The stages of a photographer

Someone sent this to me and I thought it was hilarious.

http://robertbenson.co​m …rapher-graph-1024x858.png

Looks like he's BTDT! Especially the HDR Hole!

that is pretty funny

Looks like more than a quick laugh. I think I am stuck in the CS5 now has HDR hole while admiring all my new equipment.

That is depressing.

I clicked this thread guessing that it would be that chart.

I linked it in the "Everyone's a pro these days" thread a week or two ago.

Funny & accurate none-the-less

This is great! LOL!!!

I'm at the "I'm trying to photograph flakey models on Model Mayhem" stage... *sign*

I have the best camera I've owned thus far (40D) but my skill level is currently "N/A".

I just saw that graph on tumbler, and I was about to post it here, but I did a quick search and found that it was already posted. Thanks, TooManyHobbies!

I think, though, that the HDR hole should drop down below the X axis!

Rad

I've seen this before but I still don't understand the /p/ and the crash in the self confidence axis...?

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #11018078
I've seen this before but I still don't understand the /p/ and the crash in the self confidence axis...?

I am guessing it was originally a 4chan graphic. /p/ is their photography sharing forum. You can find some amazingly good work there. So, the ascending dotted line of self confidence I took to mean someone who never saw/compared themselves to some of the work on /p/, and the crash in self confidence was the result of seeing and comparing themselves to /p/.

Just a guess, but it made sense to me.

Rad


(Word of warning, 4chan is completely unmoderated and unregulated. If you decided to visit, there is some unbelievably NSFW stuff. Make sure the bosses and kids are no where near over your shoulder!)

Thanks Rad .. Thank makes total sense.

I'm just beginning to wake up to the fact that I suck as a photographer ... got up on the right side of the bed this morning and facing reality ...

Yeah, that's the only bit that I don't follow either.

Those are stages of self-taught internet photographers. Commercial photographers go through different stages. They start with view cameras and tripods and composition and everybody at school tells them they suck. Then they get jobs in studios working on ad campaigns where all the photographers that hire them tell them they suck. Then they start their own business and realize that bad photography sells better than good photography so they start to suck on purpose just to make a living. Then they start to hate cameras and leave them at home on vacations. The final stage is the realization that Rick Sanchez was right about the media.

Too funny GV ...!