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Photography can be a very emotional thing especially when you have made something of real beauty,you know when its so perfect,everything has combined to produce that proud moment.I have come very very close to tears seeing a couple of perfectly beautiful photos recently.

Have you ever cried over one of your creations.

If you could be so kind to share your experience at some time.

My work involves a lot of photography of a sporting nature,I know how many I take and the effort that goes into them, I guess it becomes more emotional knowing I will be presenting that perfection to the person featured.

Thanks and Regards

Roger.
 
Nikonicon said:
Welcome

Photography can be a very emotional thing especially when you have made something of real beauty,you know when its so perfect,everything has combined to produce that proud moment.
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Either you are a vastly better photographer than most of the ones I know or you are seeing 'perfection' in your work because you are involved in it.
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I have come very very close to tears seeing a couple of perfectly beautiful photos recently.

Have you ever cried over one of your creations.
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Nope! Pretty sure it's never happened. Sometimes an old picture might trigger memories, but a 'beautiful' picture as such (mine or anyone else's) has never done that
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If you could be so kind to share your experience at some time.
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Sorry, wish I could.
Nikonicon said:
My work involves a lot of photography of a sporting nature,I know how many I take and the effort that goes into them, I guess it becomes more emotional knowing I will be presenting that perfection to the person featured.
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I don't think I've ever achieved 'perfection' in 55 years of using cameras.
 
I'm afraid not. I've been extremely excited and/or pleased with a few of my shots and I might feel a bit emotional about the circumstances of someone in the photo, but no.































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Great shots - is #4 a bleve? I would have run like a hare.
 
Until becoming a grandparent, I've never actually shed a tear over a photo. But some of the best candid shots of our granddaughter have gotten the eyes burning just a bit. Beyond the merit of the photos per se, there's my emotional attachment to the subject. For me, that's the big tug on the heart. Add a sprinkling of realizing my own mortality in it all.

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At the Halloween Party
 
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There is an iconic photo from Vancouver, British Columbia, taken during World War II as troops marched off down a street to the rail-head for destinations east. A little boy breaks away from his mother and runs to clutch the extended hand of his soldier-father who is looking back with a smile. The amusement is reflected on the faces of the soldiers trailing behind the father. It is a beautiful and evocative image if you are a veteran, as I am, and if you are a father and a husband.

The soldier returned to join his family in time. Many did not.
 
#4 is the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco exploding into flames on the day the FBI finally decided to take the compound. Mass suicide by a religious cult.
 
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#4 is the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco exploding into flames on the day the FBI finally decided to take the compound. Mass suicide by a religious cult.
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Or mass extermination by an out of control government.

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Not the first time a 'cult' has been attacked by the Feds:

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Nikonicon said:
Welcome

Photography can be a very emotional thing especially when you have made something of real beauty,you know when its so perfect,everything has combined to produce that proud moment.I have come very very close to tears seeing a couple of perfectly beautiful photos recently.

Have you ever cried over one of your creations.

If you could be so kind to share your experience at some time.

My work involves a lot of photography of a sporting nature,I know how many I take and the effort that goes into them, I guess it becomes more emotional knowing I will be presenting that perfection to the person featured.

Thanks and Regards
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There was one photo of my daughter that i had lots of emotional connection to. still have after years.

here is a link to it.

http://1x.com/photo/6825

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Some of the parents of the kids we shoot have come to us saying that they got all teary eyed seeing our slide shows . . .

My wife and I, for the past couple of years, have volunteered taking pictures of the girls at my daughters' gymnastics club.

At the end of the year, we put together a slide show to play at the year end banquet. And many of these pictures end up in a club yearbook.

Some of the parents have come to us and told us that they were teary eyed as they watched the video.

One of the mother's told us that her daughter is at gymnastics more than they are with her. As she put it . . . There's school and then there's gymnastics. And what ever time is left over is for the parents. Because my wife and I get to roam the gym and get pictures from the floor, we get to capture the behind the scenes life that the parents don't get to see. As the mother put it, she finally got to see a big part of her daughter's life that she had been missing.

And I always remember that.

Actually, just thinking back to what the parents say . . . has got me a bit teary eyed myself. :)

This work was always meant as a way to give something back. We do it for the club. We do it for the girls. And we do it for the parents.

:)

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I once cried over a shot's lack of noise and dynamic range at ISO 100. It made me think with nostalgia about the sensors I have loved in the past.
 


Other people cry too, but for other reasons.
Who was that weird hippie in soft focus ?
How do you blokes go looking at yourself after all those years ?

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Volunteer, what could possibly go wrong ?
 
Nikonicon said:
Welcome

Photography can be a very emotional thing especially when you have made something of real beauty,you know when its so perfect,everything has combined to produce that proud moment.I have come very very close to tears seeing a couple of perfectly beautiful photos recently.

Have you ever cried over one of your creations.

If you could be so kind to share your experience at some time.

My work involves a lot of photography of a sporting nature,I know how many I take and the effort that goes into them, I guess it becomes more emotional knowing I will be presenting that perfection to the person featured.
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I think we all get sentimentally attached to some of our creations. It happens to fro time to time especially for personal photos of family and good friends but not very often.

Moti

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"Have you ever cried over one of your creations.

If you could be so kind to share your experience at some time."

Since you asked so nicely. One evening my wife and I took our two daughters 3 and 5 to an amusement park. About 9:00 PM we said it was time to go home and our three year old was very upset and we had to ask why and it was because we hadn't all taken a ride on the kiddie train yet... My wife and I did not realize she had been waiting patiently all evening for that. So of course we went and took that train ride and the expression on her face during the ride was so happy and magical. I have one good photo of it. It is just a snapshot really, but it reminds us how easy it is to get it all wrong as a parent. Of course no one except me and my wife would see that photo that way. Everyone else just sees what looks like the happiest little girl in the world.
 
I have two photographs of my Grandfather.

One as a fresh faced 19 year old, taken with his two pals in early 1915 as they joined their Regiment. There is just a suggestion of a slight smile, behind which lies a hint of excitement at his forthcoming adventure.

The second photograph was taken on his return home after spending many months in hospital recovering from severe wounds received at Passchendaele.

The difference between the two is palpable. It is not many years ago that the second photograph was discovered. When I first saw it, I cried. I often still do.
 
Almost came to tears when I lost 1,000+ pictures from my Alaska/Mt. Rainier trip (which I'm in the process of recovering). Somehow one of the shots survived and I wanted to hug it and hold it forever (maybe it and I should get a room). They weren't masterpieces by any stretch but I was so excited taking them that it was pretty devastating losing them. Might not be the kind of story you're looking for but that's what I've got.
 
I c-c-c-an't remember getting emotional about photos, even though I spent hours processing some of them, like this one. The person in this photo declared at the time that she had no intention to be in my life, but she still is, almost 14 years later -

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The indoor photos at the time were matched to a dying CRT monitor, and on my current laptop they look too green. Emotionally, I do feel drawn to re-process all the photos I took of the lady.

Henry

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I saw a photo in a newspaper of Bobby Kennedy in a pool of blood when I was child. Had no idea what death really was prior to that photo. I stared at it for a long time. Shook me up.
 
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