Yours is beautiful. Mine is simply to photograph the earth from space.
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This is mine too. If I got the chance to go to space but I was guaranteed to die in the next six months, I would still do it. It would fulfill basically everything I wanted through my life. I know that sounds crazy, but my dad and I have talked about this a lot and we both agree that it would be worth it. I really hope commonplace spaceflight for civilians happens in my lifetime.
A small flash that is weather resistant. Sometimes I want to use a flash in the rain.
Olympus makes the FL-LM3. It's awesome - tiny, weather sealed and powerful enough for most on-camera uses, including bounce flash provided you're not trying to light a massive room. It's also very useful as an optical trigger.
I yearn to encounter my grandparents in their youth, capturing the essence of their daily lives.
This would be pretty damn cool. I was just going to say for Panasonic's eye AF to work, but yours wins.
I look up to the Fashion Photographers of the 90s like Peter Lindbergh. Pinnacle for me would be getting on Vogue with picture that are just as impactful.
It turns out that my great joy is seeing people who did a shoot with using my pic as their profile pic. Creating an image that someone feels represents them at that level just feels amazing.
I walked into my friend’s home a couple of weeks ago and saw a photo I shot of him snowboarding last year printed up on his wall. Huge compliment 👌
Years ago on a camping trip, I took a silhouette photo of my friend and his girlfriend kissing with the sunset in the background. She had it printed, framed, and hung it in their house. It was an amazing feeling and also served as the moment I thought, “hey maybe I could make something of this.”
One time I used my film camera to take pictures during an icebreaker event organized by uni for the first years. Those pictures are still up on the page and they’re some of the best ones I’ve taken.
This is my favourite thing about being an event photographer
I’m not a professional photographer, just a beginner but I just generally love taking pictures of my friends or people around me. So when they use the pics on their social media or in their albums, I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Like you were able to create that memory for someone. I think that’s one of the best parts of photography.
I always thought it would be cool to document a highly regarded movie being made with photography. Being able to shoot preproduction and everything afterwards would be so cool.
Like something on the scale of Oppenheimer
Three words: Nude supermodel portfolios
I just want money so I can buy all the gear I want, and only do gigs I like.
Shiiiieeeeettttt. At this point just having IG post the same image I see on screen of my phone without removing the image quality would be nice.
Be the most famous event photographer in the world getting paid 200 000k per event. Obviously I will need a personal assistant, privat jet and Koenigsegg Gemera waiting at the airport.
This is all I think about now that I take on client work on the side. How can I quit my full time job to do full time photography and buy a farm, join the country club of my dreams, and a brand new Land Rover 😭
I would want to go back in time and shoot for 1970's playboy.
I would buy Hasselblad - not a camera, but the company. And I'd light a fire under it. We'd finish projects, we'd launch new products, and return the brand to glory.
What do you think is currently missing?
A plan. A roadmap. A vision.
OK. What is your plan, your roadmap, or your vision?
I want a huge room. Huge like a hangar. I have a few ideas and need larger spaces. Renting or scoutingbis hell
Honestly, I wish I had the creativity, eye, and motivation that other photographers have when they create their art.
That's not a pipe dream at all and you can still become better that you ever dreamed of.
It's a matter of practice.
If we’re dreaming here… time travel back to 1960 with a GFX 100 II, meet up with Marilyn Monroe, and spend a whole weekend hanging out with her at her favorite spots and shooting candid photos.
Invisibility...
I would like to photograph Jupiter from one of its moons.
A camera that produces zero noise in any scenario and a high MP count. Basically something like the Hasselblad on steroids. Also a lens that goes from like 14mm to around 300mm with a fast aperture, and the ability to hover and teleport so no shot is out of bounds lol.
10-800mm f1.2 pancake that weighs 100g
A complete dust, debris and weather sealed body. To the point I can drag the setup through sand and drown in water and the sensor will never pick up any little particle. Sensor dirt drives me crazy.
A full 6x6 digital back for hasselblad 500 series for under 10k
A digital camera with really vintage design like Exacta or old Leicas
Being a ghost with a camera, if you know what I mean…
Invisible, unobstructed, and being able to get anywhere I want with no limitations.
Buy a reflecting vest and a walkie-talkie. Is a Great passepartout. And study some social engineering, practice It and work on self esteem. You'll be surprised at how many Doors you can open
I’d want to do a whole frame by frame photo series of the guy who changes that one lightbulb every year. I have zero resources to do so though ( a helicopter, the gear required etc.). I just think it’d be super interesting to follow him up through the clouds, back down, the endurance required, how careful he is handling the bulb.
An X100 with a GFX sensor, and a 35mm 1.4 FOV lens.
To teleport to exciting locations (with my gear) all over the world and be back in time to pick up my kid from daycare. This would also allow me to extend my client base, since I could just show up wherever.
I'd want a sponsor funding me enough to quit my job as a school janitor and work full time on my art and documentary projects. No budget issues, ability to purchase all equipment i Need and maybe a publication deal. A wet Dream that would make my therapist Rich treating the imposter syndrome It would cause me
My 'photographer's fantasy' is be to be 'discovered' by some Great-Expectations-like patron who would ingratiate me into being an actual artist.
Money and free time to travel the world photographing different cultures
Every camera manufacturer to include a perfect recreation film sim with a complete catalog of every film ever made so that I could remove post processing almost entirely outside of correcting occasional mistakes.
Fuji xPro-4
P1000 with the same optics and size, but a larger sensor. Physics makes it what it is, but damn is it so close to being perfect.
If Nikon just put a faster processor in there it'd be damn near perfect as it is - anyone already dropping 1k on thst camera would easily pay another 200 for a faster processor to power the thing
High speed rail throughout most of the US. I drive to where I want to photograph, but I hate every minute of it. I would rather sleep or edit while traveling.
Marketing, I wish to be free to pursue my passion. I produce great images. I have sold many prints. My photos have been blown up and used as art in a locker room. But I work in IT, bored and frustrated but scared to take the leap to market myself.
To be able to sit out in the woods taking pictures and make money off my photos.
Being given appropriate credit for my work where it’s due. People have all the time in the world to write a dissertation on what a lovely wedding they had or how amazing their new little addition is, and while I don’t disagree, it’s odd that they couldn’t seem to spare five seconds to add a tag… this is so much of how we build a consumer base [sighs in photographer]
If I could get back all the thousands of deleted photos from a time when I don’t know any better or the images on drives I don’t have anymore that would be pretty fucking incredible. Don’t delete your images.. ever. Seriously. It’s a philosophy worth having.
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