Photography Forum - Hibiscus - Page 1

It's quite amazing the quality of photos you guys take, to me (i mean this as a compliment but I know nothing about photography, as I've said before, I take snaps, and lots of them ) some of the photos i see here appear to be as good as those in magazines etc. I guess cos v high quality equipment is affordable nowadays.

i can understand what one of my neighbours means now. he's a keen birdwatcher and camera enthusiast, and I've seen some stunning photos of his, but he can't get his photos published as they're "too ordinary". As disheartening as that is for him, looking here, I can see why a magazine may say that, they must get so much stuff, that it must have to be really special to publish. Bit like Pokemon snap on N64, getting pikachu gets a you a few points, but he has to be surfing to make it worth your while

Pretty sure I speak for all of us when I say that we all do it for the pleasure, it's a hobby, as nice as having our work published and being paid for the privelidge would be, we appreciate the chances of that happening are very minimal.

I can't really comment on your neighbour's pictures, without seeing them, but I'd guess by now there are pretty much hundreds of thousands of decent pictures any publisher could use for any given wildlife subject. To use his over them would really require the sort of exceptional shot we see in those wildlife photographer of the year competitions.

I think to be any sort of published photographer these days you have to put as much effort into getting your work seen as you do concentrating on your type of work, and you have to specialise. So get a long lens and be a papparazzi, and then get enough shots of enough people others haven't got to break into that. Get a very long lens and shoot wildlife, but you'd have to be catching something incredibly rare or some iconic image on a regular basis to get anywhere there.

The other route would be as a professional where you shoot whatever clients will pay you to shoot, which is even more work and effort. You'll have to get a website to show off your work, do the whole social media thing, etc, etc.

There are plenty of other routes too such as photography as art, but they all pretty much come down to the same thing, time and effort beyond actually taking photographs which I really doubt us hobbyists could stomach unless our aim was ultimately a career change.

I know I take okay enough photographs, but I also know that whilst I generally might shoot things with a certain style or mood, there are millions out there that do anything I do better and I have no niche of my own to plough. And I'm just happy enough playing around with it as a hobby.


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