What do you look for in your photography?

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What are the topics that attract you? What type of photographic "objects" are you after?
 
Personally, photography is my hobby, i do it for myself, so a good photo to me is one that I enjoy. Something about it has to jump out at me, or i like the style. It's very hard to describe but i just have to like a photo or something about it. Some of my favourite photos, when i've submitted them for critique by others, have been found to be technically lacking. But to me they are perfect.
 
Things with texture, things with movement, things with interesting colour, things that provoke emotion...
 
At the risk of sounding trite, I like to look for beauty where there is none!
 
Memories. Whether it's a particularly vivid sunset (or rise), row upon row of vines, a beach... sometimes even a person! I can't draw for toffee so photography is the only way I can create a lasting image, especially since my grey matter memory isn't that great at the moment.

Beside that, I'm after pleasing pictures, almost always for me but very occasionally for others. If a client is happy with the shot, so am I (and usually, if I'm happy with it, so is the client.)
 
Firstly, mostly, it's got to stop me dead in my tracks. Different scenes, different things, I suppose. I like strong lines and symmetry. I like lighting that draws me into to the subject. I think what I'm trying to say is simply a feeling of engagement.
 
No fixed ideas (sometimes no ideas at all:)) sometimes I might go to something/somewhere with an idea of what I want. The 40's weekend at Haworth I wanted to get the people. Most walks I go on I don't have an idea and sometimes I don't find anything that interests me, other times I have 100 photos to process.
 
I'm not really 'into' photography.

I enjoy landscapes, wildlife and birds - and whilst I've been taking photographs for 30 years or so, photography is just something that engages me in those things.
 
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Anything that catches my eye; after that I want to show others though the photograph what I saw and felt. It's a matter of keeping my eyes open and attempting to look at what's there, rather than what I (and everyone else) expects to see.
 
StephenM said:
Anything that catches my eye; after that I want to show others though the photograph what I saw and felt. It's a matter of keeping my eyes open and attempting to look at what's there, rather than what I (and everyone else) expects to see.
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I think that I'm in accord with that.
 
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