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At what point did you call yourself a photographer
I've had a camera in my hands since I was a child, but it wasn't untill art school in the late 80's that I said I am a photographer. Mar 01 06 07:27 pm Link When I found that people would pay me to take their picture and were willing to buy my art. Mar 01 06 07:58 pm Link From the first time I pushed a shutter button. The real question is: when did I become any good at it. My answer is that I am never good enough - every time I think I have come up with something that meets some goal that I had, I find a new challenge and and tell myself that I suck. LOL - the "bottle of scotch philosophers/shrinks" might have fun with this but, I like it as a view of things because it makes me work at this thing we do. Mar 01 06 08:17 pm Link J Merrill Images wrote: Now THIS is the question that makes sense. When did you get any good at it. And some people never do. Like me.... LOL Mar 01 06 08:21 pm Link I don't label myself that way. However, every now and then someone else will accuse me of being one... Mar 01 06 08:22 pm Link ... when I started looking at my pictures in a more critical way. Up until that point, I was just taking pictures of any activity I was involved in. I just put the camera on Program/Automatic, and started shooting. To add to the first comment, it was when I started playing around with the aperture and shutter speed settings, shooting in manual mode vs. program/automatic mode. Mar 01 06 08:22 pm Link It was the paycheck. It called me one first. Who was I to argue? Mar 01 06 08:27 pm Link Ive been shooting since 7th grade but first called myself a photographer years later in the Air Force Mar 01 06 08:30 pm Link |
