Photography and OCD

[Sanford]

<p>Is there a connection?</p>

[rick_m.]

<p>Absolutely not.</p>

<p>Absolutely not.</p>

<p>Absolutely not.</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>With photography per se, no. With selfies, maybe...</p>

[SCL]

<p>Not me, but all those other photographers.... :)</p>

[Rick Helmke]

<p>Yup.<br>

<br />Rick H.</p>

[wogears]

<p>I think...<br>

Have to recalibrate the monitor...<br>

Hell, a stuck pixel. Let me map it out...<br>

Okay, almost have the mouse pad lined up...<br>

Jesus, I left the printer door open...<br>

Did someone mess with my Wacom? It's tilted!...<br>

Almost there. Just need to count the USB ports again...</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>Black point, black point, black point, shadow detail, shadow detail, shadow detail, arched curve, arched curve, arched curve...</p>

<p>BAM! IT POPS!...Uh-Oh...tweak white balance, tweak, tweak, tweak (had to re-edit post to add extra "tweak")...gotta' get away from the computer...make some coffee...come back...WHAT WAS I THINKING?! ARRRGH!</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>Tim, that's just normal Photoshop post-processing, not OCD... ;-)</p>

[Tim_Lookingbill]

<p>William, I'm officially hiring you as my psychiatrist.</p>

<p>The pay's great. If you like Monopoly money. ;)</p>

[William Kahn]

<p>Sorry, Tim, I only accept bitcoins...</p>

[sarah_fox]

 

<blockquote>

<p>Absolutely not.<br>

Absolutely not.<br>

Absolutely not.</p>

</blockquote>

<p>Of<br>

Course!<br>

Definitely!</p>

 

[ilkka_nissila]

<p>OCD = label given to people who want to do something (such as their craft) properly, in the eyes of those who don't care at all how anything is done.</p>

[GerrySiegel]

Hey Sanford. Neurotics and borderline psychotics make up the artistic fraternity. ( Van Gogh is great even with a fetish to self multilate) If the urge to capture all meals and all nuances of our mugs on film, why then it can become a compulsion. Like collecting old cameras. We all knew that photography used to be just chemistry and luck, right? Ever since the craft became collectible art and got into the fancies of the common herd, it soon enough became a pathology. Nothing that is not a pathology is very interesting. Take your NW forum. Some folks track down barstools. Some toilets. Some matchboxes from old bistros. Soup cans. One lady's OCD is tuned to another's aspiration. It makes for a very agreeable alliance and some wild and crazy cocktail conversation. I am not sure what I would say to Warhol in person. Do you?

[Sanford]

<p>If you need proof, just read that thread in Causal Photo Conversation about the black cat in the coal bin. (OH NO!, my response is number thirteen, that can't be good)</p>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>DxO + MTF = OCD</p>

[gordonjb]

<p>The rest of you may have OCD however I am merely careful and attentive.</p>

 

[Two23]

<p>Shouldn't it really be called, "CDO?" (OCD in alphabetical order.)<br>

As for do photographers have it, maybe some. I'm more the opposite though, with ADD (analog digital disorder.)</p>

<p>Kent in SD</p>

[chris_waller]

<p>Speaking as someone who once spent almost 4 years trying to get what I felt was the 'definitive' photograph of a willow tree, I am possibly not best placed to comment! :)</p>

[gungajim]

<p>When I gave up booze, I took up photography.</p>