"Other photographers?"

If anything I find walking around with a dslr makes for a good conversation piece.

When I was in Yosemite I got chatting to a couple of nice Americans, purely because we both had camera equipment, although his was about 5 times the price of mine :)

Chatted for about 20 mins, showing each other shots etc. :)
 
King4aDay said:
The following traits are all positively correlated amongst photographers:

Age Probably the oldest here; size of lens Can't carry a large one any more; size of beard Kept neatly trimmed; amount of camo gear worn Ex-army goretex is cheap and waterproof; being a grumpy ******** Guilty; inability to use Photoshop Learning new things is difficult at my age.
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Four out of six ain't good....
 
Never even bumped into another tog when out taking my photos, but then again I'm usually either on top of a mountain or out at the dead of night. Only got a D40 and kit lens as well, so lens envy doesn't even begin to describe it when I see other people at zoos and stuff:p
 
Bubo said:
I had a supposed professional photographer get narky with me a while back. It was the Lincolnshire horse trials, not exactly Burghley, there was hardly anyone there, me and the girlffriend both had our cameras and were taking pics as you do, purely for our own enjoyment. Then this woman comes up to us and starts asking us what we are doing. At first we thought she was being friendly, but then she starts asking us who we are and a really snide way. We start getting a bit puzzled what she is going on about then she states that she is the course photographer and has paid for the right to take official course photos and flatly acuses us of muscling in on her terriroty. She says just because we have "decent" cameras we must be freelancers out to deprive her of business. Even though I assure her it is just a hobby for us she then proceeds to make sure she stands in my line of shot whenever a horse comes past, until we have to move on. It was the way she appeared friendly at first which really hacked me off. It completely spoiled my girlfriends day too as from that point she didn't take a single photograph thinking this woman would somehow set the cops on us or something. Just goes to show photography is not immune to the presence of <rude word>
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Should have reported her to the course owners. Would be interesting how long she held on to her spot there once they discover she's mouthing off at the visitors. The arrogance some togs start to show to others as soon as they have a few kilos of white-painted glass hanging from their shoulders are quite pathetic really - and you just know that half of them have bought expensive gear to try and blind themselves to their lack of ability.
 
neverender said:
Should have reported her to the course owners. Would be interesting how long she held on to her spot there once they discover she's mouthing off at the visitors. The arrogance some togs start to show to others as soon as they have a few kilos of white-painted glass hanging from their shoulders are quite pathetic really - and you just know that half of them have bought expensive gear to try and blind themselves to their lack of ability.
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What her operation seemed to be was to sell the riders and their family pictures of themselves on that day which presumably they had to order from her website. I had a look at it when I got home, the pictures were pretty average to say the least, about 1 in 10 were what I would call good shots. She is of course entitled to pay for the right to do official photographs of the event, but she shouldn't have automatically assumed anyone with a camera slightly better than a P&S was there to specifically gazump her.
 
Bubo said:
What her operation seemed to be was to sell the riders and their family pictures of themselves on that day which presumably they had to order from her website. I had a look at it when I got home, the pictures were pretty average to say the least, about 1 in 10 were what I would call good shots. She is of course entitled to pay for the right to do official photographs of the event, but she shouldn't have automatically assumed anyone with a camera slightly better than a P&S was there to specifically gazump her.
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Don't get me started on horse photography/photographers!!

My other half used to ride one day events all over the country, and of course I was the resident groom/photographer/somebody to be shouted at/general dogsbody!!

The amount of arsey 'official' photographers who tried to stop me taking pictures of my girlfriend (now wife!) riding was unreal. I know they are only trying to protect their interests, but it seems some of them seriously thought I shouldn't photograph her, and buy theirs instead... :( I raised it with several of the riding clubs, and all of them said although they allow the 'official' photographer, there was nothing in the contracts about stopping people taking their own.

I did sometimes buy their products though, as I couldn't be everywhere, and sometimes they captured her 'having a moment' which were quite good! :)

I once strapped a helmet cam to her riding hat once, that was quite entertaining, but the 'official video bloke' complained about that as well!
 
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I'm always happy to chat to other togs, random snappers in the crowd, fans and players at football games (even let one of the players borrow my spare camera for half a game once :p) but I have noticed that 9 times out of 10 other "official" togs seem to hide away and not want to talk to anyone.
 
AHarvey said:
If anything I find walking around with a dslr makes for a good conversation piece.

When I was in Yosemite I got chatting to a couple of nice Americans, purely because we both had camera equipment, although his was about 5 times the price of mine :)

Chatted for about 20 mins, showing each other shots etc. :)
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Americans are very friendly like that. Whenever I'm in Florida I end up chatting to other photographers. They are always more than willing to share tips etc too.
 
I've found that I've rarely had issues with other photographers, apart from two in particular... one them is just a general plank, so its not a competition thing.
The other was my uncle at a relatives wedding.
I was the 'official' photographer, my uncle was going to take some, and a woman who's just breaking into photography (friend of the bride) had asked if I'd mind her taking some shots as practice and for her portfolio.
Since I'm no longer trying to make money from it, I was more than happy to oblige, helped her setup shots, gave her space to compose her own, all that sort of thing.
I happened to overhear my uncle say to her "I'll show you how a real photographer does it" just before finding he'd left his battery in the hotel.
I'm sorry to say I laughed... as did the rest of the family. A lot.
 
Personally never had real issues with fellow photographers. When i first started "doing photography" i was in Yellowstone National Park, everyone we met round there was very friendly and chatty and even let me look through their big L lenses at wildlife etc.

Back in the UK i was out at a nature reserve last weekend and was in a bird hide with other photographers i had never met before and ended up chatting and getting on well with all of them.

Worst situation i have had really is just being out with camera and seeing someone else with similar high end kit and them not really taking the time of day to acknowledge me or say hi! ... obviously not everyone would want to!

Nick
 
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