What makes a "photographer"?
Feb 26, 2020 15:03:01 #
lositton
Loc: Pensacola, FL
CHG_CANON wrote:
The easiest way to make money as a photographer is to sell your equipment.
So true, but I keep buying more!
Feb 26, 2020 22:55:31 #
Quote from somewhere: An amateur shows you all his photos, a pro only shows you his good shots.---???? Some truth in this, I have frequently looked to left and right and quickly dunked a shot into the trashcan. I am not a pro but I have shot some 14,000 pix for which I was paid. Employer found that I was a somewhat accomplished amateur and when photos were needed I was it, instruction manuals, record shot of processes, etc. Some magazine work.
Feb 28, 2020 02:05:17 #
I equate it the way I do flying. I am a man with a license to fly airplanes, but don't call myself a pilot. Pilots fly airplanes for a living. I also love to take photographs, but I don't claim to be a photographer. Unless someone wants to buy a picture from me.
Feb 28, 2020 07:58:48 #
craneman wrote:
I equate it the way I do flying. I am a man with a license to fly airplanes, but don't call myself a pilot. Pilots fly airplanes for a living. I also love to take photographs, but I don't claim to be a photographer. Unless someone wants to buy a picture from me.
My dictionary defines pilot as "a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft". There are amatuer pilots just as there are amateur photographers. I wouldn't care to ride in an airplane flown by someone who isn't a pilot.
Feb 28, 2020 08:01:50 #
BRENDAis SCOTTISH wrote:
Is it the camera..shooting in raw..number of pictures taken..passion..can cell phones count? Do you have to sell a photo to be a 'professional'.the number of photos taken..I am very interested in what everyone's opinions are. Let's make this thread non-argumentative.
It is no one thing. A photographer has a vision of an image and understands which tools to use to achieve that vision and how to use those tools.
Feb 28, 2020 11:43:47 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
My dictionary defines pilot as "a person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft". There are amatuer pilots just as there are amateur photographers. I wouldn't care to ride in an airplane flown by someone who isn't a pilot.
Feb 28, 2020 11:45:38 #
dsmeltz wrote:
It is no one thing. A photographer has a vision of an image and understands which tools to use to achieve that vision and how to use those tools.
It simply depends on his vision and utilization of any tools as to how the image, the degree of which, turns out. Still a photographer.
Feb 28, 2020 11:50:45 #
Feb 28, 2020 12:01:43 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Imagine your photography if you only had the best equipment.
Feb 28, 2020 13:09:24 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Imagine your photography if you only had the best equipment.
Why shouldn't I let my equipment do all the work for me, that's why I bought the best and paid through the nose . . .
Feb 28, 2020 13:46:30 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
If Ansel took it, it's a photograph; if I took it, it's merely a picture
Feb 28, 2020 13:47:38 #
If Ansel Adams was the photographer worthy of that name, he'd do a better job Straight Out Of Camera, like a real photographer.
Feb 28, 2020 15:27:26 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
If Ansel Adams was the photographer worthy of that name, he'd do a better job Straight Out Of Camera, like a real photographer.
Who is Ansel Adams
Feb 28, 2020 23:14:07 #
Feb 29, 2020 10:18:51 #
FotoHog wrote:
Why shouldn't I let my equipment do all the work for me, that's why I bought the best and paid through the nose . . .
Sure beats buying an easel, canvas, box of paint & a bunch of paint brushes, just to get a lousy picture😁
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