On Jan 10, 2007, at 6:23 AM, William Robb wrote: >> I'm a bit confused and surprised at some of the comments relating to >> Cory's posts. Whether somebody is making photographs to create art or >> records surely they are still a photographer if they control how or >> what is being photographed? > > By definitions I have read here, as soon as you pick up a camera, > you are a > "photographer". > ... > This photography thing is a two edged sword, not a butchers knife. > There is > both a technical aspect and an aesthetic aspect involved. > > We tend to denigrate the "dummy mode" camera users who call themselves > photographers, since they don't have a clue about the technical > aspects, the > *hows* of what we do, but really, if you don't have a sense of the > aesthetic > you are even more crippled regarding photography. The camera can > make you > sufficiently technically proficient, even on green dummy mode, but > some > education that trains the aesthetic eye is also required, to give > you a > sense of the *whys* of what we do.
Agree with you completely, Bill. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
