Your least prefered category

<p>When you engage in the photographic activity for your own pleasure (not for hire) which is the one category you do not want to "shoot"?</p>

<p>1. Weddings!<br>

2. Any 'social activity' where I'm the only person with a camera because people start telling me what to shoot so they can get a copy. (Like working without getting paid....) :-(</p>

<p>Kittens in teacups.</p>

<p>Funerals.</p>

<p>Actually, I find funerals amazing for photos.</p>

<p><img src="http://spirer.com/images/pall.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="428" /></p>

<p>On the other hand, I don't want to shoot landscapes.</p>

<p>I do shoot graveyard monuments, but not the actual late departed.</p>

<p>Oddly, it would probably be sunsets, because I'd rather experience them from a comfortable lawn chair with a nice cup of tea (and not my camera) in my hand. After all, how many sunset pictures does one need?</p>

<p>If I'm taking photos for my own pleasure then there's no reason to even consider the notion of a least preferred category. How would I know until I tried it? How would I know that particular experience is representative of every possible future experience?</p>

<p>I try not to rule out any genre, category or style because I know from previous experiences that I'm usually wrong when I said "never" or "always" about anything creative.</p>

<p>I've never photographed nudes. Never really wanted to. Most of the genre seems trite. And then, once in a great while, I'll see an example that's so inspired I think, maybe, just maybe, I might try it someday. But it's so far down on my list of subjects that I would actually like to photograph that it's unlikely I'll ever get around to it.</p>

<p>Well in San Francisco, we get a lot of sunsets like this one, important to show since it's not what other people claim are sunsets.</p>

<p><img src="http://spirer.com/images/ggfog.jpg" alt="" width="645" height="474" /></p>

<p>Wildlife. (For me -- I appreciate the skill and effort required when others do it.)</p>

<p>Fireworks, shots of the moon, light trails and other cosmic events happening in the night sky just to see if I could do it. I've already shot fireworks and the moon and they came out decent from a technical aspect but I found I'm just not turned on by their esthetics and the trouble involved in their capture.</p>

<p>I will not try it again and I can scratch that off my photography bucket list.</p>

<p>I don't work in categories anyway so how would I answer your question, Dani. My passion is to use visual arts (photography, painting, drawing, print-making ...) to explore reality and conditions of life. Vast project !</p>

<p>For me, it's not so much a category, rather I tend to avoid photography opportunities of any genre unless I can learn something from the experience. </p>

Bugs.

<p>I'm trying to work at street photography, but feel quite uncomfortable doing it.</p>

 

<p>Long-exposure, soft-water shots, turning waterfalls and waves into smooth, bokeh-like white outs. A sharp wave is now an exception rather than the rule. When did this flip-flop happen?</p>

When you're shooting for pleasure, you can avoid anything that you dislike. Therefore, I'm not sure how to answer.

<p>For me, shooting photographs is a means for me to connect with everything and anything external to me, regardless of its nature. There is nothing that I avoid shooting because it falls into a category I don't prefer. </p>

<p>lol.....best sunset ever Jeff.....pretty much the same here in Cleveland only a darker grey</p>

<p>Jeff, Thom: I'd like to see a sunset in various shades of grey. In south Florida, all I ever see are various shades of blue, red, orange, etc. It's gotten boring after living here since 1958.</p>

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<p>Long-exposure, soft-water shots, turning waterfalls and waves into smooth, bokeh-like white outs. A sharp wave is now an exception rather than the rule. When did this flip-flop happen?</p>

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<p>Ha ha, a pet hate of mine too along with sunsets, other peoples kids playing sports, 'street' shots of wrinkley hobos or any other hackneyed cliche we've all seen a thousand times before - there I've gone and offended practically everyone!<br /> But seriously though the OP is not asking our opinion of other peoples decisions but which category we least like to pursue ourselves (all categories are open to cliches after all). I used to hate portraiture because I no longer really believed in it but nowadays I find making a successful portrait one of the most satisfying things. I'm open to any project really as long as it's interesting in some way and maybe I'll worry about that category later.</p>

<p>I'd avoid crappy pictures, if I knew how to.</p>

I personally don't care to photograph sunset (or, sunrise) for I would rather be present in person to enjoy the receding, changing colors. Despite that I did manage to shoot one -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitteralmonds/4738340556/sizes/o/in/set-72157624260842257/ -- for the silhouette (yes, I knew at the time that the area around the sun is going to blow out).

 

(Michael L, above is in shades of brown.)

<p>Parv - Thanks . . . a welcome change of pace.</p>

<p>I guess documentation. Like taking pictures of stuff in my house just to document what I have. Can't think of anything else.</p>