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Planned, or Accident

astrodude85
02/28/05 6:53 AM GMT
Alright, i have to ask this once and for all, how many of the photos here were planned, and how many were just stumbled upon. IOW, what's the virtue of always carrying a camera?
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+ppigeon
02/28/05 7:41 AM GMT
I've always a cam with me. Obviously!
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Si
02/28/05 12:11 AM GMT
It depends what you mean by planned and accident. Very few of mine are planned in the sense of deciding in advance what shot I'm going to take, but a lot I wouldn't call accidental, in that I'm going to places I know will present photo opportunities. After a quick check through my gallery I'd say less than 1/10 were genuinely planned, around 3/4 were the result of taking a camera in the expectation of getting some sort of shot, and around 1/6 were stumbled upon in places where I wouldn't have expected to find a shot but was fortunate enough to have the camera with me when I did :-)
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Romane
02/28/05 9:33 PM GMT
Good morning
Am unable to give a ratio for my images, as would need a better definition of "planed" and "accidental". However...
I am an opportunist in my photography. Most of my images have been a case of "now, that looks like it may make a nice image" type things and then planning the best distance/direction/composition/time of day etc - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I often go out with my camera just to take photos and do nothing else, with a physical destination in mind (a park, a road, a mountain, a town or whatever) and look for photographic opportunities at that site - some days are fruitfull, some days are not. And sometimes, the result is altogether different to what was intended when the shutter was fired and is better than what was "plotted and planned" - an example is my "Lord of the Manor".
Carry a camera all the time? A definate must - if we are not opportunistic then we will miss some nice frames. Forgot this morning, and am kicking myself for the pictures could have taken - those moments will not return again.
Romane
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astrodude85
02/28/05 10:28 PM GMT
I guess by planned i mean an image which you would sit down and plan out in your mind before ever picking up the camera or going to the site, something like having an idea involving a road or a clover patch, etc, and picturing the image in your mind, then going out and recreating it to the best of your ability. By accident, something more like walking on a summer day, not looking for anything, but stumbling upon a leaf with a single drop of dew, or just happening to be in the perfect place for a beautiful sunset. I hope this clears up the planned vs accident definitions, thanks for the great responses though!
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+mayne
03/01/05 4:53 AM GMT
I take it as it comes...spur of the moment. If something catches my eye (which it usually does), I will take my time with it and plan at that point to catch the image I desire. I have planned to go back to the same area and subject when those images do not satisfy me. Today I will go find a new mushroom is as close to planning before hand as I get;-)
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Darryl
jacked
03/01/05 5:51 PM GMT
If i plan at all, it is to get up early in the morning, and just drive. I think for me, it is the best time. It's so fresh and dewy, i love the morning light, sometimes you can catch a great looking sunrise, and if its fogy, their are all kinds of possibility's. I have to plan a little to get a sunset pic, because i have to drive about a mile to get up on a hill. Dwight.
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pom1
03/01/05 6:16 PM GMT
well, most of my photos are not planned, because if you look at my galery you will see i do a lot of Birds, and wildlife, Which tend not to listen to planning, so i just go out and look for them in places where they are likely to be. and then landscapes i usualy do a bit of planing. and some times i will think of a photo before ive ever taken it, and then keep looking until i find it. ;)
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Paws_of_GT
03/01/05 11:07 PM GMT
My camera goes everywhere with me for 2 reasons, you never know what you are gong to see while out, so having it is always better than not. Cos you know how it goes, the day you don't have it you see something that catches your eye & can't take that shot in that moment when it is just right.

Secondly, it doubles as an MP3 player. =]
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tbhockey
03/01/05 11:24 PM GMT
I would say less than half of my images are planned. And I always try to bring my camera with me when i a going out of my ussualy weekly rutene (spelling?).
As too, as Pom does, would love to try taking wildlife shots, but i need a longer lens, which i dont have the funds for at the moment.
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noobguy
03/02/05 3:44 PM GMT
I would say that my digital work is about 1/3 imagined and searched for 1/3 planned at site and 1/3 complete fortune. I would say that my film work is 99% planned or imagined ahead of time
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cctruckee
03/02/05 5:59 PM GMT
I must say that all of my photos were fortunate accidents. For the majority of last year I lived with my camera around my neck. The fortunate part was that I was living on the road, traveling in an RV to some of the most beautiful spots in the Northwest USA, beauty I had never seen before.

I started finding myself looking at the world and framing it. Especially at Glacier National Park. Even driving through Idaho, the beauty abounds.

I don't carry my camera with me currently. Taking a bit of a break. And it is so hard not to carry, because I still see the world in frames, and see so many missed opportunities.

But I am overwhelmed with the question "Okay, you now have 1000 photos, what are you going to do with them?" So I have been in an editing, defining, catagorizing, deleting mode.

I am getting ready to make another trip, this time to India and Thailand. And I will once again live with my camera around my neck, but I have no idea what photos I will be inspired to try and capture. Beauty is what inspired me on my first trip, first photos.

I hope to apply some of what I have learned from sharing here at Caedes (watch that horizon!) and explore my camera and continue to grow and learn more about this passion called photography.

I guess you could say I seek out fortunate accidents.



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