Have To say I am very troubled by this statement.

denizg7

denizg7

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So there is this site and it says

"Being a photographer means owning more than one lens."

I can see a lot of professinal DSLR users can get mad at people with money buying the same products and taking bad pictures , but I find that statement very troubling and wrong. I feel like there is a mass DSLR user community that are just hypocrites that are semi awake.. I don't consider myself a photographer as I don't do this for money or as my only paying work but that's me..

Henry Cartier Bresson used almost a single lens his entire career and he is to me a legend as to many of you he is too I am sure.. I believe that you have to work with the equipment that works best for you and people shouldn't really make these wrong statements..

I don't know it just bothered me so I thought I'd share..
 
I agree with the first paragraph but after that is hogwash..
 
Not sure how one can say that. Plenty of photographers were famous using only one focal length/lens. I'm not upset. I just find that silly.
 
i feel kinda of dissapointed at people in general when I read it because a lot of people agree with that statement and feel like they just spoke their mind :(


(someone I know shared this link and said this is the website I've been looking for)
 
I used an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic body with a Super Takumar 28/3.5 lens for years. However, as years passed I acquired a few more lenses, all primes, of different focal lengths. I wouldn't get my shorts in a twist over statements like that. Being a photographer definitely does not mean owning more than one lens. A dictionary definition of a photographer does not discuss equipment. The statement is not fact but opinion.
 
I don't care what is a photographer or what is not. Anyone who owns an iphone can call themselves a photographer for all i care. Whatever makes people happy :)
 
denizg7 said:
I don't consider myself a photographer as I don't do this for money or as my only paying work but that's me..
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A bit off topic, but I thought you were getting this great job and being flown all over the place to photograph in boardrooms and offices etc, and you were asking for equipment advice a few weeks back? Did that ever come to pass? Or am I imagining things?
 
Vince Lupo said:
A bit off topic, but I thought you were getting this great job and being flown all over the place to photograph in boardrooms and offices etc, and you were asking for equipment advice a few weeks back? Did that ever come to pass? Or am I imagining things?
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Basically the VP's roof flew open (He lives in long island) and the secreteary wanted me to give them about 10 days until we talked about it since there were other important things happening, but yeah pm me so I can give you all the details everything is going according to plan now.
 
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Judging a quick look through the site, I'd guess this site is designed to showcase what some people consider bad photos (and they probably are bad). I'd say the idea for the site came from somebody with low self esteem or and ego as big a Jupiter and making fun of other people makes these people feel good about themselves.
 
It's not what I'd consider a high quality website with regards to content.
I wouldn't fret over it.
 
HCB used more than one lens.. Maybe not in the beginning since 50's were the standard made, but once they made other focal lengths, he used them....
Not that it matters, just saying.
 
Any site that has popups that jiggle has no credibility for me ... their opinions mean little! Why bother Dennis?


And oh yes! Having a link to that awful site and a mention of HCB in the same post is absolute sacrilige.
 
One who takes photographs is a photographer.

Does it really need to be any more complicated than that?
 
I think that's a wrong site. Read this site not sisters from different misters or it can be too late.
 
Hah, couple years from now, and we all are using smartphones with a better camera than none of the DSLR s available today. I am using the Lumia 920, just unbelieveable...
Once Nokia will come with a version that has a true optical zoom. That`s it with DSLR s...
 
denizg7 said:
Henry Cartier Bresson used almost a single lens his entire career and he is to me a legend as to many of you he is too I am sure..
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As a legend he deserve's to have his photographs looked at, studied, and carefully digested. But the problem is that myth's get started on the internet and snippets of information can be dropped into any conversation almost unchallenged. So why don't people look at the photographs before saying these things?

Of course HCB used other lenses, he used then often, whenever he wanted to, freely. He used the lens to suit the subject. He had a camera bag which wasn't used to carry his sandwiches, he carried other lenses. Is that sorted now?
 
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