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Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 06:09:51 No.3085214 View View Reply Original Report

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Do you consider yourself to be a photographer?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 06:21:37 No.3085220 Report

Quoted By: >>3085222

I barely make any actual money off of it, so I just call myself a photo hobbyist. A man who woodworks for a hobby and occasionally sells a carved bear wouldn't call himself a carpenter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 06:24:08 No.3085222 Report

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>>3085220
What if you get published (e.g. in some hipster IG-based magazine), or have a showing in a gallery, but don't make any money off of it? Would this person be considered a photographer, or a hobbyist?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 06:27:44 No.3085224 Report

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i dont like the "photographer" tag, sounds like a limited cuck aka. those that do sets for models and weddings. i like better the "artist" tag.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 06:47:40 No.3085231 Report

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More of a hobbyist. The only reason I started was because it would work as an ice breaker.
That said a lot of people at the animu cons I got to like my work.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 07:07:42 No.3085243 Report

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>>3085222
If I managed to get a gallery showing, I guess at that point I'd feel okay with calling myself a photographer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 08:09:05 No.3085270 Report

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>>3085214
Eh. honestly I cant stand people who take a garbage picture of a sunset with their phone then go around calling themselves photographers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 08:16:14 No.3085276 Report

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I care about photos but I care more about my equipment. For me it's just a hobby. The furthest I would go was to call myself an "amateur photographer."

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 08:31:11 No.3085279 Report

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yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 08:34:08 No.3085280 Report

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It doesn't fucking matter

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 10:42:00 No.3085308 Report

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No. I primarily sketch and paint. I take photos to support my primary interest or for when I don't have time to sketch.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 12:14:47 No.3085332 Report

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>>3085214

I'd never call myself a photographer, I just like to take pictures.

I like gear that lets me take pictures in fun ways. Specifically as close to what my eyes see as possible.

Taking a shitty picture and spending hours in photoshop making it not shit, or applying shitty filters to cover errors is boring as fuck to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 12:47:28 No.3085345 Report

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>>3085214
I don't consider myself anything. I just take photos, it doesn't define who I am

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 12:58:10 No.3085351 Report

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I push the button on the camera so by that definition I'm a photographer. If someone was to ask me "so what do you do?" or "what's your job" I certainly wouldn't reply with "I'm a photographer" though and I wouldn't define myself through photography, as someone might say "I'm a skateboarder".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 13:00:20 No.3085352 Report

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What sets a photographer and a "photographer" apart is the confidence to say "Yes I'm a Photographer." and then own that with images which reflect said confidence. If you are still stuck on that step, then you aren't a professional photographer, and just a hobbyist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 May 2017 13:57:49 No.3085380 Report

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I just don't bother making money off of it. Besides the most I'd be willing to do would be portraits and i still need more experience in that department (though it's literally nothing but "muh bokeh". I'm just trying to find out how much is appropriate, I use a 50mm 1.4 and just bought a 50mm 1.2 (for $10 hehehe), so I'm gonna try and discover if shooting wide open with these for portraits is formidable or not.

NatureGuy !!tg3hbUo06u8

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NatureGuy !!tg3hbUo06u8 Mon 29 May 2017 14:04:50 No.3085382 Report

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>>3085214
yeah

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 03:21:36 No.3085863 Report

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>>3085332

People like you are what is killing photography.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 03:24:30 No.3085865 Report

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>>3085332

If you're not using Lightroom, Photoshop or whatever to post process your RAW files then your photos are already shitty.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 03:26:33 No.3085867 Report

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>>3085214
Given my outlook on life, no.
IMO We are not artists, writers, runners, etc. But people who write, make art, and run.

Emphasizing that we're people beyond labels. Prepubescent Pseudointellectual Contrarian nonsense I know.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 03:52:13 No.3085893 Report

Quoted By: >>3085900

>>3085865
>>3085863

I do process them, but I try not to oveprocess them.

You see way to much shit on instagram with excessive amounts of HDR and vignetting. And tons of SATURATION TO THE MAXXXXXXXXX! photos too.

It is digusting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 03:59:14 No.3085899 Report

Quoted By: >>3085903

Seems like a silly question.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:00:02 No.3085900 Report

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>>3085893

Depends on what you are trying to achieve. Instagram is not a place to look for photos. They are compressed to the point that even a blurred photo will look good.

The more time you spend playing with editing the easier it gets and the better the photos look.

Sometimes it can pay to push photos to a point you think you should not.

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Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:01:35 No.3085901 Report

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10 minutes in Lightroom.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:04:28 No.3085903 Report

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>>3085899
And yet here you are, replying to a silly question.

Good job, anon.

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Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:04:51 No.3085904 Report

Quoted By: >>3085905 >>3085913 >>3086168 >>3088181

From this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:08:05 No.3085905 Report

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>>3085904
>No Jason Lanier logo

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:08:43 No.3085906 Report

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>>3085905
What ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:09:10 No.3085907 Report

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>>3085901

>ISO 250
>that absurdly heavy grain

lol wut

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:11:42 No.3085909 Report

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>>3085907

That is how i edited it. Not everything has to be noise free.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:19:21 No.3085913 Report

Quoted By: >>3085919 >>3085922 >>3085925 >>3088089

>>3085901
>>3085904
>post edit
>unedited pic looks better
kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:21:00 No.3085917 Report

Quoted By: >>3085923

>>3085214
no, I take pictures for a hobby. was your mom a photographer for taking pictures at every school event you attended?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:22:33 No.3085919 Report

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>>3085913

Then you're a fucking idiot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:23:57 No.3085922 Report

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>>3085913

maybe you should go back to your filters on your shitty iphone

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:25:01 No.3085923 Report

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>>3085917
She still probably took better photos than your snapshits cutie ;)

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 04:26:34 No.3085925 Report

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>>3085913
why dont you post your own stuff and prove you can do better

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 12:50:58 No.3086142 Report

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>>3085214
i would not consider myself to be a photographer if i use digital cameras and shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 13:33:55 No.3086165 Report

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>>3085907
Probably sharpening artifacts, not signal noise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 13:37:02 No.3086168 Report

Quoted By: >>3086292 >>3086295 >>3086297

Nope. Few of my architectural photos are featured in a art gallery, got some money from some freelance photojournalism and night club. But there's a long way to go to I consider myself a photographer.

>>3085901
>>3085904

you should've got this tone direct in camera. You just wasted 10minutes in Lightroom, while you could have spent 30s more taking the picture. congrats

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 16:44:48 No.3086292 Report

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>>3086168

Fuck off Ken Rockwell

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 16:46:29 No.3086295 Report

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>>3086168

you would never get oi to look like that in camera in a million years you fucking idiot

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 16:47:56 No.3086297 Report

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>>3086168

I shot it in RAW, it had to go into Lightroom anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 17:24:37 No.3086330 Report

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I make roughly $10k+ a year with photography, have been printed in a couple magazines, and consistently have people requesting me to take photos for them in exchange for money.

So, I guess that makes me a photographer. It's just a side "hobby" for me, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 18:34:14 No.3086352 Report

Quoted By: >>3086355 >>3086361

>>3085332
This is terrible. Where's the focus? No bokeh blur, no background blur. Just a weird pose with decent lighting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 18:45:57 No.3086355 Report

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>>3086352
I'm not sure that is that anon's photo. It looks like some random gravure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 18:55:53 No.3086361 Report

Quoted By: >>3086448

>>3086352

How the hell would anybody even be able to blur the background with a photo like that lol

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!QSnkIfyEps Tue 30 May 2017 21:26:40 No.3086448 Report

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>>3086361
f/1.8 or lower?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 21:34:32 No.3086454 Report

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Nah. I just like documenting my life and what I see.

Haven't made much money off of it and don't even know if I'd pursue it as a career.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 30 May 2017 23:32:41 No.3086499 Report

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>>3086448

Even then it will hardly be visible. There is no DOF to be had in that scene unless you are a bout a foot from the ground and taken at a different angle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 02 Jun 2017 23:51:51 No.3088052 Report

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>>3085214
No. I write invoices for about 30000€ from (underwater)photography yearly. At this point I'm so fed up with this sitting in front of the computer bullshit that I'm prepared to do something completely different.
I still don't like to be call myself a photographer. I am rather an entrepreneur. When people ask what I do for my living I tell them I "photograph baby swimmers", not that I'm a photographer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 00:08:50 No.3088056 Report

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I tell girls i am

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Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 01:28:13 No.3088083 Report

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>got paid 52k salary to do photography/retouching for a cosmetics company for a year
>directors make a moodboard which is basically assets from other companies
>stylist sets up the products

>press a button
>spend a hour cleaning and color adjusting

Even after this stint, I still don't consider myself to be a photographer. Real work feels like IRL copy and pasting, and whatever I do on my free time is documenting. There's no drive to instill a meaning behind my shots, other than "Hey I was there"

Unless you have the means to constantly shoot in variety, I always felt labeling yourself a photographer among the other dime a dozen SM promoters is to calling yourself a chef when you just cook at home

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 01:35:23 No.3088089 Report

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>>3085913
he's right tho
>>3085901
absolutely destroyed the values, now everything is competing for each other

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Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 01:52:50 No.3088096 Report

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Ugh, no not really. But most of the people I knew from college think I am because I always wanted to be a director but only had the money for a few, very pathetic shorts and didn't talk about it much. Photography has had a very positive influence on my life and craft though and I technically worked a photography job before (pic related).

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 06:59:17 No.3088181 Report

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>>3085904
>>3085901
>ten minutes to ruin a photo
mmm yes very impressive anon

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