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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
02-26-2014, 03:45 PM
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It's not fair to put photographers into the same category of 'camera users'.
I think it's aimed at people that are more concerned about documenting their memories than enjoying things. Like people that take 'selfies' and pics of their food, friends, etc. That's using (eh, abusing) a camera.
People should put down their camera and enjoy what their doing. Phones with cameras built in are pretty much a waste. Don't disengage in what you're doing just to upload it to Facebook.
It's not fair to lump photographers in this category:
Photographers usually walk with their head up, looking for the artistic beauty in everyday life.
Photographers see relationships in colors, shapes, textures, people, and can create something of beauty from what others see as mundane.
Photographers are the people willing to haul 20 lbs of camera gear on a backpacking trip, to use it twice a day in morning and evening twilight.
Photographers are the people who go off the beaten path to document the beaten path (and the unbeaten path!)
Photographers look at things from multiple perspectives, and frequently don't take accept things at normal perspectives.
FILM photographers have less 'screen time', and use their brains in the darkroom with developing, printing, etc.
Now, given those, how many people think real photographers should give up their cameras to live a healthier life?
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