Do you have bad photo days?

Well went out yesterday and every photo I took was crap. So dam frustrated. Couldnt shoot a barn door if I tryed.

How many others have these days and what do you do to get over it.

I do, every day I take pictures. I don't get over it; rather, I have resigned myself to the fact that I'm an amateur and not very good at photography.

I've been experiencing this lately myself, and it's discouraging. I think I've been shooting too much paid stuff and haven't really been enjoying my picture taking. To get over it, I think I'm going to participate in a meet up with some of the photogs I've met on My Space. The guy who's spearheading the effort is bringing models (male, too) with him.

Yes. I do have that experience from time to time. Sometime it is nothing more than my timing being off just a little bit during a sports shoot. Other times I just don't like what I see period. What comes out in the computer screen looks nothing like what I saw on my head. I usually get that way from being lazy. I usually get out of it by putting up my zooms and attaching a prime to my camera. Zooms tend to make me lazy. I stand in one spot and turn the zoom ring to try to get the shot. Primes force me to look at thing differently. I walk around the shot more and I look at everything at a different angle with a prime.

Michael

Do you have good photo days too ??

you didn't have a bad photo day, you just found a lot of ways of not getting the desired results


no such thing as a wasted or bad shot, as long as you figure out what went wrong and learn from it

Happens to me from time to time.

The secret is:

1/ Don't post them

2/ Use Lesmacs' tip from the Tips thread in the Landscape forum...

'Subscribe to the rule of turds...if it's s**t, it's s**t...delete it!'
Oh...and learn from it.

There'll be plenty other days when you upload your shots to your PC/Mac and say...WOW!

kram wrote:
Do you have good photo days too ??

A lot more good ones than bad ones

I foten wonder about this perhaps sometimes the issue is our expectations?

I have been having a bad six months, never seem to get anything really great, quite demotivating

FlyingPete wrote:
I foten wonder about this perhaps sometimes the issue is our expectations?

I have been having a bad six months, never seem to get anything really great, quite demotivating

Well I have high expatitions, but looking at yesterdays photos reminds me of a point a shoot photographer. Must have had a lapse. It like I fogot all I had learnt in the last year.

Mind you it could have been the time and place. A lot of my emotion goes into my photography so mood may have been off.

What I find is that I have bad days when there is no decent subject matter around. I then shoot stuff I maybe wouldn't bother with in the hope I get something. But I don't worry about it. Just how it is. The key is to keep shooting and even to shoot in different places as much as you want to. Doing the POTN weekend themes is a good discipline as you get a new subject to look for and that adds to your usual eye for things. Most of the shots I like over the last several months have been shot just because I went out week after week to shoot something for the themes.

i have days when i feel that i have left my artistic eye at home. i get those "point and shoot" type shots. i just save 1 or 2 out of the hundred, and dump the rest. sometimes you just need an inspiration. when the event or place is very interesting to me, i never have this problem, i become enthralled. i think sometimes i just force it. cant force it...

i shoot for artistic purposes, and to remember the day. alot of my remember the day shots are relatively boring. monuments, reminders, people, highway roadsigns, stuff like that.

Just keep shooting, you are better than you think.

Thanks for pointing that out. We have a local challange as well. Makes you think about what you are setting out to acheive.