Anonymous
Why photography?

At first, when I heard of people being into photography, pic was related.

but after seeing some beautiful shots, i'm starting to see the parallels between poetry and photography. You have to go through thousands of pictures to find one good photograph, but once you do.. it's inspiring

So, i'm no photography, but i'm curious.. What inspires you to take pictures? Why photography instead of writing or painting? PLZ TELL ME
>> Anonymous
Photography is fast, simple, and easy. All you do is press the shutter button once all the settings are correct. It takes like half a second and you can get over 1000 pictures in one day. With writing and painting, you spend months working on a single piece of work.
>> Anonymous
i dont like writing and i dont have the skill to draw/paint. i like to take pictures to capture moments. i like candid portraits because it feels like i can capture a point in time when they arent posing and stuff.
>> Anonymous
Why writing or painting instead of photography? Same thing.
>> Inanimate !3dXYfvdbBk
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I don't paint/draw because I can't.

I write music, and I photograph.

I like photography because photographs are intensely nostalgic for me. I'm not as much into the "Oh, WOW! That photo is AWESOME because it's brightly colored/something insane is happening/photograph of a person"

I'm into almost everything else, however.
>> Inanimate !3dXYfvdbBk
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Also, fuck this guy. I use film and when you're on my budget you go through about 36-72 pictures a month.
>> Serenar !m827jEgWi.
I started taking pictures because I was too shit to write or to draw.

Then I realized that photography is even harder. Sure you can point your camera at things and whack the shutter but it takes titanic skill to put as much meaning into a photo as a poem or short story, because most of the time you don't have much control over the shit in your photo. This is why 99% of "street" sucks, and "but HCB did it" isn't a good defense for shitty street photography. He actually could make some sense out of the world he was shooting, and even he fucked up zillions of times. Maybe I'm just picky.

But I kept at it because I'm gay for gear <3