Saturday, November 6, 2010

I'm not a photographer.

I've been pretty tired of photography lately as you know and I had my reasons for it. One of them being the excessive amount of "photographers". For some reason people think if they get an expensive DSLR that will make them a pro photographer. If the photos are still bad they will spend more money on buying lenses, filters, lights and god only knows what. Eventually they will take classes get a piece of paper saying that they took photography and some professor of photography (already sounds funny) taught them everything. Oh but it gets better. The photo is still bad? That's fine.. let's just turn it into black and white that will make it artistic and fix everything. No? Not enough? Eh no problem there are all kinds of effects - soft focus, focal b&w, tilt, tint, sharpen,... add a couple words by a famous writer or something in a pretty font, and so on. Well a 6-year can do that too. Oh another thing - if a photo is super crappy it can be classified as abstract and "you just don't understand it. this is how i felt. bla bla".

(My camera is peeking at me from behind the monitor with a sad eye.)

Anyway the point is... look at your photos. be truthful at least with yourself. are you a photographer? are you? maybe it's just a hobby for you?

I've seen photos of real photographers and well they were breathtaking amazing and memorable. And I've seen really crappy ones. It's just not fair that they are called the same. And flickr unfortunately is full of mostly the bad kind. (mostly)

So I'm thinking about starting a group called "i'm not a photographer" for those who *love* taking photos don't care about what others say or whether or not the photography is gonna make them money. for those who try their best to capture a moment in time but who are also truthful and not full of themselves. Sounds like a lot of work... I'll think about it for a couple days before i rush into it.

And now maybe I'll go take some shots.. it's first snow you know.