What kind of photographer do you consider yourself?

[Maris]

I don't use photographer for myself. The word is becoming terminally debased when anyone with any sort of camera using any medium to make nothing more than exposures is magically a photographer.

I have adopted photograph maker as an alternative. It seems right: my pictures really are photographs and, to answer a question I am often asked by kibbitzers; yes, "I do my own developing".

 

[haris]

Wanabe

 

[Joe Lipka]

I follow phases. Used to do that American Western Landscape thing. Did all that Zone and Tone stuff, too. Now, I inhabit a spot I have made up, somewhere between fine art and documentary. It's an odd space, but I find it interesting at the moment.

 

[mtbbrian]

I am a PHOTOGRAPHER! Hear me ROAR!

Brian

 

[Wigwam Jones]

What type of photographer do you consider yourself?

I dunno. The "crying on the inside" kind, I guess.

With apologies to Bill Murray:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100449/quotes

 

[childers-jk]

It's surprising the legs on this thread. I am new here, and still very young in my photography. I enjoy all types of pictures, but basically like stick to b&w. Color leaves me frustrated as does d*gital. I guess if you had to pick I would be a generalist, beginner, learning, picture taker. Still trying to get what I want on the film, so that I can print the scene that I saw.

 

[PatTrent]

What kind?

Very experienced for one thing, after over 25 years of serious photography (and darkroom work), during which time I've done many different kinds of photography--sometimes for love and sometimes for money. I've shot in various formats from 35mm to 4x5 (currently only 6x6 and 35mm).

Now I photograph "found objects" (including landscapes and animals) in black and white strictly for my own pleasure, as the time and effort to mount and frame prints for even a small local exhibition just seems like too much effort these days. I'd rather spend the time shooting and printing. Although I keep telling myself that one of these days I'll frame up some photos and donate them to rest homes and institutions where people are confined and might enjoy some artwork hanging on the walls.

 

[JBrunner]

I'm the hard whiskey drinking, jeep drivin, crypto chrunchin, cigar smokin, gun totin, hat wearin' freak show LF'r your nor'eastern newspaper warned you about.

(well, maybe not crypto crunchin, I know what it looks like, and I stay off)

 

[Daniel_OB]

I am around both, commercial and art photography, and using only B&W films.
My commercial photography revolves around portrait of people and small products. When within art photography I work around urban life in Toronto, Canada. It is documentary photography and street life, for now.

Canada has two faces that fight each other. One face of my Canada is beautiful nature, and second face is people living in Canada.

Soon I will try to shift large part my art photography toward Canadian Nature with hope to become a part of the same. Urban life as part of my photography will get very small documentary portion. I will try.

www.Leica-R.com

 

[davetravis]

The patient kind...and 100% Color APUG!
Long Live Ciba!!!

 

[Alex Bishop-Thorpe]

Art-Bum turned Photo-dork, so technically I should have a better sense of composition than I actually do.
Mostly colour, but black and white is all I can get developed by myself, so I have fun with that. I've done 70-80 Colours rolls in the last year, I love greens. Subject wise, nature, people, landscapes, night shots, and sorta macro and random studies of stuff I find interesting. 35mm and 120, between Rangefinders, an SLR and an old Box Brownie I'm kinda fond of.

I don’t really get some of the replies in this topic disregarding a title of "photographer", if you've been in the game long enough why would you refute a title with so much history behind it? I can understand if you're just new at it, I wouldn’t call myself a photographer either, but with the more seasoned among us it seems strange...but like I said, I'm new, so maybe it'll make more sense later.

 

[picturetaker]

Even though I spend most of my time trying to take a photograph, I am a picture taker. I love taking shots. Occasionally I get luck and take a photograph (at least in my own eyes) and that keeps me going until the next time. I generally use BW but seem to have more rolls of colour sitting in my freezer next to the hamburger and steak. I get the steak when I take a good shot.

Not yet a photograph maker - send all my stuff out for processing. I could develop at home but don't have a film scannner and or course my wife complained when I talked about hanging film in the bathroon to dry. Need a bigger house.

 

[Eric Leppanen]

I am an amateur landscape and architectural photographer, shooting mostly 8x10 these days, both color and B&W. I like going on dedicated photo trips several times a year. Hiking about in the great outdoors is a great antidote to working behind a desk for far too many years.