It's not easy to be original nowadays, and even that, there're people who have great ideas on mind, take the camera, and make them possible.

I've been making photos for long time now. I've never had fancy and expensive cameras, but I've been in search for good lights, appropiate places and things to leave the camera (guess what? There's no tripode either!), themes, and so I've had to use my brains very much.

So now, what's a photographer?
As I posted in the forum, I had a talk with a friend of mine about what's to be a photographer, it came something like:


-There're lots of photographers out there.
-Not actually. There're lots of people with a camera out there. Not all of them are photographers.
-What's a photographer then?
-Photographers have to show, impress, create emotions and/or thoughts... Everyone can make a picture, not everyone can make somebody else to think "wow".
-What do I need to be one of them?
-Do you have ideas? Do you think you can show something to the world? Could you make somebody feel, think, amaze..?

Are you a photographer? Do you have the ability to catch things that had to be shown? Do you have the ability to amaze? Are you original, or some other person with a camera on the hand out there?

I'm not a professional, but I'm gonna make a kind of hints panels with my own view.

Be original: make your brains work.

-What if you change the point of view, the light, the colors, introducing a new concept to a overused one?
-What if you add any random accesory into an ordinary shot? This works well for portraits, or people overall. Also in conceptual, sure.
-What if you're in front of a cool shot, but it's been done a zillion of times, and center then the point to a specify side, 'stuff', whatever, to change the meaning?
-What if you want to represent something, a normal something or concept, and search for stuff, places, (again) lights... never or few times done before?

That you'll be being original, you'll be showing and creating new emotions, new horizons.

What's the same, think before shooting. To make a picture is very easy; to make a picture that will amaze is not.
Everyone can shoot the nature, insert something different in.
Everyone can shoot people, change the composition, change the pose, change the place, stop and think what you want to present to the world, and then put the things you believe are neccesary into the frame. Or slightly out of place. Or very out of place.

I hope this can be worth it for you in some way. I'll be pleased.

And now I'll show some pictures done by photographers.
Enjoy them, they're artists.

_{Alphabetical order. I've respected the categories chose by the artists (and yes, I've separated animals and nature, yes).}


ABSTRACT AND SURREAL



ANIMALS



CONCEPTUAL



FLOWERS AND PLANTS & NATURE



LANDSCAPES



MACRO



MISCELLANEOUS



PEOPLE



STILL LIFE



URBAN AND RURAL




It's been very complicated to choose pictures, but these ones deserve a mention.
Thanks everyone for showing your works. Take them a look at their galleries!