The text reads, “I am a professional Photographer, and I have no idea what f-stops, ISO, or that other crap is.”
OK, maybe they’re not advertising on Craigslist… but it’s highly likely!
How can you be a professional photographer and not know what an f-stop is? OK, granted, I once met a woman at a photo workshop who exclaimed that she wouldn’t know an “f-stop from a truckstop”, yet she still took nice pictures. However, she would never have called herself a professional with that type of gaping hole in her knowledge banks.
This came courtesy of a post on the PDN Forums, from someone who found this on PostSecrets, a place where people anonymously reveal secrets about themselves by using made up postcards. There’s some really juicy stuff there. Now, I don’t feel too bad about re-posting this picture. If whoever wrote this and has a problem with this, they’re welcome to come out of the woodwork, stand-up, and identify your ‘professional’ self. I won’t be holding my breath.
I know for a fact that sometimes people make up secrets to post. My guess is that this is one of those times. I mean, honestly. That handwriting kinda looks like mine…but I would never shoot a Nikon 🙂
Looks like a jokie post to me too, but maybe the end times are really here, and even ignorant twits are making a living in photography while guys who’ve memorized the entire D300 manual and know how to implement every single function can’t sell a $.25 photo on a microstock site. 🙂
That’s really pretty funny. It’s always amazing to me how many people always try to say “You don’t need the fundamentals, let me take your money, and I’ll prove that those people that practice a craft for years were just wasting their time.” Even more amazing is that people are so gullible that they fall for it. We really are pretty lazy creatures.