What makes a Photographer when everyone is taking pictures?
Technology isn't changing the way of photography,It just makes it more available to younger people which "Think they are taking urban and indie photo's".When that's not the case, Just a lot more bad and awful pictures out in the world. Don't get me wrong,you don't have to be a qualified photographer to take a great picture,but what makes a great picture is patter,texture,form,lighting and position and these so call "Photographers" have no ideas what that is really,If your telling me someone who inspires to be a photographer could set up a shoot with all the camera setting such as the IOS,shutter speed,depth of field and aperture but on top of that set all the studio lights back light,soft box and strobe light 9/10 people wont have an idea what to do,which brings me onto the whole Brooklyn Beckham,We all know he only got the job because of this Mother and Father and who they are but dose that make it fair? No it doesn't because as a photographer myself its as if they are saying anyone can do your job its easy,And its hard enough trying to make it in this industry we don't need a 16 year old to try and show us up,Don't get me wrong if I had the network like his mother and father dose I would give my kids the same opportunists but when you have to work and keep working to make your way to the top,To get what you want you feel that self accomplishment and achievement of your work and you can look back on the mistakes and you learn from them and that's what makes you a stronger photographer in every aspect.
But I cant help but feel this whole Brooklyn Beckham working for Burberry is just a phase and he will move onto something else I say this because just a year ago he wanted to be an actor but soon changed his mind sound like a typical rich spoilt boy and his mother and father encourage his attitude that you don't not need training for different professions and it kinda mocks hard work,These people put in their career,most of these people have gone to university and have paid up to £9,000 just for there training,Its also funny how Jaden Smith is one of the top leading female models for Louis Vuitton,Its seems to be its not what you know,but who you know and who your parents are.
Brooklyn Beckham:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/brooklyn-beckham-lands-dream-job-7275265
Jaden Smith:
https://www.thewrap.com/jaden-smith-will-smith-reaction-you-cannot-wear-a-skirt/
Everyone can go on-line and watch videos on how to used cameras,But what really makes and photographer is dedication and patience to capturer the right image you can sit for hour on end waiting for that wondrous moment when everything falls into place,And you get the shoot you have been waiting for.there is no better feeling when a shoot all comes together,Which brings me onto special occasions when it comes to hiring a photographer you want the best your not going to book someone who hasn't had an training or really any experience in that field of work your going to want to hire the best of the best and your going to want someone with a qualification and years of experience not some shaddy so call photographer.and like that saying you pay for what you get and when it comes to photographer you do need the best.
What makes a good photographer is if you can do a technique but do it more than once but each time you do this technique you get better and you always tweak and define,your work each time,But when it comes to criticism,you are your own critic it doesn't matter if everyone doesn't like your work as long as your are happy with it but they do say an "Artist never finish their work",But I suppose every artist feels like there work is never finish as you always want to improve on your work.I can say from experience that when I have finished doing a shoot,there is always something I wished I could of done better but maybe that's because I go too hard on myself and I just want to succeed in every part of my work as I thrive on success,As I am starting from the bottom I don't not have access to any networks.so when I see people getting jobs which they know nothing about upsets me because I have worked my back off to be where I am today and it isn't an easy job to do.When a lot of people think its just point and push a button when that isn't the case,There is a lot more to it,I had to sort a shoot all on my own not so long ago and it was the most hardest thing I have even done,Trying to work around other peoples time and on top of that having to sort make up,outfits,modules,where your shooting and let me just say its not an easy job to do when there is only one of you,But I will say all that hard work pays off at the end,when I seen the end result there is no better feeling than knowing you put you all into that about for it to come out the way it have you just feel so proud of yourself and it is worth it in the end to see your work and knowing how much you spent doing it.
The 35mm film standard was developed by Thomas Edison and produced by George Eastman, who founded the Eastman Kodak company. The film was originally designed for motion picture films sprocket to aid in movie production and projection.
Because it was difficult to focus viewfinder cameras, range-finders were developed. A range-finder uses a prism and a mirror to create two separate images. As a lens is focused, the prism moves. Focusing a range-finder is a matter of lining up the two images.
After Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype process and it developed to the darkroom as worked in the tent or dark room to develop the film and papers processing in the 18 century.I like the quote of the Chinese word about Camera Obscura and pinhole theory, "In the earliest 5th century B.C., it was first discovered by the Chinese that if one made a small hole in the wall of a darkened room, an inverted image of the outside is projected from the pinhole to the wall opposite the small hole. No matter the distance to the opposite wall, the image of the outside was projected onto it. Shorten or lengthen the distance to change the size of the projection."
But I cant help but feel this whole Brooklyn Beckham working for Burberry is just a phase and he will move onto something else I say this because just a year ago he wanted to be an actor but soon changed his mind sound like a typical rich spoilt boy and his mother and father encourage his attitude that you don't not need training for different professions and it kinda mocks hard work,These people put in their career,most of these people have gone to university and have paid up to £9,000 just for there training,Its also funny how Jaden Smith is one of the top leading female models for Louis Vuitton,Its seems to be its not what you know,but who you know and who your parents are.
Brooklyn Beckham:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/brooklyn-beckham-lands-dream-job-7275265
Jaden Smith:
https://www.thewrap.com/jaden-smith-will-smith-reaction-you-cannot-wear-a-skirt/
Everyone can go on-line and watch videos on how to used cameras,But what really makes and photographer is dedication and patience to capturer the right image you can sit for hour on end waiting for that wondrous moment when everything falls into place,And you get the shoot you have been waiting for.there is no better feeling when a shoot all comes together,Which brings me onto special occasions when it comes to hiring a photographer you want the best your not going to book someone who hasn't had an training or really any experience in that field of work your going to want to hire the best of the best and your going to want someone with a qualification and years of experience not some shaddy so call photographer.and like that saying you pay for what you get and when it comes to photographer you do need the best.
What makes a good photographer is if you can do a technique but do it more than once but each time you do this technique you get better and you always tweak and define,your work each time,But when it comes to criticism,you are your own critic it doesn't matter if everyone doesn't like your work as long as your are happy with it but they do say an "Artist never finish their work",But I suppose every artist feels like there work is never finish as you always want to improve on your work.I can say from experience that when I have finished doing a shoot,there is always something I wished I could of done better but maybe that's because I go too hard on myself and I just want to succeed in every part of my work as I thrive on success,As I am starting from the bottom I don't not have access to any networks.so when I see people getting jobs which they know nothing about upsets me because I have worked my back off to be where I am today and it isn't an easy job to do.When a lot of people think its just point and push a button when that isn't the case,There is a lot more to it,I had to sort a shoot all on my own not so long ago and it was the most hardest thing I have even done,Trying to work around other peoples time and on top of that having to sort make up,outfits,modules,where your shooting and let me just say its not an easy job to do when there is only one of you,But I will say all that hard work pays off at the end,when I seen the end result there is no better feeling than knowing you put you all into that about for it to come out the way it have you just feel so proud of yourself and it is worth it in the end to see your work and knowing how much you spent doing it.
History of Cameras
Technology has come a long way since 18th century to,today with are very lucky to have such easy ways of taking pictures and all in a instance and everyone has some kinda access to a camera weather that's phones,computer web cam,digital,old film and single use cameras and that's what I love about technology how it only gets better with time and I wanted to talk about how far we have come over the years in photographer and the process.
Camera Obscura
The Camera Obscura is an ancient optical device. In its most basic form it is, quite simply, a dark room with a small hole in one wall. On the wall opposite the hole, an image is formed of whatever is outside. This image is upside-down (inverted) and back to front (laterally transposed).The size of the hole has a great effect on the picture that is being projected. A small hole produces a sharp image, which is dim, while a larger hole produces a brighter picture which is less well focused.This happens because light travels in straight lines, a property known as the rectilinear propagation of light
Dry Plate
Dry plate, in photography, glass plate coated with a gelatin emulsion of silver bromide. It can be stored until exposure, and after exposure it can be brought back to a darkroom for development at leisure.These qualities were great advantages over the wet collodion process, in which the plate had to be prepared just before exposure and developed immediately after. The dry plate, which could be factory produced, was introduced in 1871 by R.L. Maddox. It was superseded by celluloid film early in the 20th century.
How to do your own
"If you want a vintage look in your work then dry plate glass negatives may be a good alternative to explore.Depending on your creative vision you can create very high quality negatives using the dry plate process on glass or your can go for an older vintage look that you can only get from the historic processes.You can scan them in or contact print them in the darkroom, or put them in your enlarger and make prints too"
35mm
Because it was difficult to focus viewfinder cameras, range-finders were developed. A range-finder uses a prism and a mirror to create two separate images. As a lens is focused, the prism moves. Focusing a range-finder is a matter of lining up the two images.
Dark Room
I can see how the darkroom techniques in the past has changed to digital darkroom. The darkroom is the dark room or dark walls or dark box that you can see the image from a small hole that shined by outside and entered an inverted image in the opposite wall and you can sketch the image or look at the image. Also the photographic techniques with the chemicals had changed since Daguerre invented. Now, we are doing in the digital darkroom with the computer and softwares with multiply processing of the digital photography.
I have worked in dark room and I can say its one of the best things you can do as a photographer to see your work come out at the end,you will find it hard at first but soon as you get it,you never forget it.
Even though technology is changing,it doesn't necessary mean its a bad thing,Don't get me wrong you can create some beautiful paces of work with the old cameras but,you dont get the fresh and focused image,and also you have it right there is if its out of focus or blurry you can retake it with the old cameras you didn't know what it looked like till you was in the darkroom,so if it wasn't how you wanted it you would have to retake it and it consumes a lot more time so when it comes to dark room I would put all your focus into the work you do as it can be very stressful.
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