If you aren't really a photographer, at least with a LF you'll look like one. Especially when you have that hood over your head while you take the picture.
If you aren't really a photographer, at least with a LF you'll look like one. Especially when you have that hood over your head while you take the picture.
Greg Lockrey
Wealth is a state of mind.
Money is just a tool.
Happiness is pedaling +25mph on a smooth road.
Somehow, the most widespread stereotype about photographers in this city is the one of paparazzi.Originally Posted by cyrus
Cartier-Bresson wrote somewhere that the only thing that photographers have in common is that they all use cameras. (I am paraphrasing his statement.) I agree. There's such diversity in approach and outcome that generalizations about photographers seem foolhardy.
Still, you can say without self-contradiction that large-format photographers have not taken the easy road to image-making. That choice can be interpreted as either intellectual or the opposite.
I don't think photography is often an intellectual process. Even using a big camera, or a complicated one. Learning skills and procedures is more a matter of rote than deep thought.
Talking about photography is the more intellectual pursuit. For better or worse.
I find photographers (the majority in THIS community excluded, of course) annoying.
They typically are afflicted with lens envy, are hell bent on proving their depth of knowledge with respect to everything photography-related by boring the living dog dookie out of whomever deigns (or is cornered, fallen and can't get up and or away, etc...) to listen. And apparently, they have formed a clandestine society, the sole purpose of which is to convince me that a Nikon D70 is the absolute best tool available for achieving an extraordinary level of quality in photographic imagery. They are a frightfully edgy lot, imposing themselves in private conversations, perpetually extolling the ultimate "truth" with respect to whatever subject the unfortunate original conversationalists happened to have been discussing.
Take particular care, o intrepid buckaroo, not to offer a contrary view point when assailed by a photographer, especially when in his natural environment, the photography trade show. SHOW THEM NOT YOUR FILM! They are all masters of the Diabolical Arts, and are prone to invoke the names of their demigods in an effort to bring about thy demise; "Pixx-El!" "Digi Tal Bak!" "Dee Pee Revue!" These are the war cries of the demonstrably enraged photographer, and indicate an attack of boorish suppression of any thought not sanctioned by their disciples is exceedingly likely to be at hand!!!!
Yet...we must fight...we can defeat them. Hand me my long-lens! Extend the bellows!
Sulu...load the 5x7 film holders!!!! Damn the megapixels!!!! FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!!!!
OK...it's Friday...and it has been a long, arduous work week. I'll go to my room now.
Note that I'm talking about a popular perception of LF photographers - not how LF photographers really are. If I dare call myself an LF photographer, I know for a fact that I for one am as dumb as a yak!
Beware the photon torpedoes!
Hmmm... wonder why some of my friends tells me I'm absolutely NUTS for lugging all that weight around on my back?
Then, there's the comment about lugging a huge tripod over my shoulder!
Masochistic? - Definitely!
Cheers
Life in the fast lane!
when my old fiction writing professor found out i was a photographer, he rolled his eyes and said, 'god, the only thing worse than a room full of bridge players is room full of photographers.'
never been in a room full of bridge players, but i think i know what he means.
I don't know about everybody else, but I'm a dumbass.
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