What does it take to be a photographer?

Perhaps from the birth of 1839 photography, photography is destined to be a kind of "physical activity". The early camera was still a huge wooden box, which was inconvenient to move. If you want to go out to take pictures, you need several assistants to move cameras, films and other materials, and even a carriage to walk instead of walking.

Old cameras and photographers

With the progress of science and technology, camera equipment is getting lighter and lighter, but photography is still a "physical activity". A photographer needs more than one camera to take a picture. They also need to bring: cameras, lenses with different focal lengths, memory cards, flashlights, batteries, computers, chargers, tripods, props ... Photographers think that "equipment is not needed, equipment is not enough". It is precisely because there are too many items needed for travel shooting that many studios require male assistants, and many work units recruit photographers mainly from men.

Photographers need to bring a lot of equipment when shooting.

In addition to equipment, photographers must be able to resist cold, high temperature, mountains and rivers. After all, without good physical strength, the subject matter and content of shooting will be limited. Zack Zhang, a domestic fashion photographer, sent a message in 20181in Weibo, saying that he would finish shooting in the environment of minus 20 to 40 degrees within one month.

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Fashion photographers work so hard, not to mention war photographers, wildlife photographers and landscape photographers. Their environment is worse and they need higher physical quality.

Being a photographer requires great patience. In order to shoot a landscape that has never been photographed before, a landscape photographer will wait for the right weather, find a new seat, gather "the right time, the right place, the right person" and press the shutter. For example, Yao Lu, her image and landscape photographer, will climb the mountain or look at the topographic map by herself, set up camp to find some unique seats, and stay at the mouth of the ditch for two weeks to observe the weather in order to shoot the snow scene in Jiuzhaigou.

Photographer Yao Lu and her landscape works

In order to capture the perfect photos of wild lions drinking water, Greg du Toit, a wildlife photographer, spent three months lurking in the pond frequented by lions for a total of 270 hours. In the end, his dedication and hard work also brought him a set of quite wonderful photos.

Wildlife photographer Greg Dutoit and his works

What will you do when a brown bear rushes into your tent? Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino recorded the angry brown bear by pressing the shutter.

Michio Hoshino and the Internet are circulating the bear he photographed at the last minute.

Similar dangers are not limited to wildlife photographers. Almost every year, news reports show that war photographers are dying, but even so, there are still tens of millions of photographers engaged in this dangerous work.

Pictures of photographers being attacked.

A war photographer who died on the battlefield

Of course, these are just some qualities of being a photographer, not all. Although the threshold is there, it is not an obstacle for us to love photography ~