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Title: what turns you on?
Post by: gricko on March 27, 2006, 08:37:36 PM

i love to go after texture. portraits of less fortunate or elderly.... rocks, grass, rust
and emotion. kids. happy people. sad people..... sun.

but being very shy, have problems interacting with other people i would like to take photos of. lost too many cool shots. how do you take care of that?

Title: Re: what turns you on?
Post by: This-is-damion on March 28, 2006, 09:42:45 AM

tits and ass mainly.  ;D

Title: Re: what turns you on?
Post by: This-is-damion on March 28, 2006, 10:17:55 AM

..although now i feel obliged to provide a more sensible answer.

Photographically speaking i love street photography, love the old classic combo of tri-x in a rangefinder.  or grainy B&W social documentry stuff.    I love the old picture post photographer stuff, northern grime and so on. 

I admit i couldnt do it myself, i guess shyness is a factor (belive it or not)  that is its still alien to me to point a camera in a strangers face, being 6 foot 3 with a shaved head i guess its hard to blend in.

Title: Re: what turns you on?
Post by: Dave_M on March 28, 2006, 11:50:47 AM

Here are a few things that float my boat:
- grain
- texture in b+w (especially sand!)
- water/cloud blur with long exposures
- a nice selenium/sepia tone
- square format

Put them all together and I go weak at the knees  ;)

As for shyness I keep remembering the following quote:

Quote from: Tony Benn

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Title: Re: what turns you on?
Post by: Rogerrr on March 28, 2006, 05:49:17 PM

for me...it's usually trying something new

Title: Re: what turns you on?
Post by: tread on March 30, 2006, 05:52:14 PM

emotion. photographically, always trying to find it...it can be elusive but the hunt, the hunt is a turn on.

Title: Re: what turns you on?
Post by: outofcontxt on March 30, 2006, 10:21:49 PM

It used to be LSD...uh, I think I'm having a flashback as we speak... ;-) but these days it's gritty, grainy black & white, blur (especially at long exposures), urban scenes, square format, oh did I mention blur? :)