is your OH supportive?

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Is your OH supportive of your photography?

Mine certainly is. 4am he came into the bedroom, "wake up! Perfect photo opertunity outside! Go on, get up and go and take a photo! There's no batteries in the bridge camera so go on, get up!"

Just waiting for the snow to calm down a little so I can try again with another lens. :lol:
 
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Maybe not as supportive as that but my wife is very good generally. She knows I enjoy it so even when it may cost me to go somewhere/buy equipment etc we make the money available.
 
Nope absolutely not - It's a pointless and stupid thing to do, and why would I want to take the camera everywhere, it's just a tree/boat/water.......:shrug:

but then she's not that supportive with my non-photography life either, perhaps I need more than a new body this year
 
My OH is very supportive, she carries my tripod everywhere - I bought her a tripod bag for Christmas to make it easier!
Jokes aside, yes, she is supportive but I try to combine the photography with places she likes to go.
 
:thinking: Fairly.

He does tend to roll his eyes just before they completely glaze over when I'm talking about it . . . on the other hand, he's bought me all the kit I have so far and does point out random photo ops to me.

I guess that means he *is* supportive, but as long as he doesn't have to listen to me chattering about it - which is probably why I've accumulated 1,400 posts in 6 months blabbering on to you lot :lol:
 
if you can persuade your OH to start a really expensive hobby then there is never any question about what's in your kit cupboard.

Mine has a horse. We have no food in the fridge and the car is knackered but we're both very happy :)
 
My wife is supportive in terms of me going off with the camera when there's perhaps other things I should be doing. She's spent many hours in the car reading a book over the years whilst I'm away up a hill.

She's not overly supportive when it comes to the things I'd like to buy however if she thinks I'm being sensible with my purchases (rather than daft) then she'll be OK about it.
 
My wife is really supportive too. She's just handed over several hundred pounds for a new 40D and is always pushing me to extend my creative ideas.
 
My wife is really pushing me to try and go professional, although we can't afford the kit I would need just yet as we've got debts from the wedding to pay off!
 
Photography is a hobby I share with my Husband. Even though we have different kit, we support each other. As for geting up at 4am Nattelie - Nah! Getting my Husband to rotate from "landscape" to "portrait" mode at any time before mid morning takes an awful lot of coffee.
 
My wife has now also began a healthy interest in togging and thus is very supportive..to the point where I have to wrestle my camera back from her!
 
Not even a little bit.
 
My wife said she would be more than happy for me to spend an afternoon in the company of several naked ladies, providing I got the shot. So I guess she's supportive.
 
mine's brill. Although he does sometimes get short shrift for waking me up similar to yourself, telling me 'there's something you can't miss out there, get your camera'. Annoyingly he'll sometimes take the shot himself and usually gets better pics than me :lol:
 
if you can persuade your OH to start a really expensive hobby then there is never any question about what's in your kit cupboard.

Mine has a horse. We have no food in the fridge and the car is knackered but we're both very happy
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That was my original plan, but I got bitten by the horse bug as well!

Very supportive on the whole, splesh if I take pics of the horses every now and then.

As for how much money I spend on it, fortunately she doesn't know the difference between a D60 or D3 :naughty:
 
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Annoyingly he'll sometimes take the shot himself and usually gets better pics than me :lol:
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My hubby does that sometimes too, but he prefers to use the bridge camera cause he can't be bothered focusing or changing lenses :lol: I was green with envy last June, we went to a park and there were baby swans and ducklings and he got better pics than I did!
 
so - your idea of supportive is he kicks you out in the snow at 4 in the morning
we need to talk, dear! :rules:
 
my OH wasn't atall, hated me going away photographing rallies, hopefully the next one will be more suportive!
 
Yes - he even tries to take an interest when I start talking about technicalities / new stuff I've learnt. Far more than I ever do when he is telling me about sport!
 
Yep, mine is supportive, she say's "why take pictures of stupid rally cars...it's all your interested in, what about the kids?"

wasn't happy when i said "Paige is only a year and a half, Hope is 3 and a half they're both to young to take pics of rally cars or me driving"

so i reckon since it wasn't totally negative i must be onto a winner with this :) although she doesn't appreciate it when i melt a piston or something and show her pics of the engine in bits......odd creature :)
 
I'm new to photography and my wife brought me my sony a330 with kit,bag and spares for xmas. I go out as much as i can with my camera but the mrs said when i first asked for one "it'll be a phase just like every thing else." This is different, dont know why? So the mrs just stands in the background while i click away. She does support me in her own way i think?
 
Yup! Here! Mine has my old D50 and comes along with me sometimes...has been making sure I have my 365 shot each day too!
 
Yv said:
:thinking: hmmm....yes, he is, -ish.... enough to be a member here, though I suspect he does it so he can keep an eye on any visits I make to photoshopping ;)
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i have to speak up on behalf of Jon ,,,,,,,,,getting up at three in the morning just to give a couple of eerrr,,( idiots ? ) a lift to a meat market is top stuff :thumbs:
 
Thanks mate! :wave:

... and what did I get out of it? Not a sausage! :shake:
 
I've never asked to be honest, she doesnt whinge when we're out and i'm taking pics.
She knows its what i enjoy doing so its not really a problem, so in that respect i suppose 'yes'..


Although she did whinge once when i abandoned the car on the tram lines at Blackpool
to get a shot of a flock of birds over the north pier as the sun was going down ... :thinking:

But that was mainly because there was a tram coming

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My Other Half is in the passenger seat - the wife sits in the back - SO WHAT I'm big boned:lol:


LOL - Why does that make me chuckle..............My OH is very supportive of me and my hobbies - dont mean I am not a little :cuckoo:
 
Just a thought - she also buys me supportive gifts - a Gorrila pod for christmas:thumbs: but took it back as it was the small-un - NO bi-uns in so will wait until deliveries arrive after the big thaw:lol:
 
Yeah, I think she is. She doesn't stop me doing it and if we are out together, she'll stand and wait patiently whilst I take my shot.

I just need to persuade her to do some modelling!!
 
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