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Choosing a subject for photography can be easy or hard. Many people choose their family members as subjects, and leave it at that. Others have a passion for something else -- nature, travel, flowers, wildlife, children, sunsets, pet animals, architecture, ghost towns, .... and follow their passion with their camera; some even follow town to town and country to country.
What inspires YOU to pick up your camera?
Here are a few links to images that inspire me:
Necedah National Wildlife Refuge - Peace on Earth http://www.pbase.com/marke/image/21584476
http://www.pbase.com/mardoli/windowsills and many other of her galleries...
Street photography - taught me that photos don't need technical perfection to communicate ...
Daniella's work, among others, inspired me to try digital infrared --
The perfect capture of the perfect moment --
Portraits
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I find it very odd that I work with photos literally hours every day, yet I haven't touched my poor camera in months. I wondered how many active photographers we actually have here at RP?
To celebrate our new "Photography" forum, I thought I'd post a poll and find out.At least weekly63.01%46Monthly at best17.81%13Hardly ever, if at all6.85%5I make my living taking photographs every day12.33%909-21-2006, 02:14 PM -
I'm getting interested in Photography (non digital right now) and I have a couple questions some of you might be able to answer:
1. can anybody recommend some good photography books for a newbie? I'm looking for books that explain about how to use manual settings on a camera, how to compose...09-21-2002, 10:36 PM -
Hello,
I've been recently asked to moderate an online art community. One of the tasks I am dealing with is to define the difference between a photograph and a manipulation. Of course, obvious manipulation is easy to define, but what about subtle manipulation where it's not so easily detectable....11-08-2005, 09:11 AM -
So here we are, it’s fall, ski season is around the corner and summer is just a memory now. The trees are bare, having dropped their multi-colored leaves, and on a daily basis I have been processing and printing photos of dead animals…trophies of ecstatic hunters. As these rights of fall slowly...11-17-2007, 02:53 PM
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Well I have now got a better camera for those who wish to know it is a fuji finepix s5800 and has come in at my usual budget of not paying more than £100 for a camera
This has come about as over at least the last 3 months i have been experimenting more and more with my camera and learning...06-07-2008, 12:42 PM
Inspiration comes from many directions....my first love is flowers....insects...landscapes and sea shores...towns and cities...people but not so much..In that order...
As we get beautiful sunrise and sunsets in the winter time(weather permitting of course)...I just have to see the sky with lovely colors and i am up and running out with my camera....
For my flowers today i have bought some at the market in Stockholm...want to play with my new macro lens and lens baby...
As i travel to work...it takes just over an hour to get there as we live out in the Islands...I see so many lovely photos that i cant take...since my interest has grown i certainly look at everything in a creative way....So i guess the answer to your question is...EVERYTHING!!!!
Patricia.........
I can imagine that you are truly surrounded by magical photo opportunities in your area - whatever your personal preferences.