You are a person. Who has a camera. Or a camera phone. Or an iPad. Whatever. It is a device that takes photographs. This makes you a photographer.
False.
That is like me saying that because I have a variety of instruments in my house, I am a musician.
Heck no. My musical talent is equivalent to that of pillow.
It is absolutely ridiculous how many people think they are "artistic" because they held the camera at an upward angle and took a photo of a tree. It is even more ridiculous how editing the photo on their computer makes their photos "artistic".
No.
Most wannabe-photographers have this among their favorite quotes: When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!
That rule does not apply when you use photo shop. The whole point of photography is to capture something that changes the way we see it, not manipulating the photo to make it look like you did.
And then they put them on Facebook, making a fan page for their work, and thinking someone will hire them for their bat mitzvah.
Oh, please! You are twelve years old! Stick to long division!
So, here is a note to all of those people who think they are the chiz for their unsurpassed camera phone photos - leave it to the real artists.
False.
That is like me saying that because I have a variety of instruments in my house, I am a musician.
Heck no. My musical talent is equivalent to that of pillow.
It is absolutely ridiculous how many people think they are "artistic" because they held the camera at an upward angle and took a photo of a tree. It is even more ridiculous how editing the photo on their computer makes their photos "artistic".
No.
Most wannabe-photographers have this among their favorite quotes: When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!
That rule does not apply when you use photo shop. The whole point of photography is to capture something that changes the way we see it, not manipulating the photo to make it look like you did.
And then they put them on Facebook, making a fan page for their work, and thinking someone will hire them for their bat mitzvah.
Oh, please! You are twelve years old! Stick to long division!
So, here is a note to all of those people who think they are the chiz for their unsurpassed camera phone photos - leave it to the real artists.
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