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Types of Photographers (Seinfeld Edition)

How about a little Friday fun?

The Hipster Doofus - he only shoots film, and then only with a Leica or Holga, but considering a vintage AE-1. Has a custom leather strap made from David Berkowitz's old mail bag. He needs to "get on that Internet".

The Delicate Genius - prone to spur of the moment ski trips, but is highly educated and knows her gear. Her Style is stuck in the past just like her D30, and don't dare cancel your shoot with less than 24 hours notice or you'll lose your sitting fee.

The Scofflaw - always sneaking into unauthorized areas he shouldn't be shooting in, he's looking for the perfect shot. Often seen in the company of a man with an eye patch. Carries a special Moby Dick version of the white SL1.

The Convert - converted to Canon "for the lenses" but still carries a D90 with his 5DIII. If he starts shooting with Sony, there will be no stopping him. Known for his interesting magazines he keeps in his green room. His wedding colleagues will smash your anti-Canonite teeth in if you make fun of him.

The Camera Virgin - she's held a camera before, but has never pressed the shutter. Dated a man whose friends held a contest to see who could stay away from their Canon cameras the longest, but ran away to begin shooting with Hasselblad.

The Shoot Nazi - shoots with a custom 1DX and his work is the best, but he shoots his way and if you even question his advice, he will throw you off the set and never work with you again. Last seen shooting for Vogue Argentina.

The Gymnast - shoots with a Lomo, but is considering Holga lenses for her 5D classic. Known for crazy contorted poses and planking shots. Once dated Ansel Adams, but broke up with him, saying that he might take photos for a living, but he, "is no photographer".

The Latvian - shoots with a 7D because it has the "look" you want in a camera. Cheats on his Canon CPS application (he's not really a full-time pro), and even writes "crib notes" on his hands to keep track of camera techniques. Sometimes combines video on his 70D and Velvia in his old Rebel G because it is the most sensual of all of the transparency films.

Joe Mayo - okay that just sounds made up

and a special one for someone we'll call Surapon:

The Architect - unlike his wanna-be counterpart, he's the real deal. He has nearly every piece of camera equipment ever made, but that's not enough. He modifies and rigs his equipment in creative and crazy ways and can carry more lenses and cameras than the Mandelbaums. It's "Go Time" when he straps up and takes epic selfies. When asked by airport security, he says, "It's called a T-Square."
 
mackguyver said:
How about a little Friday fun?

The Hipster Doofus - he only shoots film, and then only with a Leica or Holga, but considering a vintage AE-1. Has a custom leather strap made from David Berkowitz's old mail bag. He needs to "get on that Internet".

The Delicate Genius - prone to spur of the moment ski trips, but is highly educated and knows her gear. Her Style is stuck in the past just like her D30, and don't dare cancel your shoot with less than 24 hours notice or you'll lose your sitting fee.

The Scofflaw - always sneaking into unauthorized areas he shouldn't be shooting in, he's looking for the perfect shot. Often seen in the company of a man with an eye patch. Carries a special Moby Dick version of the white SL1.

The Convert - converted to Canon "for the lenses" but still carries a D90 with his 5DIII. If he starts shooting with Sony, there will be no stopping him. Known for his interesting magazines he keeps in his green room. His wedding colleagues will smash your anti-Canonite teeth in if you make fun of him.

The Camera Virgin - she's held a camera before, but has never pressed the shutter. Dated a man whose friends held a contest to see who could stay away from their Canon cameras the longest, but ran away to begin shooting with Hasselblad.

The Shoot Nazi - shoots with a custom 1DX and his work is the best, but he shoots his way and if you even question his advice, he will throw you off the set and never work with you again. Last seen shooting for Vogue Argentina.

The Gymnast - shoots with a Lomo, but is considering Holga lenses for her 5D classic. Known for crazy contorted poses and planking shots. Once dated Ansel Adams, but broke up with him, saying that he might take photos for a living, but he, "is no photographer".

The Latvian - shoots with a 7D because it has the "look" you want in a camera. Cheats on his Canon CPS application (he's not really a full-time pro), and even writes "crib notes" on his hands to keep track of camera techniques. Sometimes combines video on his 70D and Velvia in his old Rebel G because it is the most sensual of all of the transparency films.

Joe Mayo - okay that just sounds made up

and a special one for someone we'll call Surapon:

The Architect - unlike his wanna-be counterpart, he's the real deal. He has nearly every piece of camera equipment ever made, but that's not enough. He modifies and rigs his equipment in creative and crazy ways and can carry more lenses and cameras than the Mandelbaums. It's "Go Time" when he straps up and takes epic selfies. When asked by airport security, he says, "It's called a T-Square."


Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha---My dear Friend mackguyver---
You have Grab in to my heart this morning---Ha, Ha, Ha, I agree and Laugh with you, all Types, Special the last one " The Architect - unlike his wanna-be counterpart, he's the real deal. He has nearly every piece of camera equipment ever made, but that's not enough. He modifies and rigs his equipment in creative and crazy ways and can carry more lenses and cameras than the Mandelbaums. It's "Go Time" when he straps up and takes epic selfies. When asked by airport security, he says, "It's called a T-Square."


-------Ha, Ha, Ha. To day , You made my day, Plus, You, Dear Mackguyver, You are old engineer = Right ?, Who know T-Square----Not Many Young Architects and Young Engineers know this equipment, The Young one know only AUTOCAD----Ha, Ha, Ha.
Have a Happy holiday, Plus Smile and Laugh in our heart..
Surapon.

PS, I were dream to be Photographer since I am 7 years old, And My Daddy let me use his Rolliflex and Leica, But When I grown up, I know that My brain and My heart do not have Artistic ability, Just "Form follow Functions"---That why I go to school and Be Architect, Make Money/ Easy Money, and Beg my wife( my Vice President/ Book Keeper in the Company) to buy the Tons of Photography equipment for The Office Equipments---Yes, I get them in my ways---Ha, Ha, Ha, But, I must do 2-3 Wedding Photos per years, and Do the Photos for the county tourism department for booklet= A few US Dollars, Just for my CPA. and My Happyness, Who can call my self as " The Low PRO "-----Ha, Ha, Ha.---Ha, Ha, Ha.
 
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mackguyver said:
and a special one for someone we'll call Surapon:

The Architect - unlike his wanna-be counterpart, he's the real deal. He has nearly every piece of camera equipment ever made, but that's not enough. He modifies and rigs his equipment in creative and crazy ways and can carry more lenses and cameras than the Mandelbaums. It's "Go Time" when he straps up and takes epic selfies. When asked by airport security, he says, "It's called a T-Square."

I have a huge smile on my face as I read this :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you mackguyver and Surapon :)
 
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The snob pro: When he satisfies his curiosity whether someone in front of him is a pro or amateur and learns that he is an amateur he looks down on him even in front of the others. Latest seen shooting for Reuters, Greece.
 
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Don Haines said:
mackguyver said:
and a special one for someone we'll call Surapon:

The Architect - unlike his wanna-be counterpart, he's the real deal. He has nearly every piece of camera equipment ever made, but that's not enough. He modifies and rigs his equipment in creative and crazy ways and can carry more lenses and cameras than the Mandelbaums. It's "Go Time" when he straps up and takes epic selfies. When asked by airport security, he says, "It's called a T-Square."

I have a huge smile on my face as I read this :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you mackguyver and Surapon :)

THANKSSSSS, Dear Don.
Merry Christmas and Happy new year to your family and you, Too.
Surapon
 
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Don Haines said:
The iTographer. Shoots everything with an iPad or an iPhone (see this pixel, it's a bald eagle) Has the image posted on facebook before the DSLR user's camera finishes writing to the memory card.

+ 1 for me too. 95% of Photographers at this time = I-Tographers, Most of them Get Better Photos than me, and faster too. Ha, Ha, Ha.
Surapon
 
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Thanks for the nice comments and I'm glad I made a couple of you laugh. If you're a Seinfeld fan, you'll get all the jokes I wove into each type...

I had to pick on Surapon given his new celebrity status, and the fact that well, he really is an architect! It must be tough to have your wife approving your purchases (mine would have divorced me if she knew how much I spent ;)) Also, are you telling me that there's no T-square tool in AutoCAD :o

I like the snob pro and iTographer comments. I'm an Androitographer myself - and I only snob pros, not amateurs ;)

Happy New Year to all of you as well!

P.S. maybe I should pick on one more CR member - and watch out, I might post more later:

The Neuro - he knows so much about photography, Google calls him for information. He uses the Zeiss glass in his lab to bend light and double the number of hours in the day allowing him to reply to every CR post, and posts on many other forums. His test charts cost more than our cars, and his equipment is so well calibrated that he has to blame molecules in the air for soft images. His only weakness is the dollar to yen exchange rate, which has prevented him from acquiring every Canon lens.
 
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mackguyver said:
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Happy New Year to all of you as well!

P.S. maybe I should pick on one more CR member - and watch out, I might post more later:

The Neuro - he knows so much about photography, Google calls him for information. He uses the Zeiss glass in his lab to bend light and double the number of hours in the day allowing him to reply to every CR post, and posts on many other forums. His test charts cost more than our cars, and his equipment is so well calibrated that he has to blame molecules in the air for soft images. His only weakness is the dollar to yen exchange rate, which has prevented him from acquiring every Canon lens.


This made me laugh :D :D Thanks for that!
Happy new year!
 
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Don Haines said:
mackguyver said:
and a special one for someone we'll call Surapon:

The Architect - unlike his wanna-be counterpart, he's the real deal. He has nearly every piece of camera equipment ever made, but that's not enough. He modifies and rigs his equipment in creative and crazy ways and can carry more lenses and cameras than the Mandelbaums. It's "Go Time" when he straps up and takes epic selfies. When asked by airport security, he says, "It's called a T-Square."

I have a huge smile on my face as I read this :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you mackguyver and Surapon :)

Yea, that really made my morning. Thanks! :)
 
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JPAZ said:
Nice thread.

Question for Surapon. I do remember T-squares. How many of use used slide-rules?

I am at a stage where the long-term memory is still intact. The rest, well..

Happy Holidays.

Ha, Ha, Ha---Dear JPAZ---Nice to meet Old Engineer like you, who know and use Slide-rules, Yes, I use to have K&E slide-rules, Made in Germany---That is the Best of the Best, Which have The Bamboo wood as the core and Hard Plastic Laminated/ Cover--Yes, Roterling- Koh-I-Nor Rapidograph= Drafting Pen too---Wow, Old timer like us.
Happy Holiday to you too, Dear JPAZ.
Surapon
 
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Humorous, but I don't really see the connection as to which Seinfeld characters match up to the ones listed.

Sorry in advance if I take this too seriously or diverge from where the OP originally wanted this thread to go!!

For me personally, my life is most like George on Seinfeld! But my photography isn't...and doesn't really apply much to Seinfeld. In that world, everything is funny and relatable. In the real world you kind of have to make life funny and see the humor in everything yourself, because life overall, is anything but funny. If you disagree, you haven't watched a family member die slowly yet...

Most people don't have a "good" sense of humor, or even think the show 'Seinfeld' was funny...or even ever watched it. Part of this is generational, and much of it is regional, but most of it is gender related. Women usually watch tv shows about women nowadays, for example. If Seinfeld was a single woman about town who always dished about sex-capades, fashion, drinking, clubbing, travel, and food with her girlfriends, then they would watch. Since it wasn't "Sex and the City", they weren't interested. Was "sex and the city" funny? To most women it was. Is "Family Guy" funny? I used to not like it, but have come to appreciate it more. Why do I mention it? Because 'Family Guy' is the true "guy humor" equivalent to "sex and the city", where "Seinfeld", was more of a timeless classic that will (and is even now) compared to other TV classics such as "I Love Lucy", etc. "Seinfeld" is more comparable to the "Simpsons"...it had sophistication and didn't always stoop to the lowest common denominator such as fart jokes or extreme violence such as chopping people's heads off, etc. But it's the cruelty in the humor aspect of 'Family Guy' that makes it the equivalent of 'sex and the city'. In particular, look how Meg is treated...
 
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mackguyver said:
The Neuro - he knows so much about photography, Google calls him for information. He uses the Zeiss glass in his lab to bend light and double the number of hours in the day allowing him to reply to every CR post, and posts on many other forums. His test charts cost more than our cars, and his equipment is so well calibrated that he has to blame molecules in the air for soft images. His only weakness is the dollar to yen exchange rate, which has prevented him from acquiring every Canon lens.

:) This made me laugh!

Merry Christmas to all of you!
 
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Don Haines said:
JPAZ said:
Nice thread.

Question for Surapon. I do remember T-squares. How many of use used slide-rules?

I am at a stage where the long-term memory is still intact. The rest, well..

Happy Holidays.
Still have my slide rule....

I used to have a slide rule as a kid, but never learned how to use it :) I did start drafting with pencils though, then AutoCAD. Now I draw everything I need to in Visio, but I'm not making architectural drawings.
 
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Slide rules - Ha! In my day we used an abacus and had to walk to school uphill, both ways.

CarlTN said:
Humorous, but I don't really see the connection as to which Seinfeld characters match up to the ones listed.

Sorry in advance if I take this too seriously or diverge from where the OP originally wanted this thread to go!!

For me personally, my life is most like George on Seinfeld! But my photography isn't...and doesn't really apply much to Seinfeld. In that world, everything is funny and relatable. In the real world you kind of have to make life funny and see the humor in everything yourself, because life overall, is anything but funny. If you disagree, you haven't watched a family member die slowly yet...

Most people don't have a "good" sense of humor, or even think the show 'Seinfeld' was funny...or even ever watched it. Part of this is generational, and much of it is regional, but most of it is gender related. Women usually watch tv shows about women nowadays, for example. If Seinfeld was a single woman about town who always dished about sex-capades, fashion, drinking, clubbing, travel, and food with her girlfriends, then they would watch. Since it wasn't "Sex and the City", they weren't interested. Was "sex and the city" funny? To most women it was. Is "Family Guy" funny? I used to not like it, but have come to appreciate it more. Why do I mention it? Because 'Family Guy' is the true "guy humor" equivalent to "sex and the city", where "Seinfeld", was more of a timeless classic that will (and is even now) compared to other TV classics such as "I Love Lucy", etc. "Seinfeld" is more comparable to the "Simpsons"...it had sophistication and didn't always stoop to the lowest common denominator such as fart jokes or extreme violence such as chopping people's heads off, etc. But it's the cruelty in the humor aspect of 'Family Guy' that makes it the equivalent of 'sex and the city'. In particular, look how Meg is treated...
Carl, no apology necessary - this isn't a serious topic, so divergence is interesting, not troublesome. I could explain all of the Seinfeld references but it might take a while to write it all out. If you got some of them, or found any humor in the post, then I was successful. I've seen each Seinfeld episode way too many times, so it was easy to load them with all of the craziness of the show, which I agree is more timeless than most comedies.

And yes, life is hard, and humor is necessary. I try to laugh at myself often and in that spirit with lots more Seinfeld references:

The Comedian - his photos aren't funny, but he thinks he is - always offering a witty or sarcastic remark. Like his fictional counterpart's double purchase of a Cadillac, likes to buy (Canon) things twice at great expense. He has no interest in sharing his commercial work, and prefers to work alone to avoid Ovaltine-obssessed mentees riding his coattails. Cashiers don't respect what he does, and his two photo books have been flagged by Brentano's bookstore. He shoots with a (gripped ;D) 5DIII because he can't "afford"a 1DX despite having spent enough on Rebels, XXDs, 7Ds, to buy 3 of them. A long-term sufferer of G.A.S., he recently had to seek treatment for his latest relapse, but unlike Kramer, he prefers doctors to veterinarians even if they are superior because they "gotta be able to cure a lizard, a chicken, a pig, a frog, all on the same day." He recently celebrated Festivus but realized that St. Nick doesn't put new Canon gear under aluminum poles, even without distracting tinsel. Finally, he has been injured for several months, but the other day, he worked out with a dumbbell and now he feels vigorous!
 
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