srt101fan

Wow!

Who says it is?

And what is "photophy" ......🤔

Mustang1

True.

srt101fan

Ah, how nice it would be to know what is true....🤔

JeffreyKupiec Loc: Illinois

Sorry spelled the word wrong don’t have
Spellcheck on Ugly HegdgeHog

Abo

because when the sheets are short the bed seems longer

Abo

You fvcken god you!

Abo

Would you like to say how you feel about Jackson Pollocks "Blue Poles"?

Abo

DP

Abo

It's the American spelling of "for toffee"... isn't it?

SueScott Loc: Hammondsville, Ohio

Has "Chris T" returned???

huemax Loc: High Point, NC

Thanks for all comments on this subject of discussion. What is "A real photographer" My answer is every human being who can see. Another "A" is amateur who enjoy capture images and printing-displaying. The "P" stands for professional? They are trying to make profit, paying taxes through photographic technology. Yes, silver halide to capture photo=light images replaced by semi conductor electron transfer. This I mean, the photographic FINISHING process had been totally changed. We can see it in two words; the darkroom vs. lightroom. One wet your hands and smelling chemicals vs. dry hand sitting on a comfortable chair. In addition; prints for catalogs, brochure, post cards are just about gone, replaced by www.http...I remember a dawn of new photography in June of 1990, Kodak invited me to their seminar displaying the Photoshop with B&W images. I think it was meant for news media magazine photographers. Then, commercial industrial photographers. Here this area has the highest concentrations of pro furniture-home furnishing/accessories. The last phase of this graphic revolution, was people event pro's who are engaged in portrait and wedding. I shot a job last summer for country club reception, with 35 years camera handling experience with 5K updated DSLR, but many shots I saw in i-Phone XX were better looking than my shots. The automatic 7 layer imaging with ISO (used to be ASA) 256K while I was used to use 0.4K film.

EdU239 Loc: The Northeast

If they are shooting in Auto or Program the pictures probably aren’t out of focus or under exposed. But why single those settings out when there’s Autofocus, Aperture and Shutter priority, and auto ISO. Even if you’re shooting on Manual, cameras have built in biases, e.g., reviewers always seem to mention Canon’s colors, and you could argue that you’re not a professional unless you use Photoshop or some other editing tool to create the image that YOU want. A professional is paid to use the appropriate tools to obtain the desired result for a client or purchaser. Someone might enjoy the challenge to get it “right” in camera, but that in itself does not make them a professional.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

All true...

BEING a professional is a multi-pronged fork of a job that ultimately pays your bills. The job involves sales, accounting, business management, disciplined organization, and many tasks that every business needs to stay in business.

In many instances, actual behind-the-camera photography is a SMALL part of the entire job. Most pros find that they need to be selling or photographing as often as possible, so they build a team of others to execute the details, which vary broadly according to the type of photography sold.

I knew one pro, back in the 1990s, who had about ten million dollars of annual volume across his four photography related businesses. His annual lab bill with us was around $2.6 million. He had three sales people, about 50 teams of seasonal school portrait photographers, around 15 teams of "graduation handshake" photographers, several senior portrait photographers, a team of bean counters, a VP of finance, an office manager and a team of operations people, a director of photography, an equipment manager, a customer service manager and two customer service agents, a fleet of vehicles... In short, it was a regional powerhouse of a school portrait business.

Getting it "right" in camera is a broad concept. There are so many different aspects of "right" that it would take a book to describe them all. You have to get ENOUGH at the camera to produce something good, later. What that includes will vary with the circumstances and the subject. So yes, using an appropriate tool for the job is rule one.

Mike1017

I totally get it. He does not care about the quality of the images or his equipment, he is capturing the moments that he sees in his travels. In his own mine he loves what he is doing. Obviously he is making money at what he is doing.Very interesting. Mike

JBuckley

I think you hit the [nail on the head. ]

Being a photographer might be "a real person" that enjoys capturing (all) elements of [life on this planet,] and using any technical sources that are available to him or her.

Seeing, appreciating the art, and capturing it to reflect on and share later, becomes a part of your soul.

While enjoying the photo works by high school and college students, it makes you realize that the price of the camera, (technology), and their experience in photography, [doesn't create] the better photographer.

The prize for best photo, is always in the "eye of the beholder". (Not the price of the photo print.)