Photographers? how it affects your shooting?

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Anyone like/do this for a living?

Where can I post pics ?

Does a camera and lens help keep you "safe" ?

Mine feel like a reason to be where I am.

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I was a "professional amateur" photog for a couple of years, ending last year. I was a very driven amateur who invested in equipment and shot constantly. I started making money from my photos and I loved it. But eventually, AFTER I started a photography business, I realized I lacked the social skills to make it work so I closed down my business rather abruptly. I still regret it, and that is one of the reasons I'm seeking a diagnosis and help with my social skills deficits. I would love nothing more than to be a successful professional photog, but like I said with the social skills problems I have, I just can't make it right now.

I got hooked on it at one time an took classes in college from a well known pro from Sunset Magazine. He told me I wasn't going to be very good becasue I see details and not entire compositions but I was very good in the dark room and doing special effects, also much better doing cinema than still.
I do like the camera as a 'dustance stick.

You can post in various Art related threads found all over these boards.

I learned to compose shots using the rule of thirds, but I always had a problem with shooting "outside the box". I couldn't see abstract things that other photogs I knew could see, I only saw what was immediately visible, and was no good at experimenting with abstract perspectives. I get dizzy when looking at all the tilted shots so many photogs seem to do these days, so it didn't bother me that I couldn't think in an abstract manner.

I became interested in photography mostly BECAUSE of my then-undiagnosed AS....I was given a crappy little camera for my 6th birthday, and knowing I had a tendency to look at the world differently to the way other people did, I set out to try and show them how I saw things. I became addicted pretty quickly, and haven't stopped since

So far as posing your photos online, there are plenty of places to do that, but just watch out....people steal others' work and claim it as their own. It happened to me quite a few times.

I was never interested in Photography before, but a year ago it became one of my special interests to take photos of Jerusalem scenes. I think Jerusalem is amazing to photograph, with the 3 religions living so crowded together. The contrasts are thrilling. I go almost every weekend. I have 1,000 photos now. Unfortunately, I can't afford a course in the technical aspects, so I study from the web, alone. My photos are not good from a technical point of view, but the subject matter and composition are very interesting.

Oh yeah I had that happen a lot. In fact I was so good at writing my own (faux) legal documents, I drafted my own "cease and decist" letters every time this happened to me. I had one large media company backpedalling big-time upon receiving my letter, and they ended up agreeing to my terms and paying me what I told them they owed me for the amount of time they infringed on my copyrights.

As a photographer I would highly recommend anyone who does not have their copyrights registered to do so. It is relatively cheap, and I believe now you can even do it online... in the US, anyway. You technically already own the copyright as soon as you click the shutter, but if you want a court to side with you and actually award you monetary damages in an infringement case, you must have a registered copyright. Fortunately for me, as I said, I can write a very mean legal document, so I have never had to take that extra step and go to court over infringement.

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It's relatively easy to register your rights to your work online, and certainly worth the time to do so. My biggest mistake in having my work jacked by other people was assuming everyone else to be as honest as I am.

I love photography, but find it really hard to take my coamera outside. I'm always worried that people will onject to having a camera pointed at them, even if they just happen to be in a street scene, for example. I think it stemmed from when I was at university, taking pics at a party, and someone got a bit annoyed and told me to put that effing camera away.

I have a beautiful DSLR with a very expensive lens and a couple of digital compacts, but looking at my pics on the computer, they're nearly all taken indoors.

If anyone has any tips on how to overcome this fear, I and I'm sure many others would appreciate them. It's a shame to have this interest and a modicum of skill only to take 300 pictures of your front room!

I want to see a few specific people reply to this one, just because I know of a few photographers that use this site.

I have done it for a living several times, but I was just in it for the darkroom. Working alone in near to total darkness was great for me, and drove other people crazy.

I kept it as a hobby, a 35mm and drugstore prints, keeping it portable.

A few years ago I went digital, and obsession is the word. Now I print fine art Giclee, large format, 310 g/m2 100% cotton paper, inks that will last hundreds of years, I also print canvas, and soon textiles.

It started as something to go with desktop publishing, cheaper to do pictures myself, but this is an emerging field with range. I got very good, but it is just one of too many hobby obsessions I have.

Hanging out in the background, selling on the internet, did pay for it all.

I have developed a process to make prints for painters that is superior.

I take photos (a.k.a. my icons) but I would hesitate to call myself a photographer. I don't think I actually spend enough time on it to merit that title. And I hate the technical side of it; I love the purely artistic side (the arrangement, the ideas, the capturing of the image and moment), but I spend zero time on any technical editing or camera settings or that sort of thing.

Pretty much, I take my mum's digital camera, go outside, and spend an entire day thinking up new and interesting ways to photograph parts of myself juxtaposed with nature. Generally I take about 600 pics, then spend a long time selecting and deleting until I end up with a desirable few.

As far as how AS affects my photography; I love looking at ordinary everyday things people would normally pass by (such as leaves and flowers) up close, and the way in which that simple object can become a vast detailed world when magnified. It's like, by photographing something up close, I capture the magic hidden world that other people don't see because they never stop and really look at the intricacy and beauty of the things around them. I also take photos to try and capture my own essence, I suppose it is in part self fascination, fascination with my hidden self, my true self, that other people don't see (not because I hide it from them, but because they're blind to it).

I think I had a far superior explanation of my photographs in my y12 Visual Art diary.

Call yourself a photographic artist then, I have only seen your avatars, but they are beautiful, and given a place to see them online, I would love to see more of your work.

Unfortunately I'd have to conquer my profound disinterest with technology first, in order to take the time to set up a website.

Don't make one, find a site that will host your images as a part of your profile, like facebook, and leave it specificly for your photos, and keep it limited to those you want to show.