From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Warming up

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Warming up

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I don't know who said it, but there's a line about if you buy a camera, you're a photographer. If you buy a violin, you own a violin. It's a strange thing about photography these days, everybody is a photographer, everyone's got a camera. And that's great. It's been a real, digital has been a real democratizing thing. That said you need to think about what does that mean. I am a photographer. You might need to think about that a lot when you getting ready to go out shooting. Personally, I notice myself, that a lot of times I'll be sitting at home working, maybe even writing a book about photography, and I'll look out the window and see that the light is just turned nice and I'll think, oh I need to go take some pictures. And I'll grab my camera and I'll run outside. And suddenly think I'm a photographer and, and now I'm taking pictures when I've spent all day long sitting in a chair deep in my head thinking about words. You can't…

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