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Ken Rockwell的"摄影师的七级分类" -- 一个精神指南(为讽刺而作)
(I'm using the Western convention of "he" to refer to both genders)
Artist: Top Level 7 (equivalent to "Heaven" in Christian mythology)
This is the highest level.
An artist fixes his imagination in a tangible form called a photograph.He captures the spirit of place or person, real or imagined, in thisphotograph and the viewer responds to this.
An artist is a complete master of his tools. When creating art anartist transcends common existence as his spirit flies up to meet thatwhich he is capturing. He may practice and learn his tools while he isnot creating, however when creating the camera becomes an extension ofhis mind. No conscious thought is expended on the technical issues withwhich he is a virtuoso while creating photographs.
To make a musical analogy, a musician may woodshed his scales, but whenhe's jamming he's not even thinking about fingerings. He's lost in thepassion of the moment.
Just like professional surfers who have a dozen boards or proguitarists who have 23 axes, an artist may have a slew of cameras, eachfor a different purpose.
Likewise, other artists may only have one camera, or none at all. It just doesn't matter.
Artists sometimes dress funny and tend to stay up late. They usuallyprefer to photograph attractive young women and are proud of it.
No one ever sees their work since they have crummy ability to promotethemselves, and sadly, usually don't even appreciate their ownexcellent work. Those that do drop down to Whore, which sadly andparadoxically means you will never see the work of a true artist unlessyou know one personally. Good artists are usually too embarrassed toshow their work to anyone unless you are intimate with them, sincetheir work is their soul.
Artists use any sort of camera, including pinholes and disposables, or8 x 10s. They use whatever instrument they need to create what theywant.
Whore: Level 6
A whore is an artist who sells his soul by accepting money or drugs for his art.
By lowering himself to this level his vision is compromised.
Why? Because when one depends on selling one's soul to pay for one'sfood and pad one does not screw with the program, which means that onedoes not try new styles.
If a whore's work pays his bills after years of trying, it's unlikelyany whore will be open to trying new styles while he still needs thedough.
Artists with representation (meaning they are represented by a galleryor an artists' representatives just as pimps do in the sex trade) maylose that representation if they change their style.
Therefore, art for sale from one person rarely gets better or different.
The style that sells is all a whore's johns and pimps (representatives)want to see. See Barnbaum's book on artistry. It is extraordinarilydifficult for a successful whore to change styles once one has beenaccepted.
More about the whore class at level 10 here.
Amateur: Level 5
People who earn less than half of their income from photography areamateurs. This has nothing to do with the quality of their photography.
This person loves to create photographs. Good amateurs of pure spiritcan transcend the other levels directly to being an artist.
People who shoot weddings and etc. on weekends as a side line fromtheir day jobs are still amateurs; they just charge for their photos.And as you read here they may also charge a lot for their snaps.
Amateurs who think that better cameras will improve their photos are atrisk of descending to the lowest level of equipment measurbator. Toomany amateurs have been misled by camera makers into thinking that theyneed good cameras for good images. This thought is poison to creatingart.
Amateurs who lose themselves in creating great images are set for a path of enlightenment.
Being an amateur is a good thing; from this level one can rise to the level of artist rather easily.
Amateurs almost always shoot Canon SLRs.
Snapshooter: Level 4
This is my mom and most people. These people want memories, as opposed to photographs or cameras.
Snapshooters who are graphic artists or otherwise visually literatepeople often make fantastic images that impress everyone. Thesesnapshooters are artists and don't even realize it. They usually dressbetter than the artists who think they really are artists.
Believe it: it's the photographer who makes an image, not a camera.
Snapshooters use point-and-shoot and disposable cameras, which give thesame excellent results as the Leicas, Nikons, Canons and Contaxes usedby everyone else.
Professional: Level 3
A professional photographer is a person who earns his entire living (100%) from the sale of photographs.
Professionals do not create art for a living; they create images forcommerce. They usually have some familiarity with the tools and can getout decent images, however they may or may not be able to captureimagination.
Of course professionals may create great images, but that's on their own time.
Professionals spend very little time worrying about cameras, exceptwhen they need to get them repaired. They spend most of their timelooking for work and pissing about how all the other photographers intown are dropping their prices.
Professionals spend more on film and lab fees each month than they spend on camera gear in a year.
There are no professional nature photographers. They all either have day jobs or make their wives support them.
Professionals shoot Nikon SLRs, Mamiya medium format and Calumet 4x5"cameras. They cannot afford gear as good as most serious amateurs.
Unless you are a commercial photography buyer or know one as a friendyou have not heard of professional photographers. The ones you may haveseen in camera ads proclaiming that they use this or that camera arejust spokesmodels.
Professionals don't have websites and don't put out technical newsletters. Those people are usually amateurs.
Rich Amateur: Level 2
These are amateurs who, by having too much money, buy lots of equipmentwhich can fetter their freedom of expression. They are mostly men, andmany are old or retired.
Rich amateurs shoot Leicas, Contaxes, Alpas, Hasselblads and Linhof4x5s. These are great cameras, but the results are the same as theZenits, Pentaxes, Bronicas and Tachiharas.
Today they mostly shoot Canon 1Ds-Mk IIs, 5Ds or Nikon D2X.
These are the same idiots who bought the first 2.7 Megapixel digitalSLRs designed for newspapers like the Nikon D1 back in 2000 justbecause they cost $5,000. They gave technically poorer results than thefilm cameras used by snapshooters. All because it's expensive doesn'tmake it good.
Bad rich amateurs think fuzzy B/W images of poor people are art.
Some rich amateurs fall into the bottom spiritual level easily becausethey worry too much about equipment, others go straight on to creategreat art since they don't have any worries about equipment since theythink they own the best. Oddly, few rich amateurs produce ordinarywork. It either rules or sucks.
Equipment Measurbator: Bottom Level 1 (equivalent to "Hell" in Christian mythology)
These men (and they are all men) have no interest in art or photographybecause they have no souls. Lacking souls they cannot expressimagination or feeling, which is why their images, if they ever botherto make any, suck.
These folks have analysis paralysis and never accomplish anything.
Does poring over a microscope analyzing test images have anything to dowith photographing a Joshua tree at dawn? Of course not. Even worse,time wasted concentrating on tests is time not spent learning usefulaspects of photography and certainly time that could have been betterspent actually photographing. Test just enough to know what your gearcan do, and then get on with real photography.
They are interested solely in equipment for its own sake. They willtalk your ear off for hours if you let them, but as soon as you ask tosee their portfolio their bravado scurries away, or they think you wantto see their cameras or stocks. You can read why cameras simply don'tmatter here.
Most seem to come from technical avocations, like engineering,computers and sciences. These people worry so much about trying to putnumerical ratings on things that they are completely oblivious to thefact that cameras or test charts have nothing to do with the spirit ofan image. Because they worry so much about measuring camera performancewe have dubbed them "Measurbators." Unfortunately, many of them wanderinto KenRockwell.com looking for information on camera performance.
Many of them also play with audio equipment, computers or automobiles.They enjoy these toys just like their cameras for their own sake, butrarely if ever actually use them for the intended purposes.
Younger ones play video games or engage in chat rooms and web surfing.Older ones join "camera" clubs. (You should join photography clubs, butnever camera clubs or any clubs that try to score art, since art isentirely subjective and cannot be scored numerically.) Likewise, thesepeople never create anything notable with any of this other geareither, but they sure get excited by just having, getting or talking toyou about it.
The one type of gear these people ignore is the only type of gear that actually helps: lighting.
Someone with a decent portfolio is not an equipment measurbator.Someone with more cameras than decent photos just may be. People withwebsites teeming with technical articles but few interestingphotographs probably are.
Do not under any circumstances deal with these people, talk to them,read their websites or especially ask them for photography advice. Tothe innocent they seem like founts of knowledge, however their sick,lifeless souls would love to drag you into their own personal Hells andhave your spirit forever mired in worrying about how sharp your lensis. If you start worrying about this and you'll never photographanything again except brick walls and test charts.
These people are easy to identify. If you've read this far you'veprobably seen their websites. They always have lots of info aboutequipment, but very few real photographs. Beware of any informationfrom any website not loaded with photography you admire.
Other people have other words for these people. This article here adds some more perspective.
I had to pull most of the photos of equipment off my site because thesepeople were spending more time looking at my equipment than my art! Thebandwidth for which I pay was being eaten up by these idiots looking atmy lenses, instead of looking at the photos in my gallery which is thewhole point of this site. That's why all the stupid pages like this oneare in yellow, so that their eyes hurt too much to waste too much timeon the nuts and bolts.
Most people who waste my time e-mailing me with technical and equipmentquestions through this site unfortunately belong to this unenlightenedbottom group. Almost anyone who actually worries about the level theyoccupy belong to the bottom. Many of these folks stalk the Internet,and spend hours getting off "contributing" to technical websites andphotography chat rooms like Photo.net, www.dpreview.comand photocritique.net instead of making photos. The guys here aren'ttoo bad, and most of the Leica people here are just equipmentcollectors.
Online Expert or Armchair Photographer: Level 0 (these guys don't take pictures so they aren't a level of photographer.)
This level never existed before the internet, because cameras werenever as exciting as sports cars or missiles for men to research.
This became terrifyingly apparent one day when I got an email fromsomeone who didn't think an example I posted of a sharp lens was sharp.I was confused, since it was exceptionally sharp, which is why I postedit. When I asked this reader "not sharp compared to what?," he repliedthat it wasn't as sharp as a different example of a different lens hesaw posted on some other website.
Holy Crap! This was a guy who doesn't even own a camera! He spends histime researching them and spreading his irrelevant opinions all overthe Internet!
The Internet is ablaze with these guys. Forums and chat rooms areloaded with them. Photographers don't have the time for forums. We havemore photography to do than time to do it. See The Two Kinds ofPhotographers.
Photography was never cool enough before digital to attract men'sattention for no particular reason. Personally, the muzzle velocity ofa Barrett 50-calibre sniper rifle is far more interesting to me thanthe MTF of a digital camera I'll never use. If I worked in an officeand could waste my employer's time researching personal hobbies on theInternet, I'd rather look at pornography than research other people'scameras.
This level has existed in the automotive marketspace forever, withyoung boys learning every possible performance specification ofCorvettes and Ferraris. We boys start this more than 10 years before wecan get a driver's license, much less be able to buy our own Ferraris.
Boys love to learn about cars, guns, motorcycles and anythingtechnical. I know I sure do. We men never grow out of wanting to knoweverything about everything, and telling you so.
Just because any car nut can tell you every possible performancespecification of a Ferrari doesn't mean he can drive. Most of thesepeople live in places where they've never even seen a Ferrari, muchless ever owned one themselves.
Today with digital photography, we now have the same lookie-loosresearching digital camera specs just for the bizarre fun of it. Ignorethem. They love to talk and research, but aren't photographers.
下面附上中文版，因为翻译不完整，所以仅供参考...
Ken Rockwell的"摄影师的七级分类" www.KenRockwell.com
个人以为, 这可算是妙作. 只是翻译时间有限, 过于生硬; 另外用词尖刻了一点 --- 还请海涵.
Ken Rockwell的"摄影师的七级分类" -- 一个精神指南(为讽刺而作)
一. 艺术家: 最高等级(相当于基督神话中的"天堂")
这是最高等级.
一个艺术家用一种叫照片的确实的形式把他的想象固定下来. 在这照片里他捕获事物的灵魂, 无论是真实的或是想象的, 而观众则对此作出反应.
一个艺术家是使用他的工具的大师. 在艺术创作中, 当他的灵魂飞迎他正捕获的东西时, 一个艺术家超越了通常意义下的存在. 当他不创新时他可能学习使用他的工具. 但在创新时相机成为他的头脑的一个延伸, 在他可称为能手的技术方面他不作有意识的思考.
作一个与音乐的类比: 一个音乐家可能会练习他的音阶, 但当他演奏时他甚至不会想到他的手指 -- 他遗失在那一刻的激情中.
正如一个专业冲浪者拥有一打的浪板, 或者一个吉它师有二十三把斧子, 一个艺术家可能会有很多相机, 每一个有不同的用途.
类似地, 别的艺术家可能只有一个相机, 或者根本没有. 这无关紧要.
艺术家们有的时候穿着好笑, 而且容易呆到很晚才睡.
没有人见过他们的作品, 因为他们在提升自己的头衔方面十分笨拙. 那些善于做这个的把自己降级为灵魂出卖者. 不幸的是, 这意味着除非你认识一个真正的艺术家落你不可能见到他们的作品. 好的艺术家们通常都觉得把作品展示给别人看是一件十分尴尬的事情, 除非你和他们十分接近, 因为作品是他们的灵魂.
艺术家们用各种相机, 包括针孔的, 一次性的, 或者8x10的. 他们用任何所需的器材去创出他们所要的.
二. 灵魂出卖者: 第六级
一个灵魂出卖者是一个以灵魂换取金钱或毒品的艺术家.
一个艺术家若将自己降到这个等级, 他的眼光可能已经打了折扣.
为什么? 因为他靠出卖自己的灵魂买所需的食物, 他压低自己的声音以求不违悖这一体系, 这意味着他不可能尝试新的风格.
如果一个灵魂出卖者多年来以他的工作付他的帐单, 那么只要他还需要面包他就不可能尝试新的风格.
一个有代理的艺术家(画廊或其它代理;如同拉皮条的)如果改变他的风格, 他就可能失去他的代理.
因此, 一个人出售的艺术从来不会有所提高或改变.
一个有销路的风格就是拉皮条的想要看到的风格. 看看Barnbaum的关于艺术性的书. 对于一个成功的灵魂出卖者来说, 要改变已被接受的风格万分困难.
三. 业余爱好者: 第五级
这个人从摄影获得的收入低于总收入的一半． 这和他们摄影的质量没有关系．
这个人喜爱拍照．一个拥有纯洁灵魂的好的业余爱好者可能超越其它等级而成为一个艺术家．
一个在周末拍婚纱以补充日常工作收入的人依旧是一个业余爱好者；他们只是为他们的照片收费．
一个业余爱好者若认为好的相机会提高他的作品，他就会冒着被降级为最低级的器材测量员的危险．太多的业余爱好者被相机生产商误导，以至于相信他们需要好的相机来拍出好的图片．这种想法毒杀创造艺术．
一个业余爱好者若在创造不朽图片的努力中释放自己，他就走上了一条领悟的路．
作为一个业余爱好者是一件好事：从这一等级可以比较容易地成为艺术家．
业余爱好者们几乎总是用佳能单反．
四．拍快照的：第四级
我的妈妈和大部分人属于这一级．相对于照片或相机，他们更注重记忆．
那些是图形艺术家的或者善于看的快照者常常拍出非同寻常的照片．这些照片给任何一个人留下深刻的印象．这些快照者是艺术家，而他们并不了解这一点．他们通常穿得比自认为艺术家的艺术家们好．
相信这一点：拍出照片的是摄影师，不是相机．
快照者用傻瓜机或一次性相机拍出别人用莱卡，尼康，佳能和康泰克斯所拍出的效果．
五．专业摄影师：第三级
一个专业摄影师是一个从摄影赚取所有生活费的人．
一个专业摄影师不为生存而创造艺术，而为商业而制造图片．他们通常比较熟悉工具，能做出不错的图片，但是捕获想象不一定是他们所能做的．
当然专业摄影师在他们自己的时间里可以作出伟大的图片．
专业摄影师很少担心相机，除非当他们需要修理的时候．他们几乎用所有的时间找活干，或者抱怨城里的其他摄影师又在降价了．
专业摄影师每个月在胶卷和冲扩上花的钱比他们每年在器材上化的钱还多．
没有专业自然摄影师．他们要么白天有工作，或者由妻子供养．
专业摄影师用尼康单反，玛米亚中幅，和Calumet 4x5．他们买不起大部分严肃的业余爱好者所用的器材．
业余爱好者没有网站．
六．富有的业余爱好者：第二级
这些业余爱好者们太有钱. 他们买了很多器材, 而这些东西又禁锢了他们表达的自由. 这些人通常是男性, 其中很多是老年或退休的.
这些富有的业余爱好者们用Leica, Contax, Alpas, Hasselblad, 和Linhof4x5.蔼这些都是很好的相机,均等但是他们获得的结果和用Zenit, Pentax, Bronica和Tachihara拍的一样.
稍微穷一点的用Niokn, 甚至Canon.
最近这些白痴们开始用为报社设计的单反, 比如Canon EOS-1D 和 Nikon D1x. 而这些相机的质量比拍快照的所用的还差. 最愚蠢的那些则等待要价$7000的Contax N 数字相机. 这种相机比Nikon和Canon的数字单反还不如. 而这些人还是只能拍出比用便宜的胶片单反还差的照片.
糟糕的富有业余爱好者们则把模糊的黑白穷人照当成是艺术.
一些富有业余爱好者们很容易地堕落到最低的精神等级, 因为他们太担心他们的器材. 而别的则直接进入到创造伟大艺术的殿堂, 因为他们相信他们所拥有的器材是最好的,从而没有那些担心. 奇怪的是, 很少有富有业余爱好者拍出一般的照片: 他们不是成功便是失败.
七. 器材测量意淫者: 最低级
这些男性(他们的确都是男的)对于艺术和摄影没有兴趣, 因为他们没有灵魂. 灵魂的缺乏使得他们无法表达想象和感受. 所以他们的照片, 如果他们做了一些的话, 都是失败的.
绝大多数人原有技术方面的爱好, 比如工程, 计算机和科学. 这些人太在乎用数字打分, 以至于完全忘记了相机和测试表与最后所得的图片的灵魂没有任何联系. 因为他们太在乎测量器材的性能, 我们给予他们"测量意淫者"的绰号. 不幸的是, 他们中的很多人逛到KenRockwell.com来寻找关于器材性能的信息.
他们中的很多人也玩音响, 计算机或车子. 正如他们看待他们的相机, 他们把这些当玩具, 而极少把它们用到原本该用的途经上.
年轻一点的玩游戏,或者上网或聊天. 年纪大一点的则加入"相机/器材"俱乐部. (你应当加入"摄影"俱乐部, 而不是相机俱乐部, 或任何试图给艺术打分的俱乐部 -- 因为艺术完全是主观的, 不能用数字评分.) 同样地, 这些人从来不用他们的器材创造出引人注目的东西. 但是他们肯定会为拥有,获得或与你谈论这些东西而兴奋.
这些人忽视的一种工具是唯一的有用的工具: 光照.
为了他们自己的缘故他们只对器材感兴趣. 如果你让着他们, 他们会讲得你耳朵生茧. 但是一旦你想看看他们的作品, 他们的声势一下子就消失了, 或者他们会以为你想看看他们的器材.
一个有不错的作品集的人不是器材意淫者. 一个拥有器材比好作品多的人可能是. 那些有一个塞满技术文章而几乎没有有趣照片的网站的人则大概就是.
在任何情况下都不要和这些人交往, 与他们聊天, 或者看他们的网站. 对于单纯的人来说他们象是知识库, 但是他们病态而缺乏活力的灵魂特别喜欢把你扯入到他们自己的地狱中去, 让你的灵魂一辈子困于担心镜头锐度的泥潭. 一旦你开始担心这个, 除了砖墙和测试表你将再也不会拍任何别的东西.
这些人很容易辨别. 如果你已经读到这里, 你大概已经看过他们的网站了. 他们经常有很多关于器材的信息, 但是几乎没有真正的摄影作品. 如果一个网站没有你崇拜的照片, 你得当心它提供的信息.
我不得不将一些器材的图片从我的网站上移走. 这些人看我的艺术, 但是他们花更多的时间看我的器材的照片! 我所购买的带宽就被这些白痴用来看我的镜头, 而不是用来看我的艺廊中的照片 -- 而那些才是这个网站的意义所在. 因此象这个一样愚蠢的网页都用黄色作底, 就要让他们的眼睛受不了而不能在这些无聊的东西上浪费太多的时间.
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