The Bad Photographer

i am a very good photogrpaher but a bit arty .

Oh, I'm terrible. I'm too awkward and always manage to fumble the camera enough so that any picture I take turns out a bit blurred.

I haven't touched a camera for maybe 10 years. I am flaky and awful at it, and partly because of that not interested in photos hardly at all, although even still I would rather take one than be in one. Haven't seen a photo of myself bar passport and one departmental necessity in four or five years. I also have a v impoverished visual imagination - I'm all narrative - and find it very hard to work photographs and pictures for memories and associations.

Although I'm not a brilliant photographer, I have a quite decent camera. It is a Pentax SLR which I've had for thirteen years now. What I can't understand is these people who manage to chop off people's heads in pictures. It's quite simple to look through a viewfinder. My mother had an acquaintance whose pictures would all be like this, but she would still insist on showing the pictures to everyone. The little folder would come out of the handbag at a party or whatever and she would go through each in turn with whoever had the misfortune to be sitting next to her, explaining who each person was (as it was obviously difficult for the other person to work this out).

I can take photographs. I have an old SLR that I bought second-hand when I was holidaying in seattle.

I remember when members of my family would ask my gran to take a photograph with their camera she'd disregard the viewfinder completely and just hold the edge of the camera up to her eye and take the shot. the ones she took were always shit. of course. because the photograph she had was shifted about two feet from what she thought she was aiming at. with her eye. I kinda liked the photographs anyway.

I wouldn't mind being in a head chopped off picture. I don't know about this particular ineptness; my cackhandedness is more like Nicole said - fumbly, pressing camera down as I press the button, finger over shutter etc.

Pbotos (and now videos) are such a huge part of the culture of documenting our own lives that not to take them makes me feel like some kind of anomaly. AFter holidays I don't know what to say when people ask if I've got pictures. I mean, I could pompously opine that people spend too much time taking pictures - if you need a photo to remember it then the quality of your memories is weak, or they take them prove that they've had fun (or even just done something, anything), that they're incapable of living in the moment because they're too busy storing up a record of it, but that would be rude, and I'm not sure it's the whole story.

Again, though I'd never bluntly say it, I find almost anyone else's photos a bit difficult to sit through, however fascinating the place or event and however evocative the photograph. Like I said, my visual sense is quite weak, and I tend to switch off and disengage.

I'm good. But I'm a graphic artist and majored in film in college.

I'm good with objects and angles, dislike people in my shots, unless I can get them to be objects, have a nice SLR with no light meter so I have to bracket my speed/f-stop which makes it a pain and I hardly ever take photos these days.

I like to think I am great photographer (others may disagree). I like taking pictures of household appliances and furniture best of all.

I can make anybody feel at ease during a studio/portrait shoot. I never cut heads off.
I have excellent camera vision and compositional skills, I rarely need to crop my images.
I can use 35mm, 120, digital, polaroid, view cameras and video (digital or hi8).
I am equally adept in adobe photoshop and adobe premiere.
I can print in both colour and black and white, with colour being my specialty.
I take excellent slides as my attention to correct exposure is meticulous.
This year I have worked as a freelance photographer for such shoots as: fashion label launch photographs(on location), hairdressing portfolio shoot(seven models, on location at a crowded swimming pool complex (flourescent lighting = tricky!), CD cover photography (studio), documentation photographs of other senior student's work (studio), Graduation portrait shoots for two families (on location).
I co-instructed a photogram workshop at the DPAG where I was also a tour guide for the Magnum Photography exhibition for twelve weeks.
I finished my BFA in photography this year with an A pass.

I am a good photographer.

my technique is completely random. i never bother to learn how to do stuff properly. life's short!

Um, I didn't know you could post resumes here.

you mean Rainy, or me?

I have taken quite a few good photos, mainly landscape and architecture, but this year for the first time I 've taken some good portraits (3 to be precise). I own a nikon SLR and a russian hasselblad knock off. The Nikon's shutter has jammed open, and something is up with both my backs for the kiev. I'm working on christmas portraits for my friends using a minolta which is far too motorised and automatic (its been with me a week, no manual, and I still can't find the manual or priority modes)

I understand black and white photography very well having learn't a lot from my mum who is a good amateur, and can devlop and print in black and white. Colour I understand less and understand transparency better than print. I'd love to learn more and have access to a dark room.

I often get bogged down in the technology rather than the composition. I would love to learn to be a better photographer. I recon I could be quite good, maybe?

i would liek to say that the rayograph i own of rainys has a palce of honor in our kitchen and i see it maybe a dozen times a day and i still have not bored of ite elegant symetry . Rainy is v. v. v. good at waht she does.