Reply #1 - February 22, 2008, 01:23:54 PM
Wow, thanks for sharing.
Honestly, before I clicked the link I was thinking it was going to a list of things that people take pictures of all the time like "the beach" or the "Taj Mahal". I was so pleasantly surprised when the first two things listed are things I strive to do with every picture, but I am not sure I have succeded yet. After that the list sort of went off on that travel-the-world tangent, until it got to the last four. I can honestly say I have photographed Love. I also shoot weddings, there are a few pictures that really stand out in my mind that are more evocative of love than any others I have taken. I think love is easy to capture though, between a mother and new baby, between two older people that have been married for a long time, between best friends.... I think lust is harder to capture. It's much more fleeting. Although it's probably not appropriate to capture at a wedding I have seen some done in taste. Namely an image I saw of Roberts a long time ago, it was staged, I am sure but it still captured a moment, it was on a pool table (how cliche, lol).
Anyway, my list of 12 would be so different. I have no desire to travel to remote areas to photograph things that have already been captured much better than what I believe I can do. That's why I don't shoot non-people subjects. Although a person will be photographed many times in their life it's always at different stages and events. I get to be the lucky one that captures their wedding, or senior portraits, or the family picture when grandma was still alive, or right after the baby was born.
It is really interesting to read articles like this and examine why we photograph what we do. Some people may look down on wedding photographers, but it's my passion, and things like this make me realize why it is.
Logged
