ever get the feeling...

Just had that thought the other day...
I'm trying to see things differently and/or look at things from different angles...
I took a shot while in the city the other day with a wide angle lens...there was a lady standing about four feet away from me...I shot her from the back with the buildings in the background...not my normal approach but it looked nice...haven't developed the roll yet but looking forward to seeing how it turned out...she never knew I took the shot...
 
There's a lot of Truth in what Keith posted...
Stepping out of your Comfort Zone will do wonders in many aspects of your life...
Fear of Failure keeps us in our Comfort Zone...
 
To paraphrase Heraclitus: you can't take the same picture twice, because you're aren't the same person and the subject isn't the same ...
 
Yep, and this thread reminds me of something i heard or read awhile ago that was if you do the same thing over and over again and expect different results you can be classified as crazy.
 
I like to do simple things to freshen things up such as walking on the opposite side of the street, catching a bus instead of a train. Getting off at different stops etc. Works wonders.
 
Never. Even if I photograph a place or person or thing I have photographed many times for many years, I am photographing in a different time and condition.
 
Ah, this is always an interesting topic. The existential problem of the modern photographer. Given technology sufficiently advanced that we are loosed from the restraints of technical skill, what is it that we actually want to photograph? If we (each of us individually) are the center of our universe, why do we keep producing stuff that looks like everyone else's stuff?

I think it comes from fear. Fear of exposing our real selves to the world. Sartre's concept of bad faith. We know from a century of photographic experience what people like to see in photographs. We are exposed daily to thousands of images that reinforce this group think. But we are afraid of using our freedom to break out of the box, so we never explore deeply enough what we think. And we keep shooting other people's photographs.

As James Taylor sings, "I need four walls around me ...To hold my life, to keep me from going astray."
 
back alley said:
...that you're taking the same picture over and over again?
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Yes, I used to go to the same parts of London and take the same photos. I got to be unhappy with my photography. When I started making the effort to go to new places, I got happier. But then, I'm happy with one keeper per roll really.

The new places I went are probably no more than 5 miles from the old places, but such a different "feel", old London rather than new London.

Also it helped that I'm trying a little to focus my efforts on a particular type of photography, for me it's empty urban landscapes, for you it could be anything you like.

If you're getting bored, stop and do something else.
 
I've been going back to the same church each summer now for ten or more years ... you just need to stand, or point at a different place
 
Not often. When I do feel that way it is because I haven't gotten the version of the shot that I want so I have to keep trying.
 
Not really, never get that sense personally, but then I don't work overly hard on making images nor focus on a specific subject matter. I once read a quote that went along the lines of 1 out of focus image being a mistake, 10 being an experiment, and 100 signifying a style. In that vein, have you considered going deeper within the confines of these images that seem the same to you, and exploring it from that point of view, rather than looking to take a step back..
 
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