The 7 Deadly Sins

[Eric Rose]

Check this blog posting out. It's about the 7 Deadly Sins of Emerging Pros.

http://photocynic.com/2011/06/13/the...emerging-pros/

[bsdunek]

That's a good checklist. I especially like No. 6 - I see SO MUCH of this. Makes me want some 7 Deadly Zins!

[mike c]

A lot of truth in that article . Worked as a wedding photographer 25 years ago and after 5 years stopped photographing them, not my cup of tea but learned a hell of a lot about myself and wedding photography in general that was completely unexpected , it was very enlightening and it is a Business .

Mike

[Klainmeister]

Wait wait wait......not everyone who gets a DSLR from their mother is a pro?

[Gerald C Koch]

I recently looked at a group of photographs made by a "professional" photographer. More than half were awful as they were shot in full sun at noontime. Very ugly shadows on the models face.

In a way this might fit under sin #2 but I think an 8th sin might be added, something like "I don't have to think, I have a modern expensive camera. All I have to do is set the correct program mode and everything is done for me."

[TheFlyingCamera]

It's that old adage - if you buy a Steinway, you own a Steinway. But if you buy a camera, you're a professional photographer.

[pbromaghin]

I can't imagine, not in a million years, trying to make a living with photography. I admire the hell out of you pros.

[Jeff Kubach]

I like that list!

Jeff

[Louis Nargi]

Very informative.

[benjiboy]

It's not just the ones that delude themselves they are "professionals" that get me, but the ones who labour under the misapprehension that they are "Artists"