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03/10/2004 12:58:50 AM · #1 |
Hello all,
'TOURIST PHOTOS' or 'PHOTO TOURISM' ?
I think this is a good argument...on an amateur level where one casually takes pictures while travelling or when one actually travels on the lookout for good pictures. i belong to the latter group.
Though not a professional, I love to travel, hoping I can get some good pictures and video...is there anone like me out there...?!?
Message edited by author 2004-03-10 06:00:03. |
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03/10/2004 01:03:18 AM · #2 |
| everyone who travels is like you! |
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03/10/2004 01:10:48 AM · #3 |
| absolutely not 'unknowndeath'...i have travelled extensively, and 99% of the people who have travelled with me are not like that. most dont give a hoot about taking pictures, and the ones who do, absolutely dont bother composing a good picture... |
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03/10/2004 02:13:45 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by nidhi:
absolutely not 'unknowndeath'...i have travelled extensively, and 99% of the people who have travelled with me are not like that. most dont give a hoot about taking pictures, and the ones who do, absolutely dont bother composing a good picture... |
I agree here. I just came back form a trip to the Bahamas, and 8 of 10 people I met there did not even bring a camera. I, on the other hand, would never dream of going on a trip without my camera. In fact, most trisp I take are for the express purpose of taking photos.
Barbara
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03/10/2004 03:07:21 AM · #5 |
Untill recently I´ve been making Tourist Photos, that is I´ve brought my litle 35mm camera wiht me when traveling and shot some snapshots of interesting places and the people I´m traveling with. But since I got into digital I´ve started to think more about what I´m doing and recently I´ve been going places just to look for spot to shoot at.
So you can say that I´m converting from TOURIST PHOTO to PHOTO TOURISM. |
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03/11/2004 01:57:38 AM · #6 |
| Do you have to have a camera to take a picture damn I hope the world has more people with more understand that the photograph isn't conceived on in a camera but in the mind. If you think it you see it then you will photograph it and it will stay in your mind. First its in your head that you compose and make and image long before you think about it in a camera. You don't need to take your camera to still have photograph sure you need one if your going to show detailed views of your space otherwise its lock in you head or you might draw it out but still if your good at drawing a completed scene you are rendering the photograph in your mind. If you want to speak of tangible evidence such as a print or a digital file sure your right not ever. what garlic has brought up is something more like she had a camera which many people do and she just went places and snapped things for whatever reason sentimental now she is going out to those or other places with a purpose in mind of making the photographs you want to know what that makes Garlic an artist someone who is trying to see things in a different way make sure she is come clean with her ideas and not just shooting random shit! I commend her on this new achievement in her work. |
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03/11/2004 02:37:55 AM · #7 |
There are those who take photographs purely for their memory-jogging properties, to help them look back at and recall the details of their wonderful trip. All power to them.
There are those who don't take any photographs at all, either because they are not into taking or looking at them, or perhaps because they find that taking photographs lessens their ability to enjoy the experiences themselves, or maybe because they just aren't very good at it.
There are those who take photographs to sell for use in guidebooks, magazines, newspaper articles etc. I.e. not necessarily for their own pleasure, though that may play into it also.
And there are those who take photographs for the same reasons as the first group I've identified but also strive to look for pleasing compositions, textures, colours, details etc because it's satisfying to produce beautiful images as well as memory-joggers.
I fall into the latter group myself but don't feel superiour about my choices.
I would also disagree a little with unknowndeath's opinion - that you can take a photograph in your mind. I'd agree that you can create an image in your mind, a picture that you can always refer back to, an internal record of a scene that pleases.
However, given that "photograph" refers to an image recorded by a camera and reproduced in one of a number of formats - I don't think one can take a photograph in one's mind, though one often plans it there before taking it...
:0)
Message edited by author 2004-03-11 07:47:25.
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03/11/2004 03:16:04 AM · #8 |
| Then I am a very strange person kavey because I remember things as a photograph in my head. Tell me a place to go or want to know a place that I have been I can give you a direct photograph of it from my head. Because I make the photograph there something that is redeeming and something that will stay there until I am dead. Sometimes when the moment is most powerful that is when I have to share it with the world. I do not fit into either of the catergories you have filled out as to who photographs I make lots and lots of pictures I spend time sometimes 6 hours a day wondering around the city day and night to make photographs to find the beauty or to work with a model. I don't make books or other things I just make art and I keep it to myself because I love art. I love the city I love the night especially. I have recently in the last 4 months taken over 2,000 images that doesn't include what I took over the last 2 years for my body of work that I am still working on. I know there are people who think photography as just being there job somewhere they lost the joy in it and just lethargically reproduce duality from reality but that is not myself. I love to find love nature beauty as odd as anything most don't understand what they are looking at but look at the shapes of things the colors the oddities that form the pecular beauty that lurks in every destined corner. Oh well that is life that is the light of life. |
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03/11/2004 03:18:24 AM · #9 |
I don't think you're strange at all - I would simply say that you use the word "photograph" where I would replace it with "image" or "picture", since, to me, the word photograph is a very specific term that refer to the act of recording an image with a camera.
To remember something as a fixed image in one's head isn't strange, I do it too and I'm sure many others do also. I also remember smells and tastes and sounds too...
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03/11/2004 04:50:09 AM · #10 |
my camera goes with me everywhere, well not "everywhere" but darn close to it.
in a 4 day getaway I can come back with 1200 pics about 100 or so are good keepers.
Im going on a little camping trip this Sunday for a few days to a place I went last year and some how I mangaed to delete all my pics from that trip, so I have to reshoot everything....but luckily I did have a few pics printed out from that trip so all is not lost.
James
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03/11/2004 05:40:15 AM · #11 |
| All I know is that everytime I go on a family vacation, my wife complains that 95% of the pictures don't have her or, more importantly, our daughters in them. |
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03/11/2004 06:13:34 AM · #12 |
Compared to a lot of the people here, I really am a crap photographer.
I don't really know what I am doing in regards to exposure and lighting and focal length, blah blah.
But luckily, with todays technology, I don't have to.
But anyway, I take my camera with me to most "events" that I go to, whether it is a baseball game, a birthday party, a night down the pub or even just round a friends house.
All the people concerned with the "event" love to see the pictures of themselves and their friends when I put them up on the website.
But I find that I miss a lot of what is actually going on because I am looking at the LCD screen, especially at sporting events.
So I guess that makes me a photo tourist(?)
Also I amazed at the number of people who don't have cameras.
Even a disposable 35mm camera can take fairly decent pictures.
And they are so cheap.
I've been to kids birthday parties where even the parents haven't had a camera.
I'm the only person there with a camera and I don't even like the kid.
Luckily for them, I like taking pictures!!! |
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03/11/2004 12:47:22 PM · #13 |
Firdt week of April planing to travel to take photos of beautiful landscapes.
Arkansas,New Mexico,Arizona and Colorado!
So,if you are on my way let's get together for a beer ! :-) |
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03/11/2004 02:49:14 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by garlic:
Untill recently I´ve been making Tourist Photos, that is I´ve brought my litle 35mm camera wiht me when traveling and shot some snapshots of interesting places and the people I´m traveling with. But since I got into digital I´ve started to think more about what I´m doing and recently I´ve been going places just to look for spot to shoot at.
So you can say that I´m converting from TOURIST PHOTO to PHOTO TOURISM. |
Ditto! I always used to take a small 35mm just for snapshots. But now when I do go on trips, I think of all the exciting things I could photograph more than what I will be doing (generally). I like to remove myself and find a good slot of time for myself to find some good photo opportunities. My family thinks I'm crazy. To me, that translates into I am a photo tourist. |
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03/12/2004 12:51:03 AM · #15 |
Before DPC= turn on, click, move on. Snapshot city ;(
After DPC= wade through the water and climb the statue to get the shot ;) |
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