On 8/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Q. What is the most unusual subject matter you have ever shot? The most
> unique? Or the weirdest? Or simply the subject matter that you have had the
> hardest
> time "capturing" (either because it was hard to get to, or timing, or
> movement, or whatever)?
>
> Please expound.
Well, you know, I thought and I thought and I thought, then I realized
that I don't take photos of unusual subject matter; in fact, I think
it's quite the opposite. I'd have to say that my thing (if I might be
so pretentious as to have a "thing") is shooting the ordinary and
mundane ("the exruciating minutae of everyday life" as Elaine Benis of
Seinfeld once said) in a way that a few might find interesting, unique
or pleasing.
I don't do nekked people (with one exception, see below), don't do sex
stuff (except that one of two ladies kissing - that was pretty hot,
but not really unusual), don't do dead animals, bugs or that sort of
stuff.
I guess that the only unusual thing I've got is a couple of loonies on
a "nature" ride:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3538613&size=lg
I suppose it's unusual in that you don't see it every day. It also
strikes me as potentially dangerous (I would think if you hit a
bump...). Not at all hygenic (I wouldn't want to touch those saddles
- eewwwww!).
As far as hardest to capture, I think just about everything is hard to
capture. I'm never 100% satisfied with any shot I take, and I know
it's hard for some to believe, but I'm constantly trying to improve my
photography (although my definition of "improve" may differ from some
<LOL>.
Now to see what the other 50 or so posts say <g>
cheers,
frank
--
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
