Amateurs vs Pros (Interesting Quote!)

I just want to be a photographer, not labeled as amateur or pro. People tend to look down on someone labeled amateur and expect too much from someone labeled pro. I just wanna take pictures!
 
2) Those who can, DO. Those who can't, TEACH. I don't really have much of a comment to this one other than many of the teaches/professors at the art school in our closest big city are total buffoons. Can't speak to the issue of this being typical or not. But it is in Cincinnati.
Yeha tell me about it. I tend to find most art teachers to be artists who couldnt make it in the real world. My aunt's ex is one of those and, he is arrogant to boot.
The diffrence to me is one gets paid the other is just enjoying playing around.
 
So no one has ever met a professional portrait photographer working in their own studio pamper their equipment?

I have... Their business depends on it and their limited financial resources do not allow them to treat their equipment with "utter disdain".

I agree.... the difference between pro and amateur is one makes a living from it and others get a pat. A lot of it has to do with marketing. I've ran into a few amateurs that could probably go professional if they want to... they just make a more comfortable living at what they are doing now. I have also seen some professional prints that make me say "How in the world do they actually sell those?"
 
I have also seen some professional prints that make me say "How in the world do they actually sell those?"

Those are the moments when I myself consider becoming a pro (for about 5 minutes or so)...

But then again there are pros where i can see that I will never reach their level ;)
 
While I like my camera well enough to see to it it doesn't get stolen or so, I am not emotionally attached to it as THE means to produce the images I want to produce! That detachment alone would make me a pro? Ha! Ridiculous. I am an amateur and even mean to remain one for the rest of my life. Give or take the odd commission on which I worked and prints I have sold, I will never become a pro and don't even want that to happen! Which does not make me suddenly LOVE my camera more! It is useful to work with some good equipment, and the more specialised you become as the amateur you are, the more useful even better equipment might be, but all in all even I, the declared amateur, know that the image starts in one's own head, and the camera and anything beyond only serves to transfer the image from inside my head into some kind of tangible something that also others can see.
 
I think people are taking the quote a little too literally! :wink:

Of course the 'true' difference between the amateur and the pro is that the pro gets paid...

I think what the quote is really trying to get at is the difference between individuals 'starting out' and those really 'in the know'.
 
I think people are taking the quote a little too literally! :wink:

Of course the 'true' difference between the amateur and the pro is that the pro gets paid...

I think what the quote is really trying to get at is the difference between individuals 'starting out' and those really 'in the know'.

See, you landed a hit thread very early in your career here ;)

of course you are right, but sometimes it just needs a keyword and a thread goes amok or is hijacked ;)

Happy New year anyway :)
 
The fact is, the words amateur or professional say very little about how good any particular 'tog is. It just means that one is paid for doing it, the other is not.

One would hope that the pro is better because they are getting paid for it, unfortunately, I, like usayit, have seen some pretty poor results from pros, and then I visit flickr, look around and see some very specacular results from someone that has average equipment but a good eye. Then you see that one pro who's work is humbling and makes one wish they were that good.
 
The difference between a Pro and an Amateur?

The Amateur is more fun to be around because their passion hasn't been tempered by their need to eat. :lol::lol::lol:

Well, my real passion is food, so does that make me an amateur or a pro? :mrgreen:
 
Maybe it makes you a professional EATER!?!?!?!?!
 
Well, my real passion is food, so does that make me an amateur or a pro? :mrgreen:
So Im guessing you are like my brother-in-law and, when you walk into someones house, the first thing you do is look in the refridgerator. :lol:
 

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