Benchmark for art supplement's "substantial talent beyond standard high-school level"?

TiggerDad
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:14:51 +0000

“If my camera’s quality is lower than professional/expensive cameras, would that be okay?”

I’ve been a semi-professional (by choice) photographer for the past few decades, and I can assure you that great photographers can produce great works of art no matter how lowly their camera is. Given today’s DSLR (soon to be extinct, by the way, as the camera engineering is all heading toward the “mirrorless”), even the lowest of them is highly capable of producing great images. In other words, it’s not the camera that determines the worth of your art. I’ve seen many people with most expensive cameras and lenses (between the two, the lens is more important, by the way), yet they produce shots that aren’t any better than the snapshots out of a cell phone.

The best way to compare your level of art work is to look at what top high school photographers are doing, so the YoungArts is a good place to start. Consult with local professional photographers for their assessment, too. There are many photography related discussion forums and groups where you can post your images and seek the opinions of other members. Just in Facebook, there are countless photography related groups. Flickr is another; the Photography on the Net is yet another, etc.