1) what type and brand of camera, do u use for your self-portrait pics?
2) being a photographer, is that mean u gotta know how to do photoshop and other graphic stuffs?
3) in these days with digicam technology, does photographer still use dark room?
i'm asking these all of question, it's because i always wanna be a professional photographer but never got courage to take it seriously. so now i think it's time for me to make it serious. btw i love photography but don't really like design thing with computer, is it still possible to become photographer with my limited skills?
if i go to photography school, how long it take? how do u find out yourself that u r actually photographer material? i found out that i fond of it, cause i madly in love to shoot anything. is that enough of being one? I've done it all, from weddings, to glamor, to industrial, to portrait, in short, just about everything. From the darkroom days to photoshop and I prefer photoshop then hours in the darkroom. Plus today I have one hell of a lot more control.
Yes people still use darkrooms, digital is not quite there and purists will always love the magic of sloshing solutions to get their magic.
Equipment. Simple, buy the best dammed digital camera that allows you to override the auto settings that you can afford. I use a Canon Power Shot A640 10mp beauty. I've had all the glamor camera's one would want, from 4x5 field camera, to Hasselblad, to Lieca, to a wonderful Richo digital with interchangeable lenses and I prefer the smallness, lightness and unubtrustiveness of the one I use today.
Take photo's, tons of them. Learn the rules, master them. Look at art books, copy other peoples style, find your own, let your imagination fly. I've always said that there are a million photographs within 20 paces of your front door. Learn to find them.
If you'd like to see some of my work, go to my profile and click on the link I have there. It's a young web site, but I think you'll get the idea that I've been around the block a few times with a camera.
As far as photo software, photoshop is the best. I use photoshop CS and use a few tricks, some of the filters, a black and white plug in and thats about it. What I do with photoshop is really not difficult to learn once you get the basics out of the way. Plus, what I can do with a photo in photoshop could take me hours in a darkroom and 15 minutes with photoshop.
In the 70's and 80's when I hung out my photo shingle, it was easy to find work. Now, with every mother and their son being a photographer and digital making the learning curve considerably shorter, plus one hell of a lot less expensive. It's making it harder to break into the profession.
I hope this helps
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The reason digital is not there is because the whites still get blown out, sometimes very hard to control even through photoshop, and there is nothing like an 8x10 view camera for incredible detail. Plus, black and white prints sing, whereas a b&w with digital just doesn't do it -- not yet, but it will happen. Finally, film is more archival then digital, simply because, in 50 years will the technology still exist to read the material we store our images in, from CD's to hard drives.
A properly washed and stored negative and print will last hundreds of years. I've got some of my 4x5 negatives and prints stored at the national archives of historical buildings. They are still doing all of that with film and prints.
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Jim 1)minolta...but they are going out of buisness so nikon
2)yes, if you ever want to get anywhere with it
3)yes its best to know how to use a dark room and have one since in 2009 places like cvs and walmart will stop developing film. Film will still be sold but you will have to develop it yourself. (and of coourse you will still be able to get digital prints)
My advice...show your photos at art shows, and try some black and whites... It will teach you haw to ues the elements of design to your advantage. Also play around with photoshop Im a third year design student and it isn't a difficult program to use. Also if you are going to art school I highly reccomend buying a Mac.
Art school takes however long you want it to take, just as any other school will. Depending on your course load and what sort of degree you are doing for.
best of luck
-tara 1) what type and brand of camera, do u use for your self-portrait pics?
- I don't do self portraits: Canon mostly.
2) being a photographer, is that mean u gotta know how to do photoshop and other graphic stuffs?
- yes, definitely - not necessarily graphic arts but definitely image / colour management and post production techniques.
3) in these days with digicam technology, does photographer still use dark room?
No - it's absolutely pointless as film technology is rapidly becoming redundant... you wouldn't learn to drive on a vintage car would you?
If you want some advice and direct feedback talk to local professionals - try good ones as the bottom feeders are often very defensive / insecure in my experience.
A degree will typically take you 3 years.
Re someone's statement above - I'd like to know in what way 'digital is not there'??
... this sounds like someone who is not up to speed with digital (I've been using DI commercially for major clients since the early 1990's) 1) any camera is ok, now so many brand in the market, but I use Nikon
2) better if you know it, I use coreldraw, corel-photopain program to edit or modif photo
3) you better memeber here, so many nice picture there
http://www.webshots.com/
4) so please email your photo to me th3dy@yahoo.com than I edit it for your for trial, than next time you do it your self th3dy@yahoo.com |
