I can take a picture well, they are good and everything, however there is a certain look about them, for example the pictures you see in Time magazine, or Rolling Stone...
2007-05-05 03:52:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
It all starts with the photographer. They see things differently than most people do and have an ability to compose the shot in a way that makes it interesting. They also understand color and form and know the various tricks of the trade with respect to depth of field and lighting ratios and white balance. On top of that, they have had extensive training and experience in controlling the exposure and metering the light correctly and focusing the lens in the right way. Finally, all this skill and knowledge might be slightly enhanced by having top of the line professional equipment and the software and post processing capability to go with it.
If you gave James Natchwey a disposable camera and sent him off to Bosnia or Sudan, I'd still expect him to come back with something that made me think. And Ansel Adams could take some wonderful landscapes with a consumer digicam and Annie Leibowitz could pull off a People Magazine cover with a Digital Rebel entry level DSLR. And then..the things I bet Henri Cartier Bresson could do with a Polaroid instant camera....
Professional photography looks good because the person behind the lens has most likely spent their entire life thinking about how to do it well.
2007-05-05 10:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by Tony 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all about training and experience. You can have all the professional equipment you can afford, but if you aren't trained how to work with it, and don't know what to do with the portrait after it's taken, it's just a picture. Not a piece of art.
2007-05-05 04:46:41 · answer #2 · answered by firey_cowgirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a bunch of different things. First the lenses pros use are ten times better than the average joe. Also pros use several studio strobes, reflectors, and other things to make the lighting look right. And finally, they just know what they are doing because they have taken literally over a million photos in their lifetime!
2007-05-05 05:49:18 · answer #3 · answered by felipetulsa 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thank you Michael~
Being a professional, I appreciate people knowing about experience, and what a pro has gone through to get to that picture.
Most think that if they get a good camera they are a pro.
Nope.
I have gone through years of training and several degrees to get to where I am now.
2007-05-05 04:33:30 · answer #4 · answered by Rob L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because real photographers develop the pictures themselves and they fix things in the darkroom. It takes time to fix the pictures. If it is digital then they fix it using photoshop. Pictures of people that are taken for photo shoot are always properly lit and the lighting crew sets that up.
2007-05-05 03:58:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's all about experience. If it was easy, anyone could do it.
2007-05-05 04:15:48 · answer #6 · answered by Michael B 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because they are not real.
Artificial enhancement.
2007-05-05 05:09:55 · answer #7 · answered by sonbola 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
they use photoshop to accent the lighting and colors.
2007-05-05 04:01:04 · answer #8 · answered by heyyouu 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's all about the lighting and the expensive lenses they use.
2007-05-05 03:59:49 · answer #9 · answered by somebody's a mom!! 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋