The picture is a teaser for the website. The picture itself is probably stock, and doesn't necessarily indicate what the site is about.
Go to http://youarenotaphotographer.com/ to see the actual pictures and mocking. On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Doug, Mark. From the one photo I saw, I don't see the evidence that > the person doesn't know how to use the camera. But even if there was > something so glaringly wrong that even I could see it, my point is that we > should pay less attention to the tools and more to the artifacts produced. It > is just another side to the old story about how "you must have a really good > camera to take such good pictures" or "you must have a really good frying pan > to make such fluffy omelets." Toys, tools, fun stuff . . . call it what you > like. Most (all?) of us really like our gadgets and enjoy their use. But at > the end of the day, I think we all would rather be known for the photo or > bookcase or rocking chair we made than for the brand of camera or router or > bandsaw we used. The photo caption in question is just the flip side of the > same story. Why should it be appropriate to mock someone's talent, or lack > thereof, just because of the tool they use? Granted, I've been there and done > that. I remember the (envious) comments I shared with classmates about the > campus co-eds with wealthy fathers who gave them XK-E's or Vette's or > similar, and which they were assumed to be barely able to drive. It just > really is a bit silly to pay so much attention to the match or mismatch > between a person's assumed talent and the assumed quality of the tool they > use. > > stan > >> On 2/4/12 1:00 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 4, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Bipin Gupta wrote: >>> >>>> A lady holds a Canon DSLR with the caption " You are not a photographer. >>>> You just have an over priced camera". >>>> This is the silliest thought / caption I have seen. The reality: while on >>>> a trip >>>> to Europe / UK /Spain last year August, I saw many tourists from Japan& >>>> China - guided group tour - holding Pentax KX and KR DSLRs. Surprisingly >>>> a lot of them were young girls, some even in their teens. >>>> Hey, if I have the moolah and a hunger for photography, even as a learner, >>>> why should I not buy a DSLR? >>>> Bipin. Bangalore, India. >>> >>> I wonder where this reverse snobbery comes from? Making fun of someone >>> because they want to use a decent tool for the job? >>> Reminds me of my brother. In his late teens he took a year off from school, >>> was working as a surveyor in the Bolivian wilds. His camera was an Argus >>> C-3 rangefinder (probably because that is what my grandmother used.) So the >>> truck they were in got stuck and then overturned while trying to ford a >>> flooded river. His camera bag was drowned, when eventually recovered the >>> camera was too full of river grit to be cleanable. So his next time in La >>> Paz he went looking for another rangefinder, wound up buying a Leica M-2 >>> because that is all that was available. So there you have this young kid >>> with a professional's camera. Back then, I don't think he received much >>> ridicule. Later on (ME-Super era) he moved to Pentax gear and since then >>> nobody can accuse him of professional pretensions! >>> >>> stan >> > >> On Feb 4, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Doug Brewer wrote: > >> I think the point here, Stan, is not that she has a camera that costs >> whatever,but the view that, to too many people, all you need to be a >> photographer is a good camera. >> > > On Feb 4, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Bipin Gupta wrote: >> >>> A lady holds a Canon DSLR with the caption " You are not a photographer. >>> You just have an over priced camera". >>> This is the silliest thought / caption I have seen. >> >> Bipin, the woman in the photo isn't being made fun of because of the >> camera she's using, she's being made fun of because she doesn't know >> how to use the camera properly. >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
