Professional verus Amateur Photography

I consider myself to be an amateur photographer (if that). I started thinking what actually distinguishes a person from being an amateur photographer and a professional photographer. I consider a professional photographer to be someone who can make a profit off of their work. I looked at an article online and the web page agreed with me. However, they also presented arguments in the ability to take excellent photography makes an individual a professional photographer. An argument that they posted was "the hallmark of a true professional photographer is the ability to deliver a great photograph anytime, anywhere." To support this, they brought up examples of amateur photographers creating great photos and professional photographers producing poor quality photographs.  Although I don't support this argument, it is still something to think about.

http://www.diyphotography.net/pros-vs-joes-difference-between-amateur-and-professional-photographers/

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ISO 200, F 3.5, 1/925.9

ISO 200, F 3.2, 1/1182

 

ISO 200, F 3.5, 1/925.9

Ben Bolden

On Saturday, I am planning of going fly fishing in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. Therefor, I did some research on fly fishing photography in the mountains. That's when I stumbled upon a photographer named Ben Bolden. Bolden reminded me a lot of myself. He goes on annual fishing trips throughout Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming (to name a few) and takes pictures of what he sees. He reminds me of myself because we both like to fly fish in the mountains, and we both started out with Nikon cameras. However, I am new to both fly fishing and photography so my pictures probably won't turn out as well.

http://midcurrent.com/photography/ben-bolden/

Dominican Republic

In class, we have been working on our trips around the world. My group has been working on a trip to the Caribbean. This made me think of some of my personal trips to this region. When I was in high school, I went on three one week mission trips to the Dominican Republic. The landscape was very different to what I was accustomed to seeing in Wyoming.

This is what the entire environment looks like. All the plants are green and luscious. I think the crosses make for an interesting focusing point (especially if the contrast was increased).

This is me eating sugar cane for the first time. My red shirt really draws the attention of the eyes. The character on the far right should be cropped out and possibly the lady in the brown shirt be cloned into the background to make for a better picture.

This is a cool picture of wild tomatoes. Once again the red really draws the focus. I think that the picture would be better if there wasn't that glare on the tomatoes and plant.

This is a neat picture of a "wild" vaca looking left in the picture. I am not sure what could be done to make this picture better apart from cropping.

Pictures of Outside during Class

These are the pictures that I captured when we were instructed to take pictures last Thursday.

I shot this one with the following settings: 200, 1/32.5, and 8.0. I chose the 8.0 so that the foreground would be in focus and the background would be blurry to put an emphasis on the pretty leaves.

 

I shot this picture with the following settings: 200, 1/282.9, and 4.0. I initially thought that this would be a cool picture with the sun coming through the tree. However, it didn't turn out how I wanted it to so.....

 

I took the same picture with these settings: 200, 1/130, and 8.0. The increase of the focal value allowed for a better sun star. This was the photo that I desired.