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Thanks Everyone for your stories and input.
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How emotional have you ever been over a photograph.
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Nikonicon
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lanidrac,welcome
Your response reminded me of the time when I asked my dad to listen to the tom clay song ''what the world needs now is love''...words about anybody here seen my old friend Bobby etc....my dad started talking about something else,I was so angry he wasn't listening.
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I would say that I have never cried right after a photo was taken. I have been deeply moved by a photo, and it has impacted me greatly to see something I captured that has emotion and depth...but that's just half of photography for me.
The part where I have cried is looking back on images of things that are no longer and having proof that they once existed in my life. The smile of an EX, the laugh of a brother, the buildings burned to the ground and the places that I probably won't ever see again. More or less as time passes my images matter more. This is the double edged sword of photography for me. What starts as the capturing of a moment eventually becomes a ghost of my past.
Don't ever feel strange that your work can impact you to the point of tears, as this only means that you successfully managed to capture a moment of importance to you...and not everyone does that properly.
The part where I have cried is looking back on images of things that are no longer and having proof that they once existed in my life. The smile of an EX, the laugh of a brother, the buildings burned to the ground and the places that I probably won't ever see again. More or less as time passes my images matter more. This is the double edged sword of photography for me. What starts as the capturing of a moment eventually becomes a ghost of my past.
Don't ever feel strange that your work can impact you to the point of tears, as this only means that you successfully managed to capture a moment of importance to you...and not everyone does that properly.
Erik Ohlson
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Well, yeah, maybe not in the context of your question:
Not too long ago, I uploaded this lousey scan from an old slide into my camera with the idea of finding the same exact place by the lake where I walk my dogs - to see how much the trees had grown.
Looking at this with one eye thru the camera and the current scene with the other eye -- I saw my dog from years (now long gone) ago "playing with" my present dogs and, yes, if you love dogs, that will bring a tear to your eye.
It would work with lots of things, long gone parents; little kids now grown.......
(Most of the trees have changed very little in more than a decade, BTW)
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Nikonicon
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Thanks Phenixburn
I wish I had been doing photography for a lot longer than I have ,then I would have those memories of so long ago.I had my first camera at about 12 years old and only used it for a year or so.The next camera was only purchased when I was 55 so there is a great gap.Recently however I was able to give a print of a footballer taken in 1965/1966 to his niece who became know to me 30 years later.....that was nearly 50 years after it was taken,just realised.
There was no emotion with that one,oddly.
Thanks for your thoughts on emotional impact.
I do have one of a small boy almost in tears looking up at his mummy for some sort of re assurance,he's about to break.We can all relate to an event that might have bought the same emotion to ourselves.I will try to find it and add it here eventually.
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Roger.
Nikonicon
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Thanks ErikWell, yeah, maybe not in the context of your question:
Not too long ago, I uploaded this lousey scan from an old slide into my camera with the idea of finding the same exact place by the lake where I walk my dogs - to see how much the trees had grown.
Looking at this with one eye thru the camera and the current scene with the other eye -- I saw my dog from years (now long gone) ago "playing with" my present dogs and, yes, if you love dogs, that will bring a tear to your eye.
It would work with lots of things, long gone parents; little kids now grown.......
(Most of the trees have changed very little in more than a decade, BTW)
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"Measure wealth not by things you have but by things for which you would not take money"
www.flickr.com/ohlsonmh/ [email protected]
for sharing your story about your past and present doggies.I have two myself and lost one after 15 years,my first since I had one as a boy.
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bosjohn21
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nope never cried but boy have I gotten very excited. In the old wet darkroom days I would react to the image coming up in the tray and a huge sense of joy when its all coming together the way I wanted it to. Now days I feel the same excitement when I have finished the file and know somehow this is one of my better images. Joy and excitement and elation
CanaryMango
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Never because a photo was perfect, because I'm a terrible photographer and most of my pictures are rubbish.
But I have taken plenty of photos that have a huge emotional resonance for me - especially of my late wife, and of our children as babies.
Still hoping for the day I take a picture so good it would move me emotionally with something more than "oh heck, might as well sell all my gear".
But I have taken plenty of photos that have a huge emotional resonance for me - especially of my late wife, and of our children as babies.
Still hoping for the day I take a picture so good it would move me emotionally with something more than "oh heck, might as well sell all my gear".
Nikonicon
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Here are the 3 pics showing emotion and feeling.
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Roger
Hearing
Not liking.
Some comfort
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I can't speak for everyone, but in my opinion it seems that a lot of people are trained to put a stopper on emotion to a certain degree, almost like it isn't cool or accepted to cry or even laugh out loud in public.
If you are one of those rare few who can feel the depth of something, and let yourself truly be taken in by it, then I applaud you for being awesome! Because many people simply won't ever allow themselves to experience that sort of depth.
If you are one of those rare few who can feel the depth of something, and let yourself truly be taken in by it, then I applaud you for being awesome! Because many people simply won't ever allow themselves to experience that sort of depth.
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