>On what basis do you assert that to be a professional? >photographer you have to use a camera with movements?
>I would be interested in your full definition of what > makes a professional photographer. > >Peter > >P.S. What's Scheimplug? >Is this irony? >Mike Darrin's response is helpful: A comment we would like to hear is: "You do it so well it would be a waste of time trying to do it ourselves" >From my own (biased) viewpoint, I would say that an advanced amateur is someone who has heard of Scheimplug! As an Agricultural Engineering student, I calibrated Diesel fuel injection pumps, did some surveying and studied cultivation. and then worked as an Agricultural Electronic Engineer, on computerised controlled-environment grain stores. Most educational establishments insist that their graduates gain a thorough grounding in the basics of the subject. This: 1 Enables them to make educated decisions about in what they might specialise 2 Even if it does not prepare them for all specialities, it at least lets them know what they can tackle "professionally", and what it would be best left to a professional specialising in another area. If you get into a career working with, or appointing, professionals practicing in the subject you studied, you need to know the vocabulary, and understand what is involved. 3 Prevents amateurs embarrassing them at cocktail parties. Photography progresses, and I presume "they" no longer consider it essential that students should be able to sensitise glass plates - The decease in format size has decreased the need for movements (and knowledge of Scheimplug), but, I think that, in a decade or so, Scheimplug may be more relevant than wet printing. Anybody can buy a "point-and-shoot" and take photographs - and, perhaps, get paid for it. You can define a "professional" as any body doing anything for which they get paid. (If you see a "lady" on the pavement in a short skirt and too much make-up, you might wonder if she is a professional!) My father was a farmer, and he said that the best crop you can have is a good crop of customers, and this applies to all professions - but more so to photography, where sales seem to depend more on PR and Sales expertise than the quality of the product. Most professional institutes in other professions do not register anyone who has not gained a degree/diploma in the subject, and I think that this was the case in photography a quarter of a century ago. Many artistic photographers have never been to photo-college, but many who have not are corporate members of professional photographic Institutions. When I think of professional photographers, I am not thinking of shop keepers who do occasional passport photographs or weddings, I think of people who do, or could be relied upon to make a good job of, architectural exteriors, or complicated commercial or museum studio work: mixed lighting interiors, aerial dance and gymnastics, jewellery, glass, ballistics, and precious metals may be optional specialities! Scheimplug and movements are applicable to most areas of photography, and I hope to use movements to take some interestingly different glamour pictures, using landscape techniques. I like to set myself little tasks, like setting up beam triggers to photograph a humming bird in flight, with the wings in the oblique plane of sharpest focus of a Digitar/Sinar/Eyelike system. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
