Mike Johnston etched:
"Okay, hot shots. You want to try your hands at my "How to Tell If
You're a Real Photographer" quiz? This was going to be an article in
_PT_. (I have it around here somewhere and I'll bet I could find it.)
I consists of 50 questions about photography that "any real
photographer should know." Of course you'd be on your honor to take it
cold and score it honestly, but I wouldn't worry about honesty on the
Pentax list...heck, it's not like this is a bunch of ratty Nikon
shooters or something. <g>
Anybody game to put their knowledge to the acid test?
- --Mike"
Sounds like fun! Actually, it would be kind of interesting to see just how
much I do remember from way back when, and how much I just think I
remember.
Back on the subject of who is and who isn't a photographer: back 30 years
ago as a young Marine Corps photog, I had to deal with the senior enlisted
photogs who were photogs because they had been in the job for a certain
number of years. Most of them had never taken a decent picture while I was
working in that lab. They expected us younger guys to do all the work,
which was fine with me I loved the work (even when it got a little
dangerous). One had taken an award winner several years prior to our
meeting, but I never saw him pick up a camera in the 2 years I worked for
him other than to take one home. Another was so dense that he destroyed
some slides of a field with morning dew, high grass, spider webs, and the
sun rise. I was trying to teach a lieutenant about photography, depth of
field, exposure, composition, etc., and she wanted to see her slides when
we returned to the base a month later. All of the film was sent back to
headquarters for processing and use in analysis of new methods and tools
for combat. The Staff Sergeant had thrown them in the trash after seeing
them on the light table because they weren't related to our assigned work.
One of the other young photogs said that the lieutenants photos were pretty
good. My point is, and this echos something someone else said earlier, the
two staff sergeants could probably have passed any test, they were highly
trained, but if they ever had it they no longer had the soul of a
photographer.
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