Photography during a pandemic

[olivermoss]

How are you approaching this? Are you shooting or not? Are you doing things to stay in practice while inside? Taking up indoor photography? Joining the macro trend?

I've put my thoughts and approach here. What are your thoughts?

Comments

[falena]

I'm making an effort to use my Reflex rather than my smartphone. Normally my Reflex would come out on outings, trips or other special occasions. I'm using it to take pictures of my daughters these days, mostly, and trying to get better at portraits.

(I read your thoughts)

I go out once a week to a local city farm to buy fruit and veg. I go on foot and do a pretty scenic route but I don't feel comfortable taking my camera with me. I must say I'm in Italy, one of the worst-hit countries and with the strictest lockdown conditions in the world, and I feel like 'wasting time' with photography during my only 'essential outing' would be disrespectful if not even illegal. Does that make sense?

[olivermoss]

That makes a lot of sense. You put it better than I did. Me doing my usual photoshoots feels disrespectful to all the people just trying to get food or a bit of normalcy.

We aren't as hard hit here, but that is due to people cooperating and following a lot of rules, it feels rude to all the work people are doing for me to take advantage of it and stress people's patience in that way.

I am just south of the first known break out area in the US and one of the worst. Yet, we've kept numbers down so much we were able to send medical equipment to hard hit NYC. I am not going to trample all over that just to get some pictures.

[zhelana]

I did a shoot of my pets, but they were not very cooperative. Going to try stuffed animals in the yard sometime. Not sure what else to do.

[olivermoss]

Pets are hard to photograph!

It's hard to come up with idea, and as I said the group I am in are mostly taking pictures of cheese shredders.