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What is your most favourite/ least favourite subject to photograph?
Forgiss:
good grief? favourite? we can have a favourite?
Man, as long as I am shooting... who cares!?!?
I have to confess that I think the most dificult is children (have no illusion friends... newborn babies are just not lying still!!!)
The most challenging is weddings... You can't interfere or move people arround too much, you start with an editorial style, switch to glamour for dressing up, switch to fashion for pre ceremony, swith to editorial for ceremony (with some fine art thrown in for good measure) then back to family photographer for the families and groups, and so on and so forth. The whole while you need to make the crapiest locations look like fairytale castles!
You have to have the patience and steady hand of a wild life photographer, for low light shooting, and catching just the right moment
You have to have the speed, agility and responses of a sports photographer to catch the frigging flower girls and other general action.
You have too carry all of your equipment like a Yak
and you have to smile and be creative for the better part of 12-16 hours on a day
(it also helps if you can do Crisis Management, and therefor, I can do a mean hairdo, have done a make-up course, can sew wedding gear (or my better solution = staplegun), know which calming meds doesn't go well with Champagne, can drive, carry extra sweets for difficult ring bearers (aged 3) and extra sunblock for hung over best men. I can also tie a straight, windsor or bowtie, and used to carry extra packs of batteries/film for when the mother of the bride run out, and an extra medium size black belt (worked into the cost of the wedding beforehand) for the groom/best man/father of the bride...
... Man I love stock!
Susan:
I guess I am still evolving at a photographer... I change my mind frequently. I love landscapes because I love to be outdoors. Would love to try my hand at some real sports photography. I am working on honing my studio skills now and plan on starting to learn how to work with people in the next few months.
I am with Sean... I just love everything about photography... I love that there is so much to learn.
travismanley:
I did some photos of a friends 3 month old baby and I thought it was going to be a nightmare, but it was actually really easy. The baby just laid there quietly and let me snap off photo after photo. I shot it for about two hours and she didn't get cranky up until the very end of the shoot. Great learning experience!
realdealphoto:
Oh I don't think there can be any doubt that I prefer to shoot beautiful women. Preferably under studio conditions but outdoors is fun too. I also love to shoot editorial style street life and love to take long photo walks in places like the Venice Beach boardwalk and capture the life I see through a 400mm lens.
My least favorite and really the only thing I actually refuse to shoot is Weddings, for all the reasons Sean listed. It simply is not my cup of tea.
Forgiss:
--- Цитата: travismanley от Ноября 27, 2007, 12:44:24 am ---The baby just laid there quietly and let me snap off photo after photo. I shot it for about two hours and she didn't get cranky up until the very end of the shoot.
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what did you feed that baby?!?
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