How can you identify a bad photographer?

12 years 8 months ago #114240 by Robert Chen
Let's make a list!

This idea comes from a discussion I had with a rep at my local camera store. While I was there over the weekend a person came into the store and had a shiny D3s (might have been D3x) and all sorts of gear that clearly was brand new and hardly used. The guy was talking loud and bragging about his gear and these great shots he had taken, that he apparently had sent into magazines telling them what gear he had used to take them with and then said: "When magazines hear you took photos with professional gear, they look at you more seriously". (How funny is that statement!!)

What is funny is that after the guy left, the clerk was telling me the guy just bought all that gear the month prior and that was his first camera. "The guy is focusing more on expensive gear than the quality of the photo". Well they are out there!

So post up what you think makes a bad photographer.

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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #114241 by Scotty
Just look at my galleries lol.

When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.

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12 years 8 months ago #114242 by Henry Peach

Scotty wrote: Just look at my galleries lol.


I'm with you. :cheers: Also they spend way too much time on photography forums.
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12 years 8 months ago #114247 by Kid Prodigy
Taking photos with a telezoom lens and subject is 50 feet away with a pop up flash :rofl:

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12 years 8 months ago #114249 by Rob pix4u2
ALL GEAR AND NO PIX TO SHOW FOR IT. Seriously you have to look at the pix to know

Remember to engage brain before putting mouth in gear
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12 years 8 months ago #114251 by Scotty

Rob pix4u2 wrote: ALL GEAR AND NO PIX TO SHOW FOR IT. Seriously you have to look at the pix to know


Lol like i said, look at my gallery!

When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.

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12 years 8 months ago #114252 by Shadowfixer1
One of the funniest things I've seen was a guy using a Sto-Fen diffuser on an SB-600 flash while shooting birds 100 to 150 feet away. He said he liked the soft light it gave on the birds instead of a harsh shadow. That dude must have had a "Tim the Toolman Taylor" souped up version of an SB-600. Most everybody else had their Better Beamers on.
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12 years 8 months ago #114253 by chasrich
The Post Office can help... for example ->


“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light, I just make pictures… ” ~ Vernon Trent
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12 years 8 months ago #114256 by Silver Fox
Know it all photographers drive me up the wall!


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12 years 8 months ago #114261 by Dori
I have a customer who knows I shoot. He brought in a couple of his photos :blink: and was bragging mindlessly about how good :pinch: they were. I asked what settings were used. He told me that he used a really large F-stop. I asked, the told me F22 :huh:

Don't pi$$ me off, I am running out of room to store the bodies...

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12 years 8 months ago #114292 by Baydream
All of their shots are so over-processed they must not have been very good at taking the shot.

Shoot, learn and share. It will make you a better photographer.
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12 years 8 months ago - 12 years 8 months ago #114302 by The Time Capturer
A "bad photographer" is the one that doesn't know he/she is a bad photographer. I don't consider myself a bad photographer but I don't consider myself to be good either. I have the capability of capturing some great images but I'm not consistent. I have days when I feel everything is crap.

To me, being a good or bad photographer can't be self-stated ... it is in the eyes of the viewer. To some people you may be a great photographer. To others, viewing the exact same images, they may think you're not up to the job.

Without seeing any examples, what I would think would make a bad photographer is one that doesn't learn from past mistakes and makes the same errors again and again becaue they are so hung up on themselves, they don't pay attention to critique.

Sure, practice makes perfect but, unless you learn from your mistakes, you are only perfecting your ability to fail.
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12 years 8 months ago #114318 by MLKstudios
TTC, that's the sign of a bad student. Can include ANY subject. A smart person knows how little they know and a dumb one thinks they know everything already.

My own view can be applied to any subject as well. It is those who aim for mediocrity -- and achieve it.

Matthew

Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"

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12 years 8 months ago #114319 by DestinDave
A lot of days I feel I can just look in a mirror and identify a bad photographer..

Dave Speicher
I thought I wanted a career.. turns out I only wanted paychecks.
dlspeicher.zenfolio.com

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12 years 8 months ago #114348 by photobod

DestinDave wrote: A lot of days I feel I can just look in a mirror and identify a bad photographer..


I feel the same way Dave and the mirror cracks when I look in it. :rofl:

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