Basically, a photographer is somebody who thinks about photos even when he doesn't have a camera in hand.
I remember reading somewhere that you are a "photographer" when you can call yourself a photographer with some conviction (and with a straight face!)
Your over-thinking it. Its much simpler than that. Photographer:a person who takes photographs.
"Imagine". As in: form a (mental) image = visualize. "Pre-visualisation" is a tautology.
Actually seeing the thing is not visualizing, but seeing.
Pre-visualization is my cup of tea (or two) in the morning. This old brain needs the boost before doing any visualization.
So the chap who shoots sports isn't a photographer because he cannot previsualize a concept. I suppose he(or she) would merely be a sports image capturer, not a sports photographer by this standard. I think there are some high paid snapshooters out there who sell many photos to publications and people have them hanging on walls and in other prominent places. Hmm...
Why is pre-visualization a requirement? I rarely work that way.... Usually I have a feeling about a place, take out the camera and explore on the ground glass. It's a process of discovery... and what better way to discover than in 2d?
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Sorry, I didnt mean pre-visualization. I meant taking the time to think about the image before making the exposure. Framing, composition, shutter speed, f-stop, etc. I dont pre-visualize either.
Mike
Correct. Except that some of us spell it correctly with an s, not a z!
Sorry, I didn’t mean pre-visualization. I meant taking the time to think about the image before making the exposure. Framing, composition, shutter speed, f-stop, etc. I don’t pre-visualize either.
Oh! You mean you FART when you take a photograph?!
I FART too!
(Click the link: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/fart.htm )
Photo Engineer was right. I'm basically being lighthearted but there is something else.
I have just had a very big financial setback and I have to consider ways to create income for myself until I can get back on my feet. In considering my options, I am thinking whether I can make enough money to make ends meet or at least bring them closer together.
So, asking whether I'm a photographer is an attempt me to feel more confident about myself and my chances to make some extra money to put a little more food on the table.
From the answers above, i get the impression that there are no bad photographers.
Only photographers, and people who aren't.
Can't be right.
Apply any modifiers in front of "Photographer" that you'd like. Bad...good..wedding...sports...fine art..lousy..stuck-up...beginner...or whatever. Even "non-" I suppose.
No such thing as pre-visualisation. Visualisation is already pre in its implication.
Steve.
Sorry, I didnt mean pre-visualization. I meant taking the time to think about the image before making the exposure. Framing, composition, shutter speed, f-stop, etc. I dont pre-visualize either.
Mike
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