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| The Sekonic L398A light meter |
Pointing a telephone camera and freezing a scene really isn’t my idea of photographic knowledge.
Using an external light meter and operating a camera without an internal light meter that adjusts the aperture and shutter speed, framing the picture and focusing the scene, that’s my solid definition of a photographer. At that point you understand just what makes a photograph.
Developing your own film that takes you to the next level.
Selling your photographs that you have manually produced, you are a professional photographer.
A guy that takes pictures, manipulates the digital image in a computer and sends it to the printer to sell, or takes orders from a client to produce photographs?
I’m not really sure where I’m going with this but to me, that’s sort of a photograph producer manipulating digital files with a computer. I love my D780 and the processor in it that produces my images. It’s an amazing camera.
I also enjoy film and the processor of producing photographs on film.
Ansel Adams is a photographer.
No disrespect to any professional photographer, none intended or implied.
I’m just learning about my equipment, what it does, how it affects what I do. The process of learning is my reward as well as the photographs I produce.
My light meter is going with me.
I’m going to meter my photos and manually adjust my camera settings on the Mamiya 645 1000s.
I want to learn more about light and the effects on film.
I want to be a good photographer.
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| My second metered photograph, Portra 160 |
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