Bob Randall Photography wrote:
Do you look at the work of others and say to yourself, "I would have done that so much differently and better"? Do all your highlights have to conform to some hidden rule you can't break? Is you color always weak and vapid or is it so strong it hurts the eyes, and you can't really explain why and when you try to, you invoke the names of artists that were valid a century ago in some lame defense of your thought process. Will you try to turn this thread into a debate about which is better, something named a Noblex versus a pixel. Are you so predictable that everyone knows the exact route you will travel to get home everyday and exactly what time you'll arrive. Do you wear the same style of clothing you wore as a freshman in high school. Do you choose the kind of car you drive all the time based on economics or do you drive a certain type of car because you think it reflects well on the size of your penis (was that a predictable question?)? Are you afraid or simply incapable of making a stylistic change in your work. Have you completely forgotten how to be new and invigorated. Are you just plain predictable?

Nope

Hadyn Lassiter wrote:
Nope

Hadyn, you gotta be kidding me. You have 43000 pictures of the same person in the same store and on both your sites, and that isn't the least bit predictable?

FKVPhotoGraphics wrote:
In my younger days.....much younger days.....I was so unpredictable it bordered on nuts!.....my life was described once as roller coster ride with no end. Once I moved 11 times in 12 months!

Now I'm 59 and yes, I am predictable.

I think there is a slow tranisition are you mature.....I like having some predictability in my life now.....I'd never survive another roller coaster ride.

I'm 56 and until 5 years ago most of my life had been predictable. I'm headed into my roller coaster ride with a bad back. Life is definitely more fun when you can look at it and say to yourself, "That ain't gonna fly, gotta change it and screw the consequences".

Bob Randall Photography wrote:

Hadyn, you gotta be kidding me. You have 43000 pictures of the same person in the same store and on both your sites, and that isn't the least bit predictable?

No its something I am working on. The images change every couple of days or so. Its my wife and I have been photographing her for about 8 months now and I am just starting to go through them. Is it up to 43000 already?

SPRINGHEEL wrote:
I do believe I've become predictable in my unpredictability......

Ahh, the Picasso problem.

Bob Randall Photography wrote:

I'm 56 and until 5 years ago most of my life had been predictable. I'm headed into my roller coaster ride with a bad back. Life is definitely more fun when you can look at it and say to yourself, "That ain't gonna fly, gotta change it and screw the consequences".

Well...I hope it works out for you......but one of the things my wild ride left me....a pacemaker stuck in my chest because the heart kept stopping.......my ticket must have gotten punched too many times.

Bob Randall Photography wrote:

Ahh, the Picasso problem.

I laughed when I read that but I do think I have different "periods"....and I do think I'm getting ready to start another....

(Let the menstruation jokes begin!!!)

W.G. Rowland wrote:
I look at all of my work with an even and egalitarian eye and chant the same mantra:

"This sucks!"

I know just enough of the rules (written and unwritten, but etched just as deep on the psyche of the herd) to know every choice I make is the wrong choice and that no one will ever, EVER like what I'm doing.

I then think, "I should give up and never touch another picture again.  I really do suck."

And then I look down at Mr. Winky (it's always important for GWC's to edit in the nude, preferrably with one hand, just in case any important tasks arise) and he says to me, "Uh, dipshit..  If you recall "sucking" were some of the best times we ever had.  I hate you because you refuse to bring anyone around who will suck in my presence.  So get to work, dipshit."

And I happily edit away..

And whether I take all the rules or break all the rules, the results are inevitably the same.

Someone will say, this is wrong.

Someone else will say, I love this!

And no one will come around who's interested in sucking with me..

I refuse to be the first person to post after reading this. I refuse. You can't make me.

Annivo wrote:
if you set out to fail and you succeed

did you fail or succeed ?

yes

Annivo wrote:
if you set out to fail and you succeed

did you fail or succeed ?

Be more specific.

Eric S. wrote:
Photographer's reps in big markets seek photographers who have "The Silent Killer"

I've been told I'm "Silent, but deadly."  And no one has sought me out.

Annivo wrote:
if you set out to fail and you succeed

did you fail or succeed ?

Did you put the same umbrella in the same exact place at the same power setting with the same model in the same pose?

Did she kick down the light stand and you had to shoot with a bare tube and you got this eerie harsh  otherworld image with shutter drag because you forgot to set the speed to your favorite 1/250th of a second and now you don't know what to do with yourself because this isn't formula and it doesn't fit your expectation of right and wrong?

That fail or succeed?