What is it about YOUR photography that provides the buzz?

Scott_Quier

People are into photography for a number of reasons.

• The huge money:D
• The overwhelming adulation from "the beautiful people"
• The sense of power realized when a image is manipulated thus alter someone else's sense of reality

But seriously, people are into photography for some reason - what's yours?

Mine?
I'm a card carrying member of RA (Romantics Anonymous) and I get a powerful buzz from the emotions I see expressed by newlyweds. Not so much during the wedding ceremony, but at the reception when they are a little more relaxed. For example

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Then, there also the sense of awe and wonder I feel when I am able to create an image like these:

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So, what is it about photography that gets your heart beating a little faster?

BeemerChef

A photo is a frame only subjected by the eyes. When we are out, almost daily as for example yesterday at the Arches Natl Park, all the senses receive the 360 panoramic display of the Art Work Mother Nature has and still produces daily. Both will never match, but it is always the hope that I will come close to it searching for that "awe" pictures when Lady Luck gives me the opportunity abling me "times" later when between four walls to partially transport myself back to that moment. When "that" happens... well, there is a "buzz"!!!

Funny you ask... I just wrote about it yesterday in my Blog!



Be well... and thanks for asking. Ara & Spirit

Scott_Quier

BeemerChef - WOW!!! That is a truly awesome photo

DonRicklin

Finding that oddball shot than brings a Grin (Dgrin!) as in:


'By the hair of my Chinny Chin Chin!'

Don

claudermilk

For me I guess it's for those rare times when I nail the image I saw in my head. You see the beauty presented before you & attempt to capture it--on occasion it actually works.

First roll of MF film!


The elusive "peak moment shot"

VisualXpressions

Photojournalism is that long lost passion I didn't pursue when I retired from the US Navy in 2004... The below shot gave me the greatest feeling when it was published on the cover of Leatherneck magazine... So my buzz comes from seeing my work published or printed and framed and hanging somewhere for people to enjoy...

Winston

Awais Yaqub

I do it for one thing that is

To make someday such a photo that will hang in some museum and my name enters history.

TPBinKC

VisualXpressions wrote:

Photojournalism is that long lost passion I didn't pursue when I retired from the US Navy in 2004... The below shot gave me the greatest feeling when it was published on the cover of Leatherneck magazine... So my buzz comes from seeing my work published or printed and framed and hanging somewhere for people to enjoy...

Winston

OOORAH!!!

Nice shot!

I probably read that issue.

TPBinKC

Awais Yaqub wrote:

I do it for one thing that is

To make someday such a photo that will hang in some museum and my name enters history.

If one of your shots does not end up in a museum, I will be surprised. i have seen many of yours in the contests and elsewhere that are already classics to me.

ChatKat

Why?
When I capture an image and I have finished reviewing the day's bounty and I have nailed most of them - with good lighting and composition and not needing any PS (except the usual color, sharpening and maybe a small crop) it's the thrill of victory that set's my heart a flutter (and if I miss it's the agony of defeat). The challenge of success - from 1/2 way around the world or in my very own studio:

Honfleur, France 2006 - copyright, Kathy Rappaport


Woodland Hills, California - Riley (1 week) and Chris (Dad)

Scott_Quier

ChatKat wrote:

Honfleur, France 2006 - copyright, Kathy Rappaport

Kathy,

Nice photo! Love the light on this one. It's almost as if the sun came out from behind a cloud to light just that one area near the center. Very cool.

And, I agree about the thrill of victory - though I seem to experience the agony of defeat so much more often

ChatKat

Scott_Quier wrote:

Kathy,

Nice photo! Love the light on this one. It's almost as if the sun came out from behind a cloud to light just that one area near the center. Very cool.

And, I agree about the thrill of victory - though I seem to experience the agony of defeat so much more often

Thanks, Scott - it's one of my all time favorites. I've hesitated putting it up because of the theft factor. Yes, I understand that agony of defeat but in reality it's raret now that I have about 75% as keepers and maybe more than that. I stopped Spraying and Praying and have become a bit more deliberate with my shooting.