anywho... i’m glad i’m not the only one who constantly goes back to the same subject, frustrated by previous outputs. for some it’s dirt roads, for others it’s buildings. i spend years photographing the same architecture hoping i’ll find something new because i’m unsatisfied with previous attempts. sometimes i eventually say “ok, i got that one, time to move on” but it’s not that often.
I think most non-conceptual photographers probably have a range of subjects they return to over and over, I have many. Trees, barns, coulees that i love and document in various seasons and light, etc. But normally i'm not trying to get anything specific i'm just continuing a long story of photos of a place. In this case, I can see the photo in my head and cannot seem to resolve the physics of it via a lens and sensor. So i keep going back. but i dunno if that's what you mean you're doing.
It sounds like you don't have a particular vision until you go back to a place and then see something but can't resolve the physics of it?
If I'm reading you right, then I'd say that generally, yes, it's the same. I'll see a place and think of a new way to photograph it and sometimes it's hard to put it all together. And sometimes I think I "got it" but when I look at them later, I find that I in fact did not. Then it becomes more of the slog of going back and trying to redo the same composition, but better. Eventually I might get it, and move on for a bit, only to come back to the same subject and find something new and the cycle starts again.
It's also in trying to redo things I often am scanning the contours of a building or other subject and finding something completely different that I later quite like.
actually you have it inverted. I generally take a picture because i see a picture, and having done this a while now, it either usually works or doesn't, or I understand why it doesn't and fix it in situ so to speak. In this case, i know what i want it to look like but have yet to sort out the planes and perspective changes from lens+sensor and can't quite nail it down. why this matters more than the 100 other spots ive tried things and they didnt work and i left it alone i don't know. I only know ive been at this spot so many times over the years and how i think about it in my head isn't how it looks in photos and that bugs the shit out of me haha.
i thought you didn’t wear sunscreen!
anywho... i’m glad i’m not the only one who constantly goes back to the same subject, frustrated by previous outputs. for some it’s dirt roads, for others it’s buildings. i spend years photographing the same architecture hoping i’ll find something new because i’m unsatisfied with previous attempts. sometimes i eventually say “ok, i got that one, time to move on” but it’s not that often.
I think most non-conceptual photographers probably have a range of subjects they return to over and over, I have many. Trees, barns, coulees that i love and document in various seasons and light, etc. But normally i'm not trying to get anything specific i'm just continuing a long story of photos of a place. In this case, I can see the photo in my head and cannot seem to resolve the physics of it via a lens and sensor. So i keep going back. but i dunno if that's what you mean you're doing.
It sounds like you don't have a particular vision until you go back to a place and then see something but can't resolve the physics of it?
If I'm reading you right, then I'd say that generally, yes, it's the same. I'll see a place and think of a new way to photograph it and sometimes it's hard to put it all together. And sometimes I think I "got it" but when I look at them later, I find that I in fact did not. Then it becomes more of the slog of going back and trying to redo the same composition, but better. Eventually I might get it, and move on for a bit, only to come back to the same subject and find something new and the cycle starts again.
It's also in trying to redo things I often am scanning the contours of a building or other subject and finding something completely different that I later quite like.
actually you have it inverted. I generally take a picture because i see a picture, and having done this a while now, it either usually works or doesn't, or I understand why it doesn't and fix it in situ so to speak. In this case, i know what i want it to look like but have yet to sort out the planes and perspective changes from lens+sensor and can't quite nail it down. why this matters more than the 100 other spots ive tried things and they didnt work and i left it alone i don't know. I only know ive been at this spot so many times over the years and how i think about it in my head isn't how it looks in photos and that bugs the shit out of me haha.