[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Peter, > > interesting thoughts. > > However, both your "Picture taker" and "Image Maker" seem > to be more involved in technical aspects of photography. > > There are also those who don't care about equipment or > technique, but who think, "this will look much better at > dusk / dawn", or "I wish this scene had a red canoe". > > And neither one has to do with being or not being a pro. A > pro gets the job done (even with a $20 disposable camera if > neccessary), and makes a living off of selling his > photographs. As long as it sells, the photograph doesn't > have to be "good" (whatever that means). > > On the other hand, in certain areas, e.g. as in Nature > Photography, image quality is paramount. Then the question > "is this a sharp lens" has to be asked. -----------------------------------------------------------
Lars, We agree. My point was that the amateur or picture taker is always looking at how to improve the picture by improving his/her equipment (L lenses, bokeh, etc.) while the pro or image maker is lokking at waht has to be done technically with the equiptment to get the best image. Case in point, some pros can use a disposable camera and make a great image while many novices can have an EOS-1V, all L glass and take nothing more than a snapshot. As to your nature comment, I agree but only partially. Ansel Adams never used the best of the best but shot much at F64 (some contemporaries called it the school of F64 photography) making his good equipment produce great results. I happen to have a book of Ansel Adams early potographs and many were not tack sharp but were great images that still sell. On the other hand I have seen some nature images that were tack sharp but crummy images. For me I will take the former. So its really NOT paramount that an image be tack sharp to sell. Peter K * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
