Thread 4467763

Is the concept of always having a camera on you to photograph daily life something reserved for the rich (or unemployed)?
How are you supposed to create a body of work based on day-to-day experiences when you're in an office for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, slaving away for corporate overlords?
The only time I can see myself doing this is on a month-long holiday overseas or something.
How the fuck do they do it?

>>4467763 (OP)
>In office eight hours a day five days a week.
>Making ten total commutes, five with morning sun, five at golden hour
Gee i dunno anon

people manage to have hobbies outside a 9-5, you can too if you truly enjoy doing it

that being said being economically independent does make things much easier

>>4467763 (OP)
If you go out on weekends and always bring your camera and you manage to shoot about 3 rolls a weekend it's +-100 pictures. A year of doing that will bring the total to 5000 pictures. I'm sure you can extract 100 cool pictures from 5000.
>inb4 I say rolls but that works for digishit too

>>4467763 (OP)

>>4467768
anons right; herzog mainly photographed after his day job. take the camera with you and shoot on the way home from the office, get some steps in. just dont be lazy bud.

>>4467763 (OP)
I work approximately 120 days out of the year, limited by legal fatigue restrictions to about 140. Paid a salary with additional allowances if we're away from home and a weird arcane overtime system that nobody can ever figure out. Most of my monthly work days are in two five day trips away. Get paid just over 100k.

The rest of the time I photograph. On time outside when I'm at on away trips, I photograph.

9-5 isn't the only existence.

i don't leave the house without a camera. just go shoot on your lunch break or before or after work. shoot while running errands. shoot while socializing. shoot the morning light in your room when you wake up. ez

>>4467763 (OP)
Most people who work full time have enough time left over for hobbies
It's easy to just always bring a camera with you

>>4467763 (OP)
It’s only for people who live in diversity shitholes and idyllic 100% white rural areas

You can not live in the globohomo meritocracy suburbs and photograph anything good

just keep a shitty <$200 apsc dslr or a m43/1in camera in your glovebox/backpack, you can find stuff like canon 7d or pentax k5 for $100-150 body only, something you wont care about leaving in a 140f hot car in the summer

barring that a $50 point and shoot

the most important rule of photography is have fun and be yourself

i only bring my nice full frame brick of a camera when im going on a trip or doing something photocentric like a event

took this with my $50 fuji f70exr with a bunch of mold on the lens

it was tempting me to do some financially disgusting things that include a $800 car payment for the next 5 years i just kept looking back when i was running errands that day (autozone, petco, lunch and bank) and i kept going "fuck this looks hard as fuck" everytime i walked past the grey had a nice purple glimmer in the sun like my evo 9 did

the image quality of it objectively sucks vs my phone but i like the look i can get out of it

>>4467847
looks generic to me but hey if >you like it thats all that matter s

>Wake up 5:30
>Commute to office by car from 6:00 to 7:00
>work until 17:00
>commute home plus stop by at Rewe supermarket
>arrive home at 19:00 dead tired
>cook and eat until 20:00
>waste 1-2 hours browsing 4chan and so
>wasting money buying new camera gear that I barelly use
>sleep
>repeat

Saturday usually cleaning the house, doing laundry, getting back some sleep, family visit. Sunday if I'm lucky I take a walk in a bland neighbour hood with some artificial mini forests. That's, apart from vacation, the only time slot in my life where I can do some photos. And since we have so many gibs for people that refuse to work I pay around 60% of my payment back as taxes, which is absolute crazy if you think about it. So no way of saving, investing and escaping this cycle. That's life in Germany as a middle class worker. A country with apparently good "work life balance".

Make time for your art.

I work 90 hours a week and 70 of those on-duty. I still have time for trucker snaps.

No excuses.

>>4467988
that’s kino
print it and frame it black
give it to someone you love

>>4467958
>I take a walk in a bland neighbour hood with some artificial mini forests.
NIGGA DRIVE SOMEWHERE
Take a daytrip to a neighbouring city, you live in Germany so you live in an extremely densely populated country!

>muh immigrants taking my momey
Nobody cares, people can do this shit on a shoestring budget and you can too on a german salary.

>>4467958
Where one is ruled by Jews freedom becomes an empty dream.

>>4467763 (OP)
>How are you supposed to create a body of work based on day-to-day experiences when you're in an office for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, slaving away for corporate overlords?

I live in a city and walk to work, which also happens to be prime time in terms of light. I get 30min of day of photo shooting at a minimum, longer if I decide to detour.

>>4467994
No one loves truckers, not even themselves.

>>4467958
i would kill my self after 2 weeks of this. why do you have a 10-hour work day and burn 2 hours every day just driving

>>4468072
yeah, normies are retarded. imagine being too afraid to live free so you do the 10hour work day +2 hour commute for 6 days a week bullshit because it gives you "safety". lol. most people don't deserve to be alive.

>>4467958
>7:00 get woken up by my kid
>8:00 bring kid to day care
>8:20 start coding
>11:00 work's over. free time starts now
>14:00 fetch kid from daycare
>14:30 free time continues
>19:00 kid goes to bed
>21:00 I go to bed
that's my day every day in germany. I run a small software business and make a comfortable living. because I wasn't afraid to break free from the cattle programming they try to force you into. you were. you played it safe. now you pay for it.

>>4468072
>i would kill my self after 2 weeks of this
I thought the same first but same as with prison: Humans get used to it. But it explains why depression and burnouts are a big thing in Germoney. Only leftists that don't work praise our work culture because of all muh benefits and safety

>why do you have a 10-hour work day
The law says an 8 hour + 1 hour break is the standard but no one cares. If the boss asks you to finish the work before leaving, you have no other choice. Otherwise it's Arbeitsverweigerung and you can get fired.

>and burn 2 hours every day just driving
Too expensive to live in the city close to the work place. Only rich or poor who get it paid by the state can afford it. Middle class lives in suburbs.

>>4468083
You are extremely lucky or you lie. Germany is not a country for startups, the failure rate is higher than anywhere. Running a business in 1,5h per day sounds very comfy though.

>>4468101
>startups
yeah, that's part of the propaganda to keep you in the system. small businesses thrive. but normies always think "business = millionaire". you can absolutely make a comfortable living without having a boss in germany. even with the shit economy and high taxes. but people watch "hoehle der loewen" style propaganda and think they need millions to get started and anything that doesn't make millions is a failure.

next time you hear a business owner lamenting about how bad it is: he's complaining he can't afford a yacht or can't justify buying lambo. he's not complaining that he can't pay rent.

also next time you go out look at all those shops there. the ones that exist for a longer time are profitable enough for the owner to keep them running. by definition. even the turk kiosks around the corner - do you really believe they would do the work of running a kiosk if it would pay more to just get buergergeld or just get a normie job? open your eyes, man

>>4468101
>>4468082
lel it's standard to break labor laws and you're not even allowed to do candid street photography in your meager leisure time? the us is a barbaric joke country, but at least i have some free time and can go take pictures
here's my routine:
>(4days per week)
>10am wake up.
>10:45 bike to work
>11-7 work
>walk around town for 0.5-3 hours and shoot, or see friends
>go home, eat dinner, look at 4chan and process photos
>1-3am go to sleep

>(3 days)
>wake up sometime after noon
>any combination of chores, errands, walking around, gaming, doing nothing, going to events
>1-3am go to sleep

if i had the determination to wake up earlier, i could even walk to work and gain a lot of shooting time in the morning.
car commuter life is something i cannot wrap my head around. at least on mass transit you can nap or read or take pictures. driving a car, you can do nothing but listen to audio and get traffic stress. i don't think there's an amount you could pay me to waste away literal hours of my life rotting in a car each day, or secluding in a suburb for that matter. time is the one resource you can never recoup, anon.

>>4468125
>at least on mass transit you can nap or read or take pictures.
in germany on mass transit you get stabbed with an axe so you better don't sleep

>>4467958
>2 hour commute a day
nigga why dont you find another job closer to where you live?

>>4468460
>just find another job

>>4467763 (OP)
I usually take little walks around my office building outside and will take a couple photos of stuff i like. There were these trees that were blooming this summer and I got to capture all their phases

That said I dont take pictures EVERY single day because then I would just end up with hundreds of photos of my same old office building, but I generally get at least a couple in every week

>>4468125
It always baffles me to see the monstrosities the Americans call """pizza""".

>>4468593
>im not even going to attempt making my situation more bearable

>>4468460
germany is a dense country with horriffic traffic and terrible public transport. here it takes me 45 minutes to drive roughly 20km. and that's when I'm lucky. on the autbahn.
if I took the train/bus it would take even longer and I might get stabbed by a migrant

>>4468673
>Germany
>dense
Come on now, it's just a few big cities with a lot of country between.

>>4468697
jobs are in the cities. rest is poorfag nazi-voting trash regions

>>4468602
I hope you're not from Europe (specially southern Europe), Latin America, Africa, or the Middle East.

>>4468721
So what if I am?

>>4468721
amerishart mad lmao

>>4468716
>jobs are mostly service industry aka nothing of value
>economic inequality go up
>must import people who will accept lower wages and longer hours and will take on more debt due to having no family roots in the country = more jobs numbers, higher artificial productivity metrics, higher GDP, higher profits
>wonder why everyone with roots in the land hates you and will adopt any ideology they need to in order to hate you successfully
Economics as a field of study, and "measuring how "good" the economy is" have doomed the human race

so again, from the top

I work more hours a week than everyone on this board I would bet the farm on it. I work 7 days a week and go months without time off.

i still make time for my work, and you should too.

Any excuse not to do it is purely a skill issue. don't get out-skilled by a fat truck driver with crippling depression and 0 dollars in his bank account.

>>4468955
photography is inexorably tied to travel but the actual photo taking takes zero time

someone who works literally 24/7 but travels can take many photos but can't have a wife, a dog, be a present father, etc
someone with no job who walks back and forth to the food bank can take many photos
someone who works 8 hours a day and has to manage their home life can take photos of their cat, dog, and kids and hope they get the weekend to themselves

you can tell who here is a drifter loser, and who is a working man and gigging wedding snapshitter, by how many photos they post of their pets

>>4468956

here's the other thing you're forgetting, I'm 73 feet long, 80k pounds and 14 feet tall, I can't just go anywhere to shoot.

All of the national parks = banned. Most state parks, banned. Can't go into the inner cities much except for designated routes. Can't stop along most of the scenic highways. Most deliveries have rigid appointments so I usually don't have more than a few minutes to shoot if at all, sometimes I've had to wake up and drive straight to the location without even stopping to pee.

The huge advantage I have over almost everyone here is, yes I do travel, and I get paid for it, well, I used to, now I spend my time in repair shops waiting to get fixed up.

pet photography is zero skill required oh nice you can take pictures of your pets I can do it with a cell phone. level up your skills and shoot other people's pets in foreign countries, pic related.

>>4468957
All photography is zero skill required to a reductionist
"Oh nice, you bought a _____ and pointed it at _____ without fucking up the settings"

>>4468957
>level up your skills and shoot other people's pets in foreign countries, pic related.
I don't want Reeves chasing my ass for revenge.

>>4468963
>John wick but his dog got AIDS instead of deathitis

>>4468963
>cinefag low key threatening to shoot Moop's dog
Classy

>>4467763 (OP)
I think this is one of the single most retarded posts i've ever seen.

It literally takes a second to take a photo and if you can not even think of a single thing to shoot during the course of your day then clearly have no business on a photography board

>>4467763 (OP)
God this board is just autism lmao

>>4467770
If I got 100 cool photos from 5000 I'd probably just leave the hobby altogether as it's a complete failure considering the cost of each 36exp film roll + dev and scan.

>>4468970
>Moop's dog
If he ever had one it probably died from neglect by now

>>4467763 (OP)
I come home, eat, chill for half an hour and go outside for an hour or so.
I forced myself to adapt this behaviour because looking at the clock and counting down the hours before I had to go to bed again melted away my life.
Giving myself this one hour, leaving my phone at home and taking my Ricoh with me instead improved my mental health.

>>4467763 (OP)
I work retail and I carry two cameras in my bag not including my iPhone 16 Pro Max.

I have a Sony A6100 with both a 3.5 15-60 and a 1.8 50mm prime.

I also have a Pentax 115m with a roll of Kodak UltraMax 400 for when I want to shoot film.

When I'm off work and I go out for the sole purpose of shooting photos, I carry my Leica SL2 with a 60mm Macro Elmarit R.

Most of the time I don't use them, but when I do its 100000% worth having them.

(plus I have the added possibility of someone stealing my shit and getting an upgrade for free through my insurance.)