Photography: more than just pointing and shooting

The job of a photographer is very simple on it's surface. To most people, photography is as simple as owning a camera and taking a picture. Thanks to technology, everyone can consider themselves a photographer. By today's standards, there are probably 2 million photographers on myspace what with their cool stylized highly contrasted, i'm looking pensive while holding the camera above my head in the bathroom. But photography is much more than that. It takes thought, planning, keen reflexes, a moment too soon, or too late and you miss the shot completely (see Lee Harvey Oswold murder, or the planting of a flag on iwo jima) and a very sharp eye for what makes a good picture (framing, lighting, subject, etc)

This write up done on Reuters about a sub-editor's project of playing photographer and the trials and tribulations she discovered.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, some guy pretends to be a blogger by blogging about people who pretend to be photographers.

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