What type of photographer are you?

[Chris101]

I voted Fictional. As I often photograph to show things are they aren't, but should be.

 

[helen.HH]

Hmmmmm...my First thought looking at the Choices
Was 'Fictional' which really made no sense just made my Imagination GIGGLE
Then I Thought 'Street' but have never really clicked with that Word

I see it as shooting/Documenting 'Life' .....'Life in Motion'
So I boringly Hit the Last Box ... other, please Explain 😉

 

[Hjortsberg]

I'm amazingly average.

Just got back some prints from the lab and I'm average. Really, really average.

 

[Dylan Hope]

I'm a student at the moment, so I can't afford to be exclusive, fiscally or academically 😉
That said, I primarily shoot street and (if personal work means my day-to-day goings on and what like) personal in my own time, and weddings for profit. I'd love to get into commercial and editorial later on though.
Voted for wedding though I'm sure(more like 'Hoping') that won't stick for more than a few years

 

[back alley]

first, let me say, that if you don't like this poll...maybe create one of your own and stop bitchin' about this one.

and second...well, there is is no second...only the first!

 

[merciless49]

i'm an amateur photographer who wants to be better at all types and styles of photography!

 

[happy]

Documentary, photojournalism. My favorite genre is the photoessay. I do like to dabble in a little bit of everything, just like most of the rest of you guys I'm sure.

I choose "Other" because to me most of the choices reflected what kind of pictures a person takes rather then what kind of photographer they are.

In the simplest terms I believe there are two basic types of photographer and/or artist
1. Creators: To me these are people who have a firm idea of the image(s) the want and go out and find it or create it from scratch in many cases.

2 Observers, I'm one of these, Need to have some kind of visual stimulation This can be something as simple as a pattern of shadows on a wall. A model, picking up something that you never ever thought of using as a props but the second you see it in her hand the ideas just start coming. Or just about anything that make you stop and say I need to take a picture of that or if you're in the middle of a shoot instantly forget about what you intended to shoot in favor something completely different.

I like to draw from both of these sources.

 

[j j]

I'm amazingly average.

Just got back some prints from the lab and I'm average. Really, really average.

Congratulations! That makes you considerably better than me. I am generally very poor except for a few lucky accidents that happen once in a while.

 

[robert blu]

me, personal because...

me, personal because...

I voted personal because all my photography which is not a profession, is not an hobby but is a passion is somehow related to myself, my feelings and thinkings .
robert

 

[dave lackey]

I voted personal because all my photography which is not a profession, is not an hobby but is a passion is somehow related to myself, my feelings and thinkings .
robert

I like that, Robert...🙂

 

[bigeye]

Personal: Some of my photos delight me and probably few others. My best shots directly or indirectly document my life and those around me.

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[jsrockit]

Hmmmmm...my First thought looking at the Choices
Was 'Fictional' which really made no sense just made my Imagination GIGGLE
Then I Thought 'Street' but have never really clicked with that Word

I see it as shooting/Documenting 'Life' .....'Life in Motion'
So I boringly Hit the Last Box ... other, please Explain 😉

Ah helen... you are either street or personal.

 

[jsrockit]

In the simplest terms I believe there are two basic types of photographer and/or artist:

1. Creators: To me these are people who have a firm idea of the image(s) the want and go out and find it or create it from scratch in many cases.

2 Observers, I'm one of these, Need to have some kind of visual stimulation This can be something as simple as a pattern of shadows on a wall. A model, picking up something that you never ever thought of using as a props but the second you see it in her hand the ideas just start coming. Or just about anything that make you stop and say I need to take a picture of that or if you're in the middle of a shoot instantly forget about what you intended to shoot in favor something completely different.

Man, my poll could have been so much easier... 😀 I agree with your streamlining.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Other - explain

I like to photograph what's in front of me. I can pay as much attention to a flower as I can to a "street" scene, landscape, nude, whether I'm on vacation, at a wedding or engaged on a specific pet project.

The majority of people like to narrow-focus (too narrowly, imvho) on a technique, a film, a lens, a format, a camera, a subject. I know that makes things easier to digest, but along with the ability of forming long, multilayered paragraphs that have given way to short, spoon-feedable baby food sentences, so have audiences' ability to digest anything "too complex" or "least distracting".

In wanting to be "unique", most have sought uniqueness in tracked simplicity.

Not to be confused with passion. A passion for a subject may be one thing, which is not to be confused with specialty (you may have either, but one does not necessarily mean the other).

He dicho.

 

[jsrockit]

I like to photograph what's in front of me. I can pay as much attention to a flower as I can to a "street" scene, landscape, nude, whether I'm on vacation, at a wedding or engaged on a specific pet project.

I call this personal photography really. The ability to have absolute freedom in what you photograph. However I know labels always irk people.

 

[jky]

For the past two years, it's been mainly "Family"... although I would have loved to put down "street" (which in fact is the goal this year - more street pics).

I must add that it was quite a revelation to me how my street pics (in my opinion anyway) have improved by shooting my family... or perhaps I've become a slightly better editor?
🙂

 

[shadowfox]

Exactly... while I make photos that are in many of the categories above, I feel exactly like the part I bolded in your quote. That is why I chose personal and included it. I'm happy to see like minded people here.

I think more people fit into this category than the poll result indicates.
But most people think that because it's personal, it's immediately associated with "not good enough" or "private."

While I bet most if not all "master" photographers started out as a personal photographer. They just put the necessary time and resource into it to eventually make something special that others recognize.

 

[jsrockit]

I think more people fit into this category than the poll result indicates. But most people think that because it's personal, it's immediately associated with "not good enough" or "private."

I agree completely. Personal doesn't mean you don't ever do anything with it. There are plenty of photographers whose work is personal and they have numerous books and exhibits.

 

[robklurfield]

I didn't see "inept," "sloppy" or "dust magnet" as choices. I guess that qualifies me as "other."

 

[jippiejee]

I'm just the silent observer...