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It is odd. I am very bored of photography at the moment. Maybe my state of mind but cant shoot for jack and not motivated.

Heck, earlier I sat looking at my kit thinking about how much capital I could raise to go travelling or something, anything.....

Whats a person to do...........:thinking:
 
WAit it out, it will pass as it always does and you'll find yourself inspired again.
 
Take the camera out of the bag and use it to take some pictures, doesnt matter what of, anything in the room, round and about you, then share some with us, maybe not great inspiration but will make you take photos.

Are you going to try the photo day?
 
Steep said:
WAit it out, it will pass as it always does and you'll find yourself inspired again.
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Hope so, just got my FA Licence and upped my insurance to 5 million ready for the 2007/2008 season !
 
sue said:
Take the camera out of the bag and use it to take some pictures, doesnt matter what of, anything in the room, round and about you, then share some with us, maybe not great inspiration but will make you take photos.

Are you going to try the photo day?
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Kinda done all that Sue.

Whats the photo day you mention ?
 
That'll be the weather then ! - Hold on to it all, there's the disaster shots tomorrow when the gales whistle through, the flooding shots the day after and the snow scenes for the weekend......

Failing that sell everything except the kit and embark on a world tour to capture the cultural diversity of planet....
 
You know Pete if you sold it all and went travelling you'd be somewhere and wish you had your camera with you. How about thinking of ways to use your camera to generate the dosh to go travelling?

If your that bored I could always send you my HNC maths module I've been handbagging for the last 2 months.
 
Kev Mills said:
You know Pete if you sold it all and went travelling you'd be somewhere and wish you had your camera with you. How about thinking of ways to use your camera to generate the dosh to go travelling?
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Thats a very good point. You would have no way of documenting the things you saw. I know I'd hate that. Have you thought about the oh so fun task of backing up and cataloging your library? :D
 
Ive felt like this so many times, and it passes, however every time it passes and I get interested again, I say to myself.."God I'm glad that I didn't sell my gear", My bouts of becoming uninterested usually revolve around spending hours processing and editing images on the pc when I know that life is zipping past outside my window and I'm sat on my backside in front of a screen! (I wouldn't mind so much if the images were any good, but just plain ordinary is the norm)

Just sit tight m8, because the nights are drawing out and it wont be long before there will be lots to shoot at.
Sometimes when I feel my interest waning, I make a point of printing off some pictures A4 and best quality, this always seems to help with me as it gives me something that a jpeg tiff or nef on a screen never can.

hold in there!!
 
Diego Garcia said:
It is odd. I am very bored of photography at the moment. Maybe my state of mind but cant shoot for jack and not motivated.

Heck, earlier I sat looking at my kit thinking about how much capital I could raise to go travelling or something, anything.....

Whats a person to do...........:thinking:
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Pete, I know just how you feel. I've been like it myself for the last month or so. just stick with it I'm sure it will pass.
 
Part of the recovery process as much as weather, boredom and everything else Pete ... you have been through quite a bit lately and achieved quite a lot more in a relatively short space of time but ... at the end of the day you are only human after all ... and it happens to all us mere mortals at some point or other ... ;)


Sit it out, busy yourself with something else for a day or so as long as it takes but whatever you do don't do anything you'll regret later ... :D




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It's the weather, i'm sure it is.

I have not taken a photo for nigh on a week now, despite having a sparkly new circular polariser to play with.
 
It happens to us all... I feel a bit like that myself at the moment, I think it's a combination of crap light and the fact that I hate this time of year anyway.

Ride it out, it'll pass- think about what it would cost you to start over again when the urge returns, which it surely will. ;)
 
Pete Im the same!
Ive been off colour for a couple of weeks with 'Manflu' ... you know the kind where everyone has to wait on you :lol:
I actually stepped outside with my camera today as there were some interesting clouds ... I looked down and still had my macro on ... thought 'sod it!' came inside and had yet another cup of tea!
I hope this feeling passes soon, I was enjoying my steep learning curve ... until I fell off it! :(
 
ive got a couple of challenge threads coming that might help, but they wont be along for a few days yet, ive got to think about them some more, then forget about it completely, then do it
 
Ah ... sounds just like your usual mo Matty ... :D

Things back to normal again ... great ... :lol:





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Pete, given what you have been through recently, it's hardly suprising! Your body is using all it's energy to heal itself, leaving nothing to spare at the moment, but as the process moves forward, so your energy levels will get better and then the enthusiasm will return. Trust me, I'm an (ex) nurse!!

Just eat healthily, rest and relax. I bet you are hopeless at doing that!!!:lol: :lol:
 
photostar_1 said:
Pete, given what you have been through recently, it's hardly suprising! Your body is using all it's energy to heal itself, leaving nothing to spare at the moment, but as the process moves forward, so your energy levels will get better and then the enthusiasm will return. Trust me, I'm an (ex) nurse!!

Just eat healthily, rest and relax. I bet you are hopeless at doing that!!!:lol: :lol:
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Kind of. I do get bored easily and not the sort of person to sit down and play video games etc. Maybe watch the odd movie.

Thanks for the advice all. Should pass - I am just trying to rejig my kit line up to raise some capital but loathe to move anything on so to speak.
 
This week is officially the most depressing of the year - Xmas is over, none of us have any money (mostly because of Xmas and NYE) and it's dark and sh*tty outside.

Wait it out. Go and do something non-photography related: read a book, watch a DVD, go for a long drive somewhere nice without the cameras.
Go clubbing and pull a fat-bird even, just do something different.

When the weather improves, you'll feel better.

I once had a slump that lasted two years. Sold all my cameras, bought a new bicyle and rode round in circles really fast (track racing - stupidest thing, ever).
Eventually had to spend more money buying new cameras (of lesser quality than the ones I'd sold) when I came around again.
 
I agree with Rob entirely. Wandering around with a camera looking for inspiration when you feel like this is just going to make you feel like binning your gear. Put it all away out of sight and go and do something else for a while.
 
Likewise here really, if it wasn't for work I wouldn't have lifted a camera for a couple of months now to do anything creative.

I'm not fussed though, it's the same every year for me. Seasonal affective disorder. grrrr
 
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