Mine is post. I almost hate any changes in post so I try to avoid any adjustments. I'm getting better at it, but I really need to get used to making more changes after I take the picture.
I'd say I lack equipment but then I'd be a liar. In capable hands, my camera could do some amazing things. What I really lack is the skill, vision, and practice to get a good shot more than 5% of the time.
Time, and thus creativity. Creativity doesn't come easily to me, but if I had time, I could make do with what I have.
That and personality. I need to get into the right mentality to start thinking that I am a photographer and I need to have that confidence to go out, shoot random things without looking like a total idiot in full gear, and be better at asking to set up shots, etc.
Creativity and personality... not two traits you want to lack if you're getting into photography as a business...
I feel like I'm also lacking creativity. When I have a lot of time, or I come up with something immediately, I can have a very creative idea. However, when I don't have an idea immediately, I can't get anything.
For the mechanical shot, I wanted badly to tear the back off a watch to get a shot of the gears inside. I couldn't get the back off of any of the watches I own, and I crumbled all the way down to the same bike gears three of us came up with.
Your computer shake was brilliant, and your dead-tree-in-live-tree shot was great. Prime's zombie DIMMs were awesome; reyrey's iMac shot and marushka's missing arm were both incredibly clever. I don't feel like I've had a brilliant idea yet for this.
T.B.H., I think that might be a weakness of the 'picture-a-day' schedule. I really haven't been super-satisfied with the creativeness of anything but the computer shake picture. I got the idea for that one well in advance and was really excited to take it. I think there's advantages to requiring pictures every day, but once you have a cool idea for a theme well in advance, you'll come up with something really cool.
I have a tendency to over-process. I also get way too ambitious with my photo ideas and then cheap out because it's either too complicated or too involved.
Man, i dont know where to begin. I like being creative, but if I dont have an idea i think is cool, then i dont have a picture i want to take. I want to be able to make pictures just aesthetically interesting and beautiful, and I dont know how to do that. I love telling stories with pictures, but if the task was to take a picture that just looks rad, i have no clue where to begin. It seems like all of you guys have the ability to just take gorgeous and simple pictures. I think that takes a lot more vision than i have and I would like to be able to look at a scene and see how to set up the shot. There is a lot to learn before I start to blame my point-and-shoot.
Maybe that's just what she looks like Prime. As for my weakness... no camera.
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BlackHawkBible music connoisseurThere's no place like 127.0.0.1Icrontian
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Composition and creativity. I envy those people that could see a rusty nail and just take an awesome shot. I have no creativity whatsoever. If the shot is there I can take it but if I have to create one, I'm SOL. Not just with photography but with drawing and everything else. Just how I am.
Time is a weakness of mine (hence why I haven't even contributed yet ) but that's arbitrary, and doesn't count.
My biggest weakness? People. I HATE shooting portraits, or any other work that involves people.
My favorite shoots are when I walk alone at night and shoot long exposure of buildings, landscapes, trees, whatever. I love natural and man made beauty found isolated, it's generally where my strongest photography reveals itself.
I'm an introvert, and I'm shy around people. Shooting people I know is hard enough, shooting people I don't know (even if it's a freelance gig) is next to impossible for me.
Funny, my job at the studio is doing exactly that - shooting people. Video or not, it's still photography, and it's still my weakness.
Composition and creativity. I envy those people that could see a rusty nail and just take an awesome shot. I have no creativity whatsoever. If the shot is there I can take it but if I have to create one, I'm SOL. Not just with photography but with drawing and everything else. Just how I am.
I think you're more creative than you give yourself credit for. The shots you've submitted to the challenge have been very well composed.
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BlackHawkBible music connoisseurThere's no place like 127.0.0.1Icrontian
edited July 2009
Learning about the rule of thirds is probably what helped me the most. Right now I'm blocked with finding something to shoot at. I do feel I am a bit limited by my lens but I can't use that as an excuse. In the end I'll probably try and find a lizard or lay on the floor and try to get a shot of my dogs.
I am going to say that I have no training at all in photography, but this section of the forum is making me want to learn. I have a Canon XSi that I bought mainly to take photos of my two kids I am going to learn the manual settings on the camera first. As time allows, I will try to participate in the photo a day. Just be kind, I am new to this We should start a thread of best photography web resources. Things like personal favorite tips and tricks, etc.
My weakness is definitely in post. I know how to crop and scale and know the two GIMP filters that will correct for bad white balance on my camera and improve the dynamic range. I have no idea how to do anything creative in post.
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I'm thinking about taking a photography class next year, though. Because you jerks have got me wanting to.
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I lack the whole package really.... one might say I'm the complete package of fail.
That and personality. I need to get into the right mentality to start thinking that I am a photographer and I need to have that confidence to go out, shoot random things without looking like a total idiot in full gear, and be better at asking to set up shots, etc.
Creativity and personality... not two traits you want to lack if you're getting into photography as a business...
Your computer shake was brilliant, and your dead-tree-in-live-tree shot was great. Prime's zombie DIMMs were awesome; reyrey's iMac shot and marushka's missing arm were both incredibly clever. I don't feel like I've had a brilliant idea yet for this.
Just keep pushing forward, I guess.
Wait... is this about photography?
My biggest weakness? People. I HATE shooting portraits, or any other work that involves people.
My favorite shoots are when I walk alone at night and shoot long exposure of buildings, landscapes, trees, whatever. I love natural and man made beauty found isolated, it's generally where my strongest photography reveals itself.
I'm an introvert, and I'm shy around people. Shooting people I know is hard enough, shooting people I don't know (even if it's a freelance gig) is next to impossible for me.
Funny, my job at the studio is doing exactly that - shooting people. Video or not, it's still photography, and it's still my weakness.
I think you're more creative than you give yourself credit for. The shots you've submitted to the challenge have been very well composed.
-drasnor