Professional photographer standard = technical light to create creative works

Give you a reference:

Ken Rockwell's "Seven Categories of Photographers"-A Spiritual Guide (Irony)

1. artist: the highest level (equivalent to "heaven" in Christian mythology)

This is the highest state.

The artist fixed his imagination on a concrete form called a photograph. In this photo, he captures the soul of things, whether real or imaginary, the audience will respond to it.

An artist is a master of using tools. In artistic creation, when his soul flies to what he captures, the artist transcends the existence in the usual sense. When he is not innovative, he may learn to use his tools. But when he innovates, the camera becomes an extension of his thinking, and he unconsciously thinks about the technology he can call an expert.

For example, a musician may practice his scales, but when he plays, he doesn't even think of his fingers-he is lost in the passion of that moment.

Just like a professional surfer has a dozen surfboards, or a guitarist has twenty-three axes, an artist may have many cameras, each with a different purpose.

Similarly, other artists may have only one camera or no camera at all. It doesn't matter.

Artists sometimes dress funny and often stay up late.

No one has seen their works because they are very clumsy in promoting their titles. People who are good at it belittle themselves as soul sellers. Unfortunately, this means that you can't see their works unless you know a real artist. Good artists usually feel embarrassed to show their works to others, unless you are close to them, because their works are their souls.

Artists use various cameras, including pinhole cameras, disposable cameras or 8x 10 cameras. They use any necessary equipment to create what they want.

2. Soul Sellers: Level 6

A soul seller is an artist who exchanges his soul for money or drugs.

If an artist lowers himself to this level, his vision may have been compromised.

Why? Because he sold his soul to buy the food he needed, in order not to violate the system, he lowered his voice, which meant that he could not try new styles.

If a person who sells his soul pays the bills with his job for many years, he can't try a new style as long as he needs bread.

Artists with agents (galleries or other agents; If you change his style, he may lose his agent.

Therefore, the works of art sold by a person will never progress or change.

A marketable style is what pimps want to see. Look at Barnbaum's book on art. It is extremely difficult for a successful soul seller to change the accepted style.

Three. Amateur: Level 5

This person's photography income is less than half of the total income. This has nothing to do with the quality of their photography.

This man likes taking pictures. An excellent amateur with a pure soul may surpass other ranks and become an artist.

A person who takes a wedding dress on weekends to supplement his daily income is still an amateur; They just charge for their photos.

If an amateur thinks that a good camera will improve his work, he will risk being downgraded to the lowest equipment surveyor. Too many amateurs are misled by camera manufacturers that they need a good camera to take good photos. This idea poisoned artistic creation.

If an amateur releases himself in his efforts to create immortal pictures, he will embark on a road of understanding.

Being an amateur is a good thing: it is easier to become an artist from this level.

Almost all amateurs use Canon SLR.

Four. Snapshot: Level 4

My mother and most people belong to this level. They pay more attention to memory than photos or cameras.

Those graphic artists or observant snapshots often take unusual photos. These photos left a deep impression on anyone. These snapshots are artists, but they don't know this. They usually dress better than artists who think they are artists.

Believe this: it was the photographer, not the camera, who took the photos.

Snappers use a fool camera or a disposable camera to shoot other people's effects with Lycra, Nikon, Canon and Contek.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Professional photographer: level 3.

A professional photographer is a person who earns all his living expenses by photography.

Professional photographers do not create art for survival, but make pictures for business. They are usually familiar with tools and can take good photos, but it is not always possible for them to capture their imagination.

Of course, professional photographers can take great photos in their own time.

Professional photographers seldom worry about cameras unless they need to be repaired. They spend almost all their time looking for jobs, or complain that other photographers in the city are cutting prices again.

Professional photographers spend more money on film and development every month than they spend on equipment every year.

There are no professional nature photographers. They either have jobs during the day or are supported by their wives.

Professional photographers use Nikon SLR, Mamma Mihm, Calumet 4x5 ... They can't afford the equipment used by most serious amateurs.

Amateurs have no websites.

6. Rich amateurs: Level 2

These amateurs are too rich. They buy a lot of equipment, which limits their freedom of expression. These people are usually men, and many of them are old or retired.

These wealthy amateurs use Leica, Contek, Alpas, Hasselblad and Rienhoff 4x5. These are all good cameras, comparable, but the results are the same as those taken by Dzenit, Pentax, Bronica and Tachihara.

Slightly worse, use Niokn or even Canon.

Recently, these idiots began to use SLR designed for newspapers, such as Canon EOS- 1D and Nikon D1X. But the quality of these cameras is worse than those used to take snapshots. The stupidest people are waiting for the $7,000 Contax N digital camera. This kind of camera is worse than Nikon and Canon's digital SLR. But the photos taken by these people can only be compared with those taken with cheap film.

Bad rich amateurs regard blurred black and white photos of poor people as art.

Some wealthy amateurs easily fall to the lowest psychological level because they are too worried about their own equipment, while others go straight into the hall of creating great art because they believe that their own equipment is the best, so they are not worried. Strangely, few rich amateurs take ordinary photos: they either succeed or fail.

Seven. Equipment measurement obscenity: the lowest level

These men (they are all men) are not interested in art and photography because they have no soul. The lack of soul prevents them from expressing their imagination and feelings. So their photos, if they do anything, are all failures.

Most people have original technical hobbies, such as engineering, computer and science. These people care so much about scoring with numbers that they completely forget that cameras and test benches have nothing to do with the soul of the final picture. Because they care too much about the performance of measuring equipment, we nicknamed them "measuring psychosexuality". Unfortunately, many of them went to KenRockwell.com to look for information about equipment performance.

Many of them also play stereos, computers or cars. Just as they treat their own cameras, they regard cameras as toys and seldom use them in the way they should.

Younger people play games, surf the Internet or chat. Older people join the camera/equipment club. You should join a "photography" club, not a camera club, or any club that tries to grade art-because art is completely subjective and cannot be graded by numbers. Similarly, these people never use their equipment to create anything that attracts attention. But they will definitely own, buy or compete with you.

One tool that these people ignore is the only useful tool: lighting.

For their own sake, they are only interested in equipment. If you let them go, they will tell you to death. But once you want to see their works, their momentum will suddenly disappear, or they will think you want to see their equipment.

A person with a good portfolio is not an equipment addict. A person who has more equipment than a good work. Those who have a website full of technical articles and few interesting photos are probably.

Under no circumstances should you associate with these people, chat with them or visit their websites. To simple people, they are like a knowledge base, but their morbid and lifeless souls especially like to drag you into their own hell, trapping your soul in the quagmire of worrying about lens clarity all your life. Once you start to worry about this, you will never shoot anything other than brick walls and meters.

These people are easy to distinguish. If you have read this article, you may have seen their website. They often have a lot of information about the equipment, but few real photos. If a website doesn't have photos you appreciate, you should be careful about the information it provides.

I have to delete some pictures of devices from my website. These people look at my art, but spend more time looking at pictures of my equipment! The bandwidth I bought was used by these idiots to look at my photos, not those in my art gallery-and that's what this website is all about. So stupid pages like this are all yellow, which can't be tolerated by eyes, and you can't waste too much time on these boring things.