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Looking back at photos

Mon Sep 1, 2008, 7:31 PM
It sure seems to be a state of mind in photography with some sort of saturation of your senses when you actually capture some images.

What do I mean by this?

Here is the observation.

I take photos and do my normal thing and look at them. I like some shots more than others. The usual thing.

Months later, sometimes I look at them again and think. "Wow, I really like that. Why didn't I like it before?"

Could it be like a movie that you have watched seven times, not only getting sick of it, but seeing all the defects?

Does that happen with photos when you are taking them?

When you study a photo hard, trying to achieve that shot, does it just play out your senses till you are sick of it and just focus on the defects?

I'm thinking that actually might be the case.

If so, the trick is to make you mind see the photo as fresh no matter how much time you spent dwelling on it and photographing it.

Maybe this is an artists gift....

Other than taking some mind altering drug or hiding my photos for months, I don't know how to do it.

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~freyja1984 Sep 2, 2008, 2:18:49 AM
Sounds about right. Sometimes concentrating on a certain result makes you ignore all other aspects of the piece just because you're so focused on getting that ONE thing you set out to achieve.

Good to see you around Mr. Sexymouth. You've been missed.

--
Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done.
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=fangbooks Sep 3, 2008, 8:24:14 AM
I just did this with some of my photos...I went back through them and couldn't imagine WHY I didn't like them and/or post them at the time I took them.

I know for me, some of it is being comfortable with what I'm showing in the picture, since mine are usually of my body. There was a time where if a photo showed certain parts of my body, it would NOT be seen by anyone but me. Now I'm a lot more lenient and comfortable with showing those parts. The parts that may have been "defects" back when I took it aren't anymore.

But it almost sounds like you are saying 2 different things - 1, that looking at a particular photograph too many times may allow you to see the defects more than the whole of the photo; and 2, that photographing a particular SUBJECT too many times may allow you to see the defects as well and not get the shot you are looking for because nothing looks right.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with putting photos away and coming back to them months later to look at them with a new eye.

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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
-Anais Nin

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

But who am I?
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~lidarman Sep 4, 2008, 8:04:42 PM
"I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with putting photos away and coming back to them months later to look at them with a new eye."

I think we should do it.
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=fangbooks Sep 4, 2008, 8:09:54 PM
I think we do it with photos and with people too. Probably everything in life to some extent.

I definitely think we should. Set a date on the calendar.

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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
-Anais Nin

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.

But who am I?
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=fangbooks Oct 22, 2008, 1:27:15 PM
Has it been long enough? I went back through some of my "older" photos the other day...at the expense of editing my newer photos. Sigh...there's never enough time, is there?

BTW, your WRIAD photos rock Richard. Absolutely beautiful.

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"You taste like tear stains and coulda beens but I love a good train wreck."
--She Wants Revenge
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