Anyone can be a good photographer?

I would really like to be a fashion photographer


but i dont really have a style


im am 15 should i by now?


Like my pictures i wouldnt take really edgy ones more natural pretty oness likke but i dont really have a set style





Does this mean i cant make it : [?
Anyone can be a good photographer?
Anyone can take photographs. Just look at flickr and many other collections.





You are up against a few million other people. So how do you compare to the thousand youngsters in your school?
Anyone can be a good photographer?
no try and get into art school haha ud die those people are creative.
Reply:You asked, "can anyone be a good photographer with a great camera? Is there a natural skill to it...?"





The answer is no. Without knowing how to use it properly, and without knowing how to work around its limitation, then no.





Look at it this way. The good old days before word processor came out, people used typewriter to "write" (you may not have seen one seriously). The old saying went something like just because I have a typewriter, it doesn't mean I am going to be able to write a book. Same thing as having a great grand piano (a Steinway, for example)--it won't make me a concert pianist.





If you hand me a scalpel, will it make me a surgeon? (I'm a nurse though!)





A Camera is a tool. You're in control of it. If you don't know what you're doing because you don't take lessons in art / photography, etc., then it's a very expensive toy that is used for snapshots only.





I hope this is not going to dash your hope-but a realistic answer is actually needed.
Reply:This does not mean you cannot make it! You are only 15 years old. The best thing to do is look into studying photography after you're GCSE's.





Go to your careers tutor and tell them you are interested in fashion photography and they may be able to help you find a specific course. Or at least one that could help you on your way to becoming a fashion photographer.





Good luck,





:)
Reply:Should you have a style by now?


Nope. You're still young. You still have a lot to learn. You still have time to develop your style. I'm glad you've started thinking about it already though.





Does it mean you won't make it?


Absolutely not. Again, you're still young. You still have a lot to learn. You still have time to develop your style.





Can anyone be a good photographer with a great camera?


Again, the answer is no. You must have the skills to be a good photographer.





Is there natural skill to it?


For some people, the skill does come naturally. For others, you have to work hard for it.





You're good with Photoshop.


That's great. Having Photoshop skills will definately help you artistically enhance your photos. Don't depend on Photoshop to fix all your mistakes though. Get it right in the camera.





You think you have good taste.


Again, great... but the viewers must think you have good taste as well.





The most important thing to do right now is to PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!!! Carry your camera everywhere you go, take classes, join clubs, read books, look for good lighting and composition, and find good examples and try to recreate them. Good luck!
Reply:The camera doesn't make a good photographer, neither does a 'good' camera, in fact a 'good' camera without knowing how to use it could be worse than useless to you.





You haven't a style? cause you have, everybody has, but yours is still evolving, so is everybody else's, so is mine and I'm in my 60's. it hasn't been fully explored yet, exciting isn't it?





Everything that happens to you colours the way you see the world, the way you see the world determines what you view as a picture worth taking, other people will walk strait past.





Immerse yourself in the fashion world and eventually you will meet people in that same world, you'll find yourself in places where fashion happens, maybe just at school at first, then in college, then as a job, then as a ....... who knows?





Look at the work of well known masters of photography, heres a good place to start,





http://www.masters-of-photography.com/





ask what they were trying to say? why did they choose that subject? don't dismiss anything just because it's not your style, your style will change as you develop.





More important than all of this is to master the craft of photography, the act of actually taking a photograph under any conditions with whatever camera is to hand without having to think about it. This doesn't happen overnight, or even over months, but over years it does, but it needs a good foundation from which to grow, some basic knowledge and college is a good place to start. Surrounding yourself with other photographers will, apart from learning the 'mechanics' of photography put you in that world, good colleges have contacts all over the place and fashion may be one of them.





Have the thought, hold the thought and you will gravitate towards it, opportunities turn up, people who can help turn up. It won't happen overnight, you won't even know it's happening, but happen it will.





What you think today you become tomorrow, so be careful what you think. (Bagavad Gita)





Chris
Reply:absolutely anyone can be a good photographer, if you're 15 then you've still got lots of chances to learn different techniques and improve your photograph taking - im doing a level photography and its fantastic, you learn so so much.





edgy photos aren't neccessarily the best photos, sometimes the softer photos are more appreciative and natural to the eye, and somewhat more pleasing.





you will eventually find your style of shooting after practising and learning about photography in general. just make sure you have a decent camera; if you're serious about photography i would suggest buying a digital SLR where you focus it manually.





if there is anything else you want to know about learning more about photography/ techniques in general then dont hesitate to ask me :)
Reply:Too late - good photographers are identified by the time they are ten years of age