m3 Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Honeymoon capital of the world, Niagara falls, NY USA.....full time loser, haven't worked in nine months. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie999 Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 US Mountain Time. Amateur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britt_park Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Scotts Valley, CA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistair_gray1 Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Alistair Gray Lake District Cumbria U.K. Amateur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_eskridge Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Real estate agent from South Carolina (USA), but former engineer. Use my photography hobby primarily to record family and places. Long live Kodachrome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lutz Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Lutz Konermann, Zurich, Switzerland, "semi-pro" (?) - I work as a movie director, cinematographer, screenwriter and professor for film making. Started out as an amateur photographer 30 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h._p. Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 One time editorial / commercial photographer, now a happy snapper :-) Swindon, Wiltshire, England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_horn Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Retired, amature, Leica since 1978 (M-only + Trinovid 7x42B) Arizona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_barnett2 Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 I don't like this bit about "I am very interested in about who are the professionals, because your experience and comments are very important." It sounds like you want to ignore any useful future input from anyone but 'pros'. In any case, I think you will find the 'pros' more set in their ways and only understand a small gamut of experience, whereas amateurs read the magazines and books and learn more. Take film processing, most pro's stick to one developer because its the safe known entity for their commercial work. Amateurs on the other hand have the luxury to experiment with a broader range of chemicals simply because it isn't a 'pay the food bill or die' situation. But what the heck. Steve Barnett, ex pro photojournalist, currently model manufacturer, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy. Posted March 23, 2003 Author Share Posted March 23, 2003 Steve, I agree with you and I am sorry if I offended the amateur group. It wasn't meant to come across sounding like that. Apologize again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fay_cori Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Enthusiastic amateur, living in Cardigan, Wales UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_kastner Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Hey Sandy, ol' pal! I've been living here (for more than a month or two) in the <i>real</i> Berlin, as you can see from my address (although I think there is, in fact, a total of 7 Berlins on this globe). I am a research scientist checking out this, that and the other, so watch your hair, spit, ... etc as re DNA. My hobbies include cooking, classical music (also playing it on my own instruments), scuba diving, biking, raising the labradors (dogs). In my spare time -- if I have it -- I go out (w or w/o one of the bikes) and shoot my M6 TTL full. I'm not even a good amateur! <p>As re time o' day, it is here in Leica land exactly 6 h later than "Eastern" time, or 9 h later than e.g. in Seattle or Anchorage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kajabbi Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Tunkhannock, Pa. Retired Sales Manager, Leica user since 1952. Stayed for a year or so to Contax SLRs but quickly saw the "light". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry_kincaid1 Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 From from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Another want-to-be-advanced amateur who recently (last year) and happily switched from a manual Pentax Spotmatic to totall automatic Nikon N80 to M6 ttl. I appreciate all the comments on the forum, from any level, new amateur to active and retired professional. And the forum is much more interesting because of contributions from all over the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gee-bug Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Amateur. Denver, CO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjarke_vejby Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Bjarke, Denmark, amateur ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew1 Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Brooklyn, NY. After six years as an assistant and freelance photog and teaching photography and B&W darkroom freelance, I have taken a job selling lighting gear and darkroom supplies at B&H! Also recently started teaching regular classes with two community organizations here in Brooklyn- and still shooting some freelance stuff. Come see me in the store over in the lighting department next time you are in B&H (and pray for me back in retail...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew n.bra hrefhttp Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Blue Mountains (outside Sydney) Australia.<P> Professional "QuickTime VR" (1995-). Hobby "candid people stills" (1980-).<P> Leica user since 1998, Nikon F/F2/F4 user 1980-98. Use film only despite all work being delivered to clients in digital form (for www or cd-rom use).<P> [<A HREF="http://www.nemeng.com">nemeng.com</A>] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd_phillips1 Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Professional in US Midwest.Member of ASMP and a PPofA Master Photographer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Alex Shishin. Akashi, Japan. Non-profit street photographer. Also writer. Full time professor, British and American literature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd thacker Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Hawaii, the blue Pacific. Amateur until the check arrives. Amateur afterwards. Looking to move to New Zealand. If you think you can help, or offer advice, email me.<P> Allen Herbert - That was the best thing I've yet seen written here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd thacker Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 And by "here" I mean <I>on the internet</I>. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingell Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Apalachin, NY--Remember the l957 mob meeting? I wasn't here then, unfortunately. I'm a former professional--news correpondent, feature writer and photographer for 15 years. Been using Leicas since mid-60s. And Steve is correct: those tight deadlines didn't allow for a lot of experimentation--it was Tri-X and Acufine down the line (Diafine in Vietnam--better temperature latitude). I still do a little photofeature work. And I don't care whether the advice is coming from an amateur or pro--only matters that it's good advice. The forum is a godsend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronald_wills Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Ron Wills, Long Beach, California, long time amateur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy. Posted March 23, 2003 Author Share Posted March 23, 2003 Sandy, I live in California. Street photographer. Considerable experience with painting and writing.<P>The question of "amateur" or "pro" seems largely irrelevant to me regarding photography. There is plenty of nice work that never gets "bought", and lots of pure crap that does.<P>By your standard, van Gogh would have had to answer-"Amateur".;) <P><a href="http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=523880">-- Ray Haack</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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