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03/22/2005 04:08:32 PM · #26 |
We live in a demand driven capitalist society. Money may ruin photographers but not photography. The financial success is determined more by marketing than talent. In the end the answer to when you may consider yourself professional is when you get paid. I agree with Mr. Warhol.
Message edited by author 2005-03-23 08:38:33.
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03/22/2005 04:08:33 PM · #27 |
check out this link i started a while ago something similar at least it anwsered my question lol //www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=175322&highlight=leonjr
Message edited by author 2005-03-22 16:09:04.
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03/22/2005 05:28:55 PM · #28 |
OK, I've been to the opticians.
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Here's a link to the AOP where you can see how creative some professionals can be. It's impossible to generalise. |
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03/22/2005 07:21:38 PM · #29 |
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time. -Alfred Stieglitz
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03/22/2005 07:36:41 PM · #30 |
i thought spending all your money on photography equipment made you a professional. Are you telling me I've been lying to myself.
LOL
Travis
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03/22/2005 07:43:00 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by Travis99:
i thought spending all your money on photography equipment made you a professional. Are you telling me I've been lying to myself.
LOL
Travis |
lol
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03/22/2005 07:45:51 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by bledford:
When your work is so highly sought after you'd never think to post any images to contest website for fear of infringement, unless under an assumed name just for personal entertainment. |
Bet that gets your profile a lot of hits.
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03/22/2005 07:46:52 PM · #33 |
"Photography is yet in its infancy, and it offers to the intelligent amateur a field for readily gaining distinction as the author of valuable experiments. Let him consider whether he will occupy his spare time and cash in producing photographs of more or less merit and which may be doomed to fade before his eyes, or whether he will employ the same opportunities to advance the art. Professional photographers have rarely the time to bestow on experiments, and they are generally too ready to "pooh, pooh" all innovations. On the other hand, a large class of amateurs are equally ready to "try" all new processes, good or bad."
-Thomas Sutton, in 1857
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03/22/2005 09:03:06 PM · #34 |
"..it is not to be wondered that the impulses forward should emanate rather from the amateur than the professional. The former pursues the art for pleasure, the latter for profit. The one can try all manner of experiments, and whether he succeed or fail he secures his object - agreeable occupation. The professional, however, has all his energies directed to make things pay. He has too much at stake to speculate. He chooses the safest way. He is the true conservative, and when he gets hold of anything that works passable well, changes with reluctance. If an amateur experiments with a new toning bath on a batch of perhaps half-a-dozen prints, and fails, well the loss is not great, and he gains in knowledge and experience. But the professional has his batch of perhaps six hundred, and if he fail, the loss is something considerable.... The advance of photography is something like the progress of an army. The main body keeps in safe marching order, while the more daring and adventurous are the pioneers who lead the army - rushing here, feeling their way there; always skirmishing, often retiring, but eventually succeeding in finding new tracks and safe paths for the main body to securely pass along."
-Jabez Hughes, in 1863
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03/22/2005 09:34:03 PM · #35 |
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03/22/2005 09:46:25 PM · #36 |
An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends and took along a few pictures to show the hostess. She looked at the photos and commented "These are very good! You must have a good camera."
He didn't make any comment, but, as he was leaving to go home he said "That was a really delicious meal! You must have some very good pots."
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03/22/2005 09:47:30 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by nsbca7:
An amateur photographer was invited to dinner with friends and took along a few pictures to show the hostess. She looked at the photos and commented "These are very good! You must have a good camera."
He didn't make any comment, but, as he was leaving to go home he said "That was a really delicious meal! You must have some very good pots." |
I like that. So so true
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