Topic: what turns you on?

[gricko]

i love to go after texture. portraits of less fortunate or elderly.... rocks, grass, rust
and emotion. kids. happy people. sad people..... sun.

but being very shy, have problems interacting with other people i would like to take photos of. lost too many cool shots. how do you take care of that?

[This-is-damion]

tits and ass mainly. 

[This-is-damion]

..although now i feel obliged to provide a more sensible answer.

Photographically speaking i love street photography, love the old classic combo of tri-x in a rangefinder.  or grainy B&W social documentry stuff.    I love the old picture post photographer stuff, northern grime and so on. 

I admit i couldnt do it myself, i guess shyness is a factor (belive it or not)  that is its still alien to me to point a camera in a strangers face, being 6 foot 3 with a shaved head i guess its hard to blend in.

[Dave_M]

Here are a few things that float my boat:
- grain
- texture in b+w (especially sand!)
- water/cloud blur with long exposures
- a nice selenium/sepia tone
- square format

Put them all together and I go weak at the knees 

As for shyness I keep remembering the following quote:

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

[Rogerrr]

for me...it's usually trying something new

[tread]

emotion. photographically, always trying to find it...it can be elusive but the hunt, the hunt is a turn on.

[outofcontxt]

It used to be LSD...uh, I think I'm having a flashback as we speak... ;-) but these days it's gritty, grainy black & white, blur (especially at long exposures), urban scenes, square format, oh did I mention blur?