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ruben
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Some of us are not any more students, free-lancers, un-employed and retirement is ahead. Very scarce time for photography. Nevertheless I am experiencing an interesting thing that may be useful for a few of us.
After making my mind about the type of camera to be my main shooter, I decided to make it my only shooter.
This means that instead of looking to preserve it at home for special ocassions, and using a pocketable mini-whatever, I am taking my Shooter with me EVERYWHERE. In fact, it is worse, as we are talking about a pair of the same camera.
I wish I would be working in a kind of job making me travel, but this is not my case, like many of my RFF neighbours. I wake up, take a bus to my workplace, go back home by evening or night. Still our family may go somewhere at week-ends, holydays, and my weekly schedule some times is broken at midday for a dentist or some other compromises, enabling to raise the day frame rate accordingly.
So I am making quite a routine, but with a significant difference that is changing everything. Except for my home and workplace, one of my twins is always on my chest. At my job, or at home, one of my pair is put on the alert at a special open and accessible honourable place.
By this way involving a lot of camera-noise banging and carrying, during my working days i am producing an average of 2 or 3 frames per day, unless a small thing happens and i find myself traveling at mid-week. A fairly minimal amount.
But taking my Shooter everywhere, and keeping it on the open, is producing within me a sort of photographic tension and alertness, which translates itself in a kind of deepening sight, and dextereous camera manipulation, like i remember myself in my best photographic times when i was younger and prettier. You may compare me to a kind of hungry fisherman fishing at shallow waters. He must develop his instincts out of hunger. The quoted 2-3 frames in terms of quality, involve big fishes, out of my refining instincts.
Now my photo-op frustration is gone, and reversed into an appealing 'routine' with a deep feeling of photographic satisfaction.
Cheers,
Ruben
PS,
If you find this post usefull and want to follow suit, be ready your building neighbours as well as your co-workers, and simple bypassers, will show amused face expressions when looking at you. On the other hand you cannot but agree that everything has a price to pay for.
After making my mind about the type of camera to be my main shooter, I decided to make it my only shooter.
This means that instead of looking to preserve it at home for special ocassions, and using a pocketable mini-whatever, I am taking my Shooter with me EVERYWHERE. In fact, it is worse, as we are talking about a pair of the same camera.
I wish I would be working in a kind of job making me travel, but this is not my case, like many of my RFF neighbours. I wake up, take a bus to my workplace, go back home by evening or night. Still our family may go somewhere at week-ends, holydays, and my weekly schedule some times is broken at midday for a dentist or some other compromises, enabling to raise the day frame rate accordingly.
So I am making quite a routine, but with a significant difference that is changing everything. Except for my home and workplace, one of my twins is always on my chest. At my job, or at home, one of my pair is put on the alert at a special open and accessible honourable place.
By this way involving a lot of camera-noise banging and carrying, during my working days i am producing an average of 2 or 3 frames per day, unless a small thing happens and i find myself traveling at mid-week. A fairly minimal amount.
But taking my Shooter everywhere, and keeping it on the open, is producing within me a sort of photographic tension and alertness, which translates itself in a kind of deepening sight, and dextereous camera manipulation, like i remember myself in my best photographic times when i was younger and prettier. You may compare me to a kind of hungry fisherman fishing at shallow waters. He must develop his instincts out of hunger. The quoted 2-3 frames in terms of quality, involve big fishes, out of my refining instincts.
Now my photo-op frustration is gone, and reversed into an appealing 'routine' with a deep feeling of photographic satisfaction.
Cheers,
Ruben
PS,
If you find this post usefull and want to follow suit, be ready your building neighbours as well as your co-workers, and simple bypassers, will show amused face expressions when looking at you. On the other hand you cannot but agree that everything has a price to pay for.
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