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I can't remember where I saw this list but it was authored by a man named
David O. Reed. I edited the list to "20 Reasons" and I hope you enjoy it.
1. Pros hire assistants to carry all those heavy tripods and lenses, instead of marrying them
2. Pros have a grey card in their camera bags instead of a melted Snickers bar
3. Pros argue about tripods and ball-heads instead of lenses and MTF and hard to understand technical stuff like the rest of us
4. Pros bracket their shots instead of relying on the 45 sensor light meter system in their $5K cameras
5. Pros use pro labs to process jobs, instead of giving that new kid in the mini-mart lab their vacation shots
6. Pros rent stuff like lenses, instead of mortgaging the house to buy lenses like the rest of us
7. Pros actually use a tripod in the field, instead of a bean bag or car window sill
8. Pros use off-camera strobes instead of red-eye reducing pens on their prints
9. Pros edit a roll down to two shots while we bravely keep them all.
10. Pros cheat and use a lens hood, instead of bravely letting their zoom battle it out with the sun
11. Pros replace their camera batteries at least annually, instead of every three to five years or so
12. Pros like those out-moded all mechanical cameras that still work, instead of the new fangled auto-everythings that sometimes don't
13. Pros lenses are all scratched and dinged up, and they don't seem to care
14. Pros have body caps for their SLRs instead of using zip lock baggies
15. Pros have tested, used, and sold lenses you and I have just heard rumors about
16. Pros can carry an APS camera for fun shots without feeling like Wimps, while we can't
17. The photo store clerks all know the pros by name and invite them to the store Christmas party
18. Pros have reference books on topics like lighting, instead of stacks of old catalogs from B&H and Porters
19. Pros have manuals for everything, and even seem to have read them once or twice
20. Pro photographers are wimps because they use a tripod instead of hand holding a camera like a real man
John Brown Photojournalist On LIGHTSTALKERS
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