SciAggie
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This was a phrase I came across a while back on the internet and I thought it might make an interesting discussion here. When you are out with your camera, are you more like a fisherman or a hunter?
Do you wait and see what happens, then shoot if something comes along (fisherman)?
Do you go out with a thought or idea in mind to capture and work to make it happen (hunter)?
I am a little of both but find that I mostly look for photo opportunities - I guess I'm a photo phisherman.
Do you wait and see what happens, then shoot if something comes along (fisherman)?
Do you go out with a thought or idea in mind to capture and work to make it happen (hunter)?
I am a little of both but find that I mostly look for photo opportunities - I guess I'm a photo phisherman.
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charjohncarter
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SciAggie
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Lol - not quite what I had in mind. Nice fish though.
FrankS
Registered User
fisherman
I go out, open to whatever possibilites present themselves.
I go out, open to whatever possibilites present themselves.
cosmonaut
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Hunter. But generally what I go out to get doesn't pan out and something totally unexpected comes along.
MCTuomey
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The way I fish is much like the way I shoot. But I am not the passive fisherman you describe. I "prospect" when I fish, putting casts where there are fish, or at least hoping so. In practice the experience of fishing and shooting are alike for me.
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Nikon Bob
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Bob Michaels
nobody special
Definitely a hunter since I work on specific projects. Once a project gets going I have a pretty good idea of just what I am looking for. So I go where it might be, when it might be there.
back alley
IMAGES
more like a shark...a fish that hunts!
dct
perpetual amateur
I support this. As told in another thread: I need/have mostly a project running, if I go out to photograph. And this is mostly envolved with hunting for the correct moment, the light, the pray, the slaughter...
Ok, forget it: just hunting.
karlori
Digital Refugee
Regarding my photography i am an opportunist and become a fisherman or a hunter depending on my motivation and situation I am in. Regarding myself I'm a freediver and do spearfishing ...
FrankS
Registered User
Good one! As opportunities present themselves, I may use my fishing rod as a spear. So as many have indicated, it's a bit of both fishing and hunting rather than one or the other.
filmfan
Well-known
If I spearfish, does that count as both?
I can't just stand in one spot all day waiting for something to happen... I'm constantly moving and looking.
Neare
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I'm a fisherman by your definition. But I never wait for a shot to come along, I never stand in the same spot unless I'm waiting for a light to turn green.
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
I'm either a hunting fisherman, or a fishing hunter.
Sometimes both.
Sometimes both.
claacct
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If I was into portraits, then I'd be a headhunter.
paulfish4570
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both. and both ...
