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Why do you...

Saturday October 25, 2008 at 05:28PM

take photos?

Is it a simple question? Or do you have to think about it before you can answer?

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a.C.kpro says:
Am Anfang machte ich Fotos um Momente einzufangen.... jetzt versuche ich das gleiche auch mit Emotionen....
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
TSLpro replies:
Das hast Du sehr schön gesagt! Spricht mir aus dem Herzen.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Olherpro says:
Ich versuch einfach nur "schöne" Fotos zu machen. Leider ist Kunst selten schön!
Trotzdem oder gerade deshalb hoffe ich, daß meine Fotos gefallen.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Sherry ~ Rebujito says:
just look at my shit
obviously just for fun ;-)
and to record wonderful moments
sometimes I get lucky
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Jonathan Ward says:
i did a similar blog post for choice of cameras (www.ipernity.com/blog/jonward/63631). but this is a better questions. I cannot simply say why not.

for me, i guess it is the closest thing i have to meditation. I just see (and normally in B&W!) frames and shades and tones and photos in everything when i am in the mood. no thinking, just feeling. It allows me to see beauty in things not apparent, to record how amazing the world can be, in positive or negative ways. it's an outlet for creativity, and expression. most of all....it's fun.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Guido the Anti Christ...Masih ad-Dajjal (Arabic: الدّج says:
its for me part of my artist life and many photos i make art on the computer
mean change to art
or just as a memory of a good feeling or moment
so real simple
the why

why must phrotos allways have a deeper sence
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Seyda says:
l like it :))
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Justine Simon says:
Why? Because I have to.
Not for living.
But for life. My life.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
*Ingo*pro says:
es ist bei mir eine Art Sucht, auf der Suche mich zu entwickeln
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
DerBaumpro replies:
so gehts mir auch...
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
*Ingo*pro replies:
...Prima Dirk, dann sind wir schon 2
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
graphistolage.fr says:
Simply to please me :))
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Aref Nammari (goplayer) says:
I take photos because there is this urge within me that pushes me to. Doesn't sound like an answer!! But I can't rationalize it.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
jake makes slideshowspro says:
There is not a single reason :)

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Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
tuvalupro says:
I think it's a way to look into my soul. Or the other way round, to let my soul surface...

light...
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
psychocatharsispro replies:
nicely put!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Modalopro says:
It makes me feel good. And it makes me feel bad. And just because I do. Hm. :-)
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Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Marie L. Photography says:
To say what I cannot say…
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
DerBaumpro says:
schwer zu sagen, wenn man seit ca.40 jahren fotografiert, also ein ganzes leben lang, im augenblick bereitet mir das fotografieren viel mehr spaß als dann bilder "entwickeln" oder gar veröffentlichen, sucht ist wohl ein gutes wort, draußensein und das richte motiv und den passenden ausschnitt oder blickwinkel suchen - das isses im augenblick...
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Johanbl says:
Basically, because I enjoy it.
I am a visual person, but I can't make a decent drawing,
so photography is very good.
Also it makes you look and think about reality,
you don't really need a camera to look and think, but it helps.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
GiNa P. replies:
I think the camera is a chance to see the world with different eyes. But learning to see in this way... I cannot imagine it's possible to learn it without the camera.
And then we can be lucky if we can see the world more sensible without a camera.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
Anthony le Bourlierpro says:
i shot as i breathe
can't do without


One photographer said once
"If i knew how to tell what i think, i wouldn't make photo"

I think it's a similar reason ...
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
GiNa P. replies:
... and that's why this is a good way for kids to express themselves....
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
Oddur Jonssonpro says:
I had to think for some seconds... I like landscape and beautiful things very much and I guess I want to try to capture the beautiful things that I see and let others enjoy it too :o)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
psychocatharsispro says:
A lot of my pics have a lot of post-processing. I think I sometimes "reject reality and substitute my own" (to speak with the infamous words of Adam Savage :))
But in fact, photography let me have a better grasp of reality. It let me see through the outer surface and discover other worlds, which are essentially my projections. In other words: photography lets me discover myself
I quite agree with Tuvalu in this one. But he described it way better :)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
psychocatharsis edited this comment 13 months ago.
Yeshim Khaley Istanbul says:
it is my life style...I want to share beauties which I see:-)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
ghoermannpro says:
bacause I am very bad in painting 8-) I love the idea of a dead guru who thinks that taking pictures leads us to a better understanding of the world and ourselves.

miksang.com


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Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
JT Guy says:
I can't remember how to go without it, so I continue.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
frankpro says:
i take photos mostly because often times i’m too lazy
or too impatient to paint or draw the stuff ... ;^)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Lichtbold replies:
:-D
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
GiNa P. replies:
Hehe... I also couldn't paint my world... but I love to make paintings, that's why I paint my feelings about my world... sometimes...
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
says:
Weil ich es liebe.

Because I love it.

:)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Pixiepro says:
Usually I take photos because I feel the urge to do so.
Sometimes I take photos because there is some special photo I need to realize an idea.
Always I take photos because I love it :o)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Johnny Stompanato says:
because I see them.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
dini says:
Für mich ist es eine Möglichkeit mich auszudrücken und die Welt so einzufangen, wie ich sie sehe.
Ich möchte nicht einfach nur Dinge ablichten, ich möchte Geschichten erzählen und die Bilder leben lassen. Dem Betrachter sollen Emotionen entlockt werden.
Deshalb fotografiere ich.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Nils Pickertpro says:
"I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically that's why I photograph [...]. That's the beginning of it, and then we got to play the games." - Garry Winogrand

I think this wraps it up quite well for me :-)

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Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Lichtbold says:
Why not? :p
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
Lichtbold says:
Ok, I've thought about it. There are many aspects:

First of all, I don't take photos, I make pictures.

I do so for different reasons
- accessing my unconscious (sometimes, in the process of post processing)
- looking at a world that seems too well known with an open, unbiased mind.
- the moment. NOW. Magic. Can't explain, it's a feeling.
- having an occupation
- enjoying sharing them, receiving nice comments and writing nice comments
- the illusion of doing something very important, thus being very important. Yes, I want to make VIPs (very important pictures) ;)
- sometimes I don't feel like making pictures at all and have a break

Why do you ask? Do you have doubts? Must everything we do have reasons, a goal, an effect?

Isn't it enough to simply enjoy doing something?
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
GiNa P. replies:
No doubts! (Ich schreib mal in Deutsch weiter, das ist für mich gerade leichter.)

Also Zweifel habe ich nicht, im Gegenteil, sonst hätte ich mich nicht an das Thema im Zusammenhang mit meiner Examensarbeit gewagt. Wagen passt wirklich, da ich eine Menge dazulerne und momentan noch nicht genau sagen kann, ob das was ich mache, meinen eigenen Ansprüchen (und natürlich den meines Profs) genügt.

Aber sobald man sich nicht nur praktisch mit Fotografie beschäftigt, sondern auch theoretisch (und da meine ich nicht nur in Bezug auf das Fachwissen, sondern auf die Vermittlung und den Sinn oder Unsinn innerhalb einer AG), fängt man an nachzudenken... überlegt... macht sich bewusster, warum man selbst überhaupt fotografisch aktiv ist und was man für eigene Ansprüche in dieser Hinsicht hat.

Und mir ist aufgefallen: Wenn ich einen kreativen Ausgleich zum Uni-Alltag brauchte im Laufe des letzten Jahres, dann habe ich meistens fotografiert. Doch die letzte Woche habe ich wieder das Malzeug rausgekramt. Ich kann mir selbst nur noch nicht genau erklären, warum.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Lichtbold replies:
Interessant. Ich wünsche Dir auf jeden Fall gutes Gelingen bei Deinem Wagnis :)

Du sagst es selber, Du suchst einen kreativen Ausgleich. Ich sehe da einen bestimmten Kontext: unsere Welt wird immer funktionaler, selbst die vielen Reize, denen wir heutzutage ausgesetzt sind, sind funktionalisiert (Werbung zB.). Es erscheint vielleicht zunächst paradox, wenn ich behaupte, daß unsere Umwelt trotz dieser Reizüberflutung reizärmer geworden ist. Was ich meine ist, daß die Reize, die uns wirklich befriedigen oder erfüllen, immer weniger werden. Natur, um es kurz zu sagen. Oder wenn man sich die moderne Architektur im Vergleich zu historischen Bauten ansieht. Historische Fassaden sind so reich an Verzierungen, so phantasievoll gestaltet.

Fotografie in dem Kontext ist vielleicht auch der Versuch, das wenige Schöne, das noch übrig ist, festzuhalten. Oder auch der Versuch, dem funktionalen Aussen noch ein wenig Schönheit abzutrotzen :)

Zum Malzeug: ich spiele gerne Gitarre. Es ist etwas ganz eigenes, direkten physischen Kontakt zu einem Instrument zu haben, es ist eine Unmittelbarkeit, die andere Werkzeuge nicht bieten. Ich könnte mir gut vorstellen, daß es Dir beim Malen ebenso geht.

Noch ein schönes Wochenende :)
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
pimlicopro says:
Est-ce une question simple? Pas très simple. Je devrais réfléchir.. A plusieurs moments de ma vie j'ai eu cette envie et j'ai été déçu par les résultats. Puis je n'aime pas la complication technique. Cartier-Bresson me plaisait cependant— prendre sur le vif, attraper au vol. Ce n'est que lorsque je suis allé à Pékin que j'ai acheté un appareil simple. J'ai aussitôt aimé photographier et certaines photos ont été réussies. Et ma collègue de travail m'a encouragé. Il y a maintenant douze ans de cela et je prends des photos numériques en grand nombre, au cours de voyages le plus souvent. Je les regarde beaucoup sur le Mac et utilise iphoto.
Tout nouveau sur ipernity, je m'apprête à charger des photos. J'ai commencé par placer une dizaine d'images pour famille et amis, mais pense qu'il faut franchir le pas et les montrer à tous. Sinon pourquoi avoir répondu à la question?
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
pimlicopro says:
A simple question? Not really. Several times in my life I wanted to take pictures and did so, but was disappointed by what I got. And I don't enjoy all the technical stuff to do with cameras ( that may raise eyebrows). But I had a dream of shooting like Cartier-Bresson, on those lines. Then I was going to China for work with a few days free and I ought to bring back pictures. So my wife bought me a camera which I chose to some extent. And I enjoyed framing from the word go. And I compared shooting and results with a colleague whose husband is in to cameras and photography. That was ten years ago and since then I've been taking lots, mostly in India, Iran etc. I moved to digital. It appeals to me. I enjoy being on the Apple and use iphoto.
I'm new on ipernity. I began by uploading a dozen pictures for family. But I have decided to upload a number for general viewing. Maybe the pictures "aint too good", but some of the places and people ought to be of interest, I hope. ( Some time next week).
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
Gmn2001 says:
wollte schon immer mehr über Fotographie wissen. Bestes Weg das meiste zu lernen, ist einfach fotografieren und alles mögliches zu versuchen. Es ist völlig egal, was man aussucht, hauptsache man findet immer etwas schönes/interessantes/bewegliches daran:o)
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
aze.pro says:
hehe.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
GiNa P. replies:
Gut dass das nicht so viele verstehen, hihi...
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Citeobscure says:
Remembering lost places, persons, feelings...
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
Purple T says:
So many reasons!
I love being able to express myself. I can show how i feel, but also show my thoughts.
I love the way you can take a scene and show it as it truly is, or use techniques to show how you see it in your mind. I used to see in b&w all the time, but digital has made me look at the world in colour when taking photos. Now i can choose how i want the world to look.
I love it when i have an idea and can then go out and make the image real.
I love to be able to document a place, or an event. Whether it's my home town, or the countryside, a trip away with friends, or a protest. A photo can capture the moment in a way no other art form can. It doesn't make it better, but it's the that suits me best.
I love the way a photograph can bring back memories, sometimes sad, but also wonderful memories.
I love to look through the lens and see the world differently to how the eye can see without it, and then capture that view.
Photography, like most art, helps us to look at the world around us in a way people often don't. My friend Pixi has said as much after just a few times out with me.

I could ramble on and on, so i'd better stop before i become a bore :-))
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
GiNa P. replies:
Feel free to write as much as you want...
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
Byggvir of Barleypro says:
Not a simple question. But I know now where this question in the editorial of "Chip Foto-Video" comes from.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

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