Confessions of a neurotic photographer.

[Laurence Cremetti]

I trained in the Psychiatric profession, many years back. I worked in psychotherapy of 6 schools, no less.
I'm telling you this so that you know that I know neurosis when I see it.........

I have it!!!

Since returning from the last gig, I can't shut the "buzz" off. I decided to "up my game" and once again, (as I did over Christmas), I began experimenting with glass subjects such as a decanter and wine, (no, I didn't drink any).
I pondered the resulting images, rejected them as being "boring" and started again. Same result.
So, I took the images to a friend.... "What do you think?" I asked.
"Fine, good......" He replied.
I took them to my wife, "what do you think?" "Nice" she said.
I banged my head on the desk. I reviewed images from Pbase, Flickr, and other sites, I post-processed all the images again....... I hated them. I was bored by their ordinary-ness.
I labelled myself "neurotic," and vowed to start again.

Is it just me? Do you struggle against yourself? What bugs you about your own photos? Anything?

 

[Hamish Gill]

same deal!
sometimes there is just to much that has already been done to make doing anything feel worth while doing!
do you know what i mean?

But then, it just has to become about enjoying doing it, forgetting that someone else has done it and appreciating the aesthetic of an image for what it is

this for example, i posted the other day... Its just a picture of a book!
but for me there is a niceness to the photo, Davie said it was relaxing to look at... he appreciated the aesthetic

I suppose what i am trying to say is that yeah, i think the neurosis is there for everyone... especially when other people just give you a half arsed " yeah, thats nice" after you have spent ages tweaking something! But the if joy is in the creating, the learning and the achieving the end result can give you a lot more pleasure even if other people dont get much out of it!

 

[Davie Hudson]

I'm expecting a serious bout of neurosis in the next year luckily I have you guys to bounce ideas off

 

[Laurence Cremetti]

It's not just me then. Good......... I think.

With this in mind, can I post two more images in the critique section, please?
I want them HAMMERED. Be evil, complain, criticise, shred!!!!

I'm off now to post them under the title SAVAGE THIS!

 

[Allan Batchelor]

Laurence its always a hard one to decide if its good enough to use and family friends seem to always say good things about them as its right thing to do in there mind as they don't want **** you off so you can always ask us we don't mind ******* people off