, yes, one do get more inspired if there's not too many others around... On the other hand, some might see it as competition (photojournalists maybe?) and get inspired to take a better shot an the next one? ;)
MacKeypro says:
kommaasserpro says:
and now, watching your stream, i feel my shots (will upload them during the next weeks) are uninspired....
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