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Fanboy!: Fanboy loves his camera, it’s his/her life. Fanboy will defend his make and brand of camera to the death! Any attempt at honest critique or reason will not work. Fanboy will often launch into a robust zealous defense of their camera, because its the best, they bought it so it must be.
Mega Gear Head!: MGH is the ultimate gear head. Not only do they have the best camera bodies, the most expensive lenses, flashes, the fastest CF cards...the works...MGH is the ultimate dream come true for camera companies. Cheap is not a word they use.
They also come in two distinct flavours:
Mac MGH: As above but the proud owner of an Apple computer. Not just any old Mac, but the top of the line multi CPU cinema display monitor X2, THX certified speakers, 4Gb+ RAM...the works.
They try to convince PC MGH that Apple are better.
PC MGH: Same as above but tries to convince Mac MGH that PC's are better.
Both have heaps of software (expensive photo editing stuff), spend hours even days trying to post process that perfect shot, even if its not that good anyway. Mac and PC MGH loathe each other.
Crop Maniac: Related to Megapixel maniac: They need more megapixels to crop, whatever they get isnt enough. Give ‘em 12mp they want 16! Big is better and more pixels makes them happy. They also post crop shots to prove "their point".
Post processing Fanboy: Related to fanboy. To these people if you dont spend half a day on your shot in Photoshop, you are not serious about photography. Every shot must be heavily pp, and with Photoshop. PP fanboy always shoots in RAW...all the time, and will post images to convince other that RAW is better than JPEG... PP fanboy worries about losing his images, so has extra HDD's, other computers, CD/DVD hard copies of RAW...and of course multiple RAW programs so they can "compare" details....
Digital Dude: The DD loves digital; some are ex 35mm users. They swear that film is for dinosaurs and that nobody needs it anymore. Some have never shot film. They also post crop shots of scanned film v digital posts....and will never admit to film being any good, its always worse....always
Dodge Burn freak: DB freak loves to d&b in Photoshop. Black & White isn’t worth anything unless they have spent a good few hours tearing the contrast levels to death and producing an image that’s miles away from what it used to be. DB freak was brought up on a staple diet of Ansel Adams, whom they love, but they always feel upset that they don’t get the results that they really want. You are not serious about b&w work if you don’t d&b.
HDR man: HDR man has got some interesting results from multi images at different exposures, they love it. They crave more dynamic range; some even shoot 5+ frames. They tend not to worry about composition and stuff as much. They love the effect they get.
Photographer: Worries little about the above. They have the skill to see a shot and produce the results, whatever they have camera wise. Photographer isn’t chained to his pc/mac, can sometimes even work without Photoshop. They worry about getting the shot they want...and that’s all. They never blame gear of equipment, only themselves. Most are heavy self critics....and think eat and sleep picturing the next shot they want. Photographer is driven to improve his skill, and has no real concern for tests and such. The image is the goal.
Barry Fitzgerald, who uses both 35mm and film cameras, considers himself a realist photographer and limits the degree of post processing for most shots. His cameras include a Minolta HI-Matic -F rangefinder, Olympus IS1000 35mm bridge camera, Konica Minolta Dynax 5D SLR. Born in London, Britain, Barry lives in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland.
