Are you a lone photographer, or social?

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Which do you prefer? Shooting on your own, or shooting with a friend / wife / husband / kids etc.

Me personally I'm a social photographer. You can't beat having a good natter with someone as you're walking up a hill to catch that sunrise.
Saying that, I do like it sometimes though when I'm sat there on top of a hill, pitch black, so quiet, with a cup of tea, and the world is waking up below me :)

So, which are you, lone or social?
 
i'm somewhere in between

I like to be with others, so I can learn from better photographers so that would make me a social snapper.

BUT

I don't know any........so that makes me a lone snapper.
 
:LOL: I've told you we still need to sort a trip to Anglesey again :D
 
your just looking for an excuse to get that velcro suit out again :eek:


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Bit of both, it's nice to meet others togs, but birding and wildlife tends to a be a lone pursuit anyway.
 
Absolutely positively both.
I love shooting with other people, it's good to bounce ideas off them & generally have a natter when you shoot.
But at the same time, I also love shooting by myself - I tend to forget everything when shooting by myself and really, really get into it.
 
I think I'm both, totally depending on whether the other people with me are photographers or not. Otherwise, I wouldn't make much of a good company as I'll be too into trying to get a shot right and not really able to chat about other stuff. :p (It's terribly hard for me to get a shot right cause I don't know what I'm doing. :D) Same as digitalfailure, no one I hang out with are really that keen on photography so I'm pretty much a lone photographer. :p
 
very solo, girlfriend doesnt share my passion so i dont shoot anything while shes about,

im a fairly lonesome guy anyway so id prefer to shoot alone, hence my no shows at meets!
 
Usually a loner. Well for my mountain photo's anyway. There is something to be said having a whole mountain to yourself in the extreme early hours. Perfect peace and tranquilty. The only places I know where you can only hear the wind and the birds and nothing else. No cars no nothing ahhhhhh :)
 
*sob*sob*... how I wish I have a mountain to go trek up on. Cambridgeshire is flatter than Keira Knightley! :(
 
Solo here unfortunately... antisocial working hours and an complete lack of social interaction skills make it hard for me to get chatting to folk....

All my mate are into shooting Video so when I go to race meeting with them they tend to find a spot and stay there for hours on end, whereas I prefer to have a leisurely stroll around the track, taking in a lot of differant angles.
 
Loner :( like many, the only photogs I know are online, plus I am a bit of a geek so Im not the most sociable of people to start with ;)
 
I tend to shoot alone, to be honest (this is beginning to sound like we're all socially inept!)

Never been on a togs meeting, or anything like that, and I tend to shoot alone purely because I have two kids to consider, which can hamper photography efforts that need any degree of patience!
 
bit of both, more often with mates. i think i'm lucky that i have lots of friends that are into it as a hobby or a job nearby. :)
 
Catdaddy said:
I tend to shoot alone purely because I have two kids to consider, which can hamper photography efforts that need any degree of patience!
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Same here for the most part, although I do like to get together "once" in a while when my hectic life will allow it. It's great for me cause I know jack **** so it's all good. :D

Jewel
 
I'm a bit of both too. My girlfriend tend to come with me when I go out to take some photos. I'm quite new to this hobby and I really wish I knew a few people who were into photography too, I have so much to learn and there's nothing like first hand help and advice. Gutted I couldn't make the London meet :(
 
I am often wandering the hills in Derbyshire shooting alone.
 
I'm not sure as I'm fairly new to doing it as seriously as I am taking it at the moment. Like Whitewash my other half doesn't share my passion. I did thoroughly enjoy tramping round the Lake District with camera and tripod in September and I must say I really enjoyed being alone with my gear and the great outdoors.

Had life not got in the way I think I would have enjoyed the London meet - so I'll sit on the fence as a sociable loner!

Mind you if I want to talk photography in the non Cyber sense I can pop two doors down and bother RobertP!!
 
Mainly loner, the wife's not interested and I tried one of the camera clubs and didn't care for it too much. Apart from anything else when you're speaking to people all week it's fine not to have to :)
 
This is interesting.

Here's a slant on the question, are you a loner or a social photographer, and is your answer through choice, or through the fact that you don't know anyone else with the same interest to shoot with?

I tend to find I only know one person locally who's into photography, so apart from that I'm a loner.
If I go out with my wife and / or kids, she will patiently wait around for me to take shots, but I find myself either not bothering to take a shot, or rushing it and fluffing it.

I would be more of a social photographer, but I, like many others, just don't know anyone with the same interest nearby.
 
A total loner. I'm so bad I even get jealous/defensive/envious when I see other people taking photographs at the race meets I go to seeing as when I first went I was the only one and now everyones getting in on the action. Wouldn't mind getting together some time which is why I've joined the local photography club but I'm not sure how long I'll stick that out for.
 
Defiantly on me tod, I think good Photography is only possible alone...or in a world of your own, if you get what I mean.

If I’m out with mates, or non serious shooters, or on a day trip with my boy, even though I can do as I wish, I never seem to come home with reasonable compositions...I guess that means I still like to socialise a little.

Totally different feeling on TP meets however, every ones really keen to get some good shots and share there thoughts and methods...especially the more talented and knowledgeable...very inspiring I find, confidence building if you like.

I've done two meets now, both great, but by the second I'd learnt to retreat into my own space every now and then, give myself time to think and compose the shot.

...so yes, a lone Photographer.
 
I always assumed I worked alone, but then thinking about it, there's always my Video cameraman team-mate around somewhere when I'm away.
It's good to have a shop-talk about f-stops and Photoshopping skills now and again.
Saturday's meet didn't turn out to be as bad a Geek-Fest as I'd feared and now I'm looking forward to the next one. Less coffee/TGIF's and more phots next time, though...
What am I saying? MORE coffee...
 
Bit of both.

As I have 3 kids I enjoy taking them out walking and getting snaps of them playing and having fun. It's also a good excuse to spend an afternoon taking pics of scenery as they generally don't mind hanging around :)

Also, having 3 kids I appreciate quite time, so occasionally I just head off on my own. It's great (y)
 
Marcel said:
This is interesting.

is your answer through choice, or through the fact that you don't know anyone else with the same interest to shoot with?
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Don't know anyone else to shoot with - really wish I did. I've thought about joining a camera club to meet up with some togs but the only one in my area meets on a Friday evening which I can't make :(


Marcel said:
If I go out with my wife and / or kids, she will patiently wait around for me to take shots, but I find myself either not bothering to take a shot, or rushing it and fluffing it.
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My gf and / or kids will come with me but I often find myself under pressure to get the shot done quickly so they doesn't get bored

Marcel said:
I would be more of a social photographer, but I, like many others, just don't know anyone with the same interest nearby.
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Ditto (y)
 
I am lucky i guess, i get to go out in the day on my own and can spend time quietly making my own pictures, then i get to go out with my husband and take more pictures which is also good as it means i can chat to him about things.
TP meets have been good to get a bit better idea of what I am doing, and also she what other people are doing then coming on here and seeing the shots.
So I guess that makes me a sociable loner as well, enjoy both, depending on my mood.
 
I like going out on my own with some personal time but I often take my son with me. He likes to look at nature and doesn't rush me. That being said when I go out with my husband I always feel like I'm ignoring him so I don't take as many photos. I can't wait till the Yorkshire meet to see if taking pics with other photogs is distracting or fun!
 
P-E said:
I am often wandering the hills in Derbyshire shooting alone.
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snap, although i do not wander enough off the beaten track nowadays.
 
I've always taken photographs of /with the family in the past, but they were really no more than snaps. Now I'm trying to improve, I need the company of others, who know what they are doing, so I can learn from them. My husband is the better photographer of the two of us, but perhaps not so enthusiastic? We usually photograph together........too scared to venture out on my own yet.:) Would have loved to gone to the London meet. Maybe next time? (York a bit too far).
 
I do occasionaly take a couple of friends into the mountains with me and both are interested in photography. One more than the other and he has a better camera than me :(.

If its a tripod moment I am always concious I am holding them up even if I am probably not so tend to take the shot handheld instead and not so much thought goes into it. Also I won't take as many shots and instead of looking around looking for good images, I will instead be chatting or joking about with them.

So for my serious shoots....I vont to be alone.
 
:agree:

I'd feel a bit 'posey' armed with my tripod and a set of lenses if I was out with non-enthusiast friends - one of the joys of my time alone in the lakes was that I could take as much time as I wanted to look, compose and execute the shots with no-one to worry about!
 
I am lucky in a way, as I am still single and have no kids or any kind of dependants (apart from my parents) But my dad is an ex pro photographer anyway so he tends to come along, and my mum is so use to it that she is never a problem. Have a few mates in various parts of the country who are also into photography, so I think I fall into the sociable type....however, I do love to just get in the car and go find somewhere new on my own as it means I can go where I choose :D I not have the feeling of holding someone else up or making them bored.

So erm......yeah! think I am probably sociable with a twist of loner :D
 
Definitely a loner. Ive always loved going off on my own anyway, even as a kid, and now I just do it with a camera!

But I prefer it on my own because I feel if I were with others they would see that I was doing things wrong etc. I dont have enough confidence.

That's why I was scared doing my first portrait shoot..........there were people around me! :D They might know that I didnt know what I was doing!!
No-one else in the family likes photography, and no friends do either.

Suits me, sir!! :D
 
I'm thinking of getting together some sort of list of people and where we all are, what sort of photography we like etc.

A sort of list that we can tap into, should we feel like shooting with others locally to us, rather than wait for forum meetups etc.

You see, I'm usually willing to go anywhere locally and take any photographs (I'm photographically 'easy' as it were), and luckily have the time to.
 
Janice said:
But I prefer it on my own because I feel if I were with others they would see that I was doing things wrong etc. I dont have enough confidence.
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Daft! ;) Most of the things which people have probs with can be easily explained in 5 minutes with a camera to hand rather than trying to type out explanations.
 
tough one for me cos I live with another photographer...neither of us can get up early so sunrises just don't happen for us! I sometimes don't want to be taking the same photos as Barry so I either don't bother, unless I really feel I can see a shot or I use my lensbaby to try and get something different. I quite enjoyed doing some photography for Southampton Uni when I worked there, I went out on my own and had a field day at Ocean Village, the Art Gallery etc...stopping for coffee at each location, yep, I think I liked being alone but I enjoy photography either way!
 
Marcel said:
I'm thinking of getting together some sort of list of people and where we all are, what sort of photography we like etc.

A sort of list that we can tap into, should we feel like shooting with others locally to us, rather than wait for forum meetups etc.

You see, I'm usually willing to go anywhere locally and take any photographs (I'm photographically 'easy' as it were), and luckily have the time to.
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Excellent idea! Go for it Marcel (y)
 
Marcel said:
I'm thinking of getting together some sort of list of people and where we all are, what sort of photography we like etc.

A sort of list that we can tap into, should we feel like shooting with others locally to us, rather than wait for forum meetups etc.

You see, I'm usually willing to go anywhere locally and take any photographs (I'm photographically 'easy' as it were), and luckily have the time to.
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What about one of them online map thingys, were everyone sticks a pin in it where they are located and you can mouse over it to see who is at what location? Maybe it would be possible to include what sort of photography you're into too.
 
I thought we already had an online map thingy?
 
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