TeamSpeed wrote:
So the rest of the time you are an amateur? If I am a pro, I am always a pro and market myself as such. If I talk to a potential client and say that "I am a part time pro", I am not getting the business. When I have a contract with the Pacers for example, but their payment doesn't constitute a majority of my income, that doesn't make me less of a pro or a part-time pro.
Part-time and Pro are mutually exclusive perhaps, and that may have been what was meant. If that is the case, then why was it used in the context it was earlier? A pro that works part time is no less professional than a full time professional and both their opinions likely matter equally....Show more →
It depends on your definition of professional. Is someone who shoots landscapes every weekend and has a Smugmug Pro account but has only sold one print in the last 5 years a professional? How about someone shooting one $500 wedding a month while working a full time office job? Or do we reserve that title for someone supporting themselves exclusively through paid photography? I see "pro" as more of a continuum than a hard line, thus the terms "part time pro" or "semi-pro".
If anyone ever pays me for one of my crap photos, I'm telling everyone I know I'm now a pro!
Mike_5D wrote:
It depends on your definition of professional. Is someone who shoots landscapes every weekend and has a Smugmug Pro account but has only sold one print in the last 5 years a professional? How about someone shooting one $500 wedding a month while working a full time office job? Or do we reserve that title for someone supporting themselves exclusively through paid photography? I see "pro" as more of a continuum than a hard line, thus the terms "part time pro" or "semi-pro".
TeamSpeed wrote:
So the rest of the time you are an amateur?
No the rest of the time you are doing your other job. I meant it as a compliment actually. You do shoot professionally but AFAIK you don't get 100% or maybe even a majority of your income from it.
Didn't see this coming. Sometimes I say stuff and know it may cause issues but didn't see this coming
I value advice/opinions from those that can show results...whether they've every made a single cent from their photos or make millions doesn't matter to me.
But what I value even more is advice/opinions from people that have actually used the things they are trying to compare.
I see a lot of "talk" on here comparing different cameras and it really seems most people haven't even owned half the stuff they are trying to compare. But one thing is always for certain, whichever gear they own, always seems to win in their comparisons
after dragging my 7d2 around the world i would say it's built like a brick.
it has gotten me the pics i wanted and more. so i would take my chances and see how long it lasts, see
what an r7 has to offer and make a move.
