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>In office eight hours a day five days a week.>Making ten total commutes, five with morning sun, five at golden hourGee i dunno anon
people manage to have hobbies outside a 9-5, you can too if you truly enjoy doing itthat being said being economically independent does make things much easier
>>4467763If 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>>4467768anons 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.
>>4467763I 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
>>4467763Most people who work full time have enough time left over for hobbiesIt's easy to just always bring a camera with you
>>4467763It’s only for people who live in diversity shitholes and idyllic 100% white rural areasYou 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 summerbarring 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 eventtook this with my $50 fuji f70exr with a bunch of mold on the lensit 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
>>4467847looks 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>repeatSaturday 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.
>>4467988that’s kinoprint it and frame it blackgive it to someone you love
>>4467958>I take a walk in a bland neighbour hood with some artificial mini forests.NIGGA DRIVE SOMEWHERETake a daytrip to a neighbouring city, you live in Germany so you live in an extremely densely populated country!>muh immigrants taking my momeyNobody cares, people can do this shit on a shoestring budget and you can too on a german salary.
>>4467958Where one is ruled by Jews freedom becomes an empty dream.
>>4467763>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.
>>4467994No one loves truckers, not even themselves.
>>4467958i 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
>>4468072yeah, 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 bedthat'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 thisI 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 dayThe 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 drivingToo 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. >>4468083You 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>startupsyeah, 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>>4468082lel 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 pictureshere'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 sleepif 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
