What type of photographer

**kat** · 02-19-2009, 12:27 PM

I sit there and think of what I want out of photography. What would be my dream. What would satisfy me and make me think that, I have done it.

Is it a published photo, a contest winnner, a wedding shoot. What is/was yours? Do you even have one?

And what do you prefer to shoot? Should one just stick with nature shots and others to portraits. Can one have a great eye for both? I look through magazines and see images from photographers and in general..their shots are of one genre.

What makes you the most fustrated about photography?

**Iguanasan** · 02-19-2009, 12:32 PM

I would suggest to you that most of us are more interested in the journey than the destination.

I take photographs of whatever moves me at the moment.

What frustrates me is when my photograph does not look the same as I saw it in my mind's eye.

**tirediron** · 02-19-2009, 12:40 PM

What do I want? The photograph that records the moment I saw. What frustrates me the most? Not being able to capture that moment as I saw it.

**merman** · 02-20-2009, 05:06 PM

photography for me is progression, constently trying to better myslef, and take better and better shots....
what i want is to continue to learn and to keep shooting,
what frustrates me is, hmmmmm ill have to get back to you on that one

**jjeling** · 02-20-2009, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by Iguanasan

I would suggest to you that most of us are more interested in the journey than the destination.

I take photographs of whatever moves me at the moment.

What frustrates me is when my photograph does not look the same as I saw it in my mind's eye.

You could not have said this much better IG. This has been my approach since day one with my camera.

That leads right into what Merman said,

Originally Posted by merman

photography for me is progression, constently trying to better myslef, and take better and better shots....
what i want is to continue to learn and to keep shooting,
what frustrates me is, hmmmmm ill have to get back to you on that one

I would like to continue expanding the creative side of photography through seldom used techniques and practices. Progressing through situations in photography and life simultaneously to tell a life long story through pictures. To continue a lifestyle as an artist, but take the measures necessary to provide an income for myself, whether its a wedding gig, or a 9-5.

The frustrating parts with a camera and without a camera parallel each other. Not being fully prepared/having the proper equipment, dead batteries, or missing knowledge about a subject are the most frustrating things about photography/life.