The Ongoing Moment
I'm stuttering my way through this at the moment, after getting it as a birthday present (thanks candace).
Combined with events, it's prompting me to have a good think about my photography. I've taken plenty of pictures in the last six months, but far too many of them are of random street furniture and not of people and events. It comes down to a larger question of what photography is for.
Is it for recording your life and that of those around you, or playing to an audience of peers who also like graffiti and tall buildings? Is posting to Flickr an attempt to get popularity, or to give people a glimpse into the narrative of your life? If it's a balance of the two, where do you strike it?
Certainly I think I have been guilty of taking too many photos "for Flickr" and not enough for the future me. At the moment I'm leaning towards feeling that a bad photo that captures a moment is more important than a good photo of something that someone else will find interesting (or, worse, an excellent photo of something dull). Maybe everyone else has done this all along, but I skew easily.
Sorry if this is all a bit long and rambling for you, but I did want to externalise everything and it felt more relevant here than in some of the other places I could have posted.
The Ongoing Moment
I'm stuttering my way through this at the moment, after getting it as a birthday present (thanks candace).
Combined with events, it's prompting me to have a good think about my photography. I've taken plenty of pictures in the last six months, but far too many of them are of random street furniture and not of people and events. It comes down to a larger question of what photography is for.
Is it for recording your life and that of those around you, or playing to an audience of peers who also like graffiti and tall buildings? Is posting to Flickr an attempt to get popularity, or to give people a glimpse into the narrative of your life? If it's a balance of the two, where do you strike it?
Certainly I think I have been guilty of taking too many photos "for Flickr" and not enough for the future me. At the moment I'm leaning towards feeling that a bad photo that captures a moment is more important than a good photo of something that someone else will find interesting (or, worse, an excellent photo of something dull). Maybe everyone else has done this all along, but I skew easily.
Sorry if this is all a bit long and rambling for you, but I did want to externalise everything and it felt more relevant here than in some of the other places I could have posted.