Is Photography/camera a guy thing?

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What you can say about female photography enthusiast?
 
Not sure what you're asking here? I know a couple of female professional photographers - one is a PJ who has worked in conflict zones - and I've met a lot more. There are plenty of female amateurs and enthusiasts.
 
I think the gear/fact obsession is more a blokey thing - you rarely see/hear a group of ladies stood around talking (very seriously) in numbers - but I don't see photography as a blokey thing per se.
 
kai28 said:
What you can say about female photography enthusiast?
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Fine - know a few (plenty on here) and one professional.
Your question is a tad vague.
 
i know there isnt wrong with women whos into photography, its just that some people thinks its more like a masculine thing.
 
some people just cant accept that photography is not just a masculine thing.
 
Can't say I've ever come across that attitude at all. Photography is gender neutral. Perhaps guys are more inclined to be gearheads, but that doesn't make photography more of a male preserve.
 
One of my college evening courses for beginners last year had eight women and two men on it. Men tend to be more likely to have grips and fancy straps and other gizzmo stuff, and always ask more questions about the cost of kit. In general, I get a few more male than female students, but there isn't much in it.
 
I'd have to say no, more women than ever getting into photography, and no reason why they shouldn't
 
At my school I run a photography club and there're an equal amount of girls to boys though the boys do tend to be a bit more enthusiastic about the gear!! Can't say the same about the photography club I used to go to. It was for the most part an old mans club with the exception of a few younger people and a handful of females.
 
I'm doing a photography evening class at the moment and its exactly 50/50
 
I love my photography and the gear that goes with it, but I also like swords and guns and do battle re-enactment dressed as a chap, so perhaps I should have been born a bloke!
 
MadWoman said:
I love my photography and the gear that goes with it, but I also like swords and guns and do battle re-enactment dressed as a chap, so perhaps I should have been born a bloke!
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Joan of Arc managed pretty well, and she wasn't...............
 
Female photography students always out number male photography students... every year without fail.
 
I think it's great women being into photography I mean after all who else is going to carry your gear? :shrug:







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What is there to say? I know plenty of women who are photography enthusiasts and a few who are pro's.

I tend to find that women are less gadget oriented so are less likely to get kit fever or spend hours debating what f-stop, ISO or shutter speed to use with strangers on the Internet.

I actually quite like the fact that photography is a gender-blind hobby.
 
Men are just into gear more than women. Women tend to be more creative as photographers I find.. they treat cameras as tools, and don't obsess about gear as much. They're more interested in the finished image.
 
Most men are more concerned about having enough red rings and that their lens is larger than the next bloke. Just look in the equipment section here- it's always go full frame and buy l lenses without though! ;)
 
kai28 said:
What you can say about female photography enthusiast?
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People say the same for Interior Designers / Fashion Designers that say for female or gay men!

I am a straight man, and am currently studying Interior Design and also am working in the fashion business.
 
I know more female photographers in real life than I do male. It's just that we men love spending time on forums measurebating, so internet forums are hardly the best place to spot a trend!
 
GatoAzul1968 said:
The banner in this site says:

Female Photographer
www.kimberleygarrod.co.uk
Wedding Photographer Hampshire Fun Natural Relaxed Creative Photos
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Yeah well... look at it... She's hardly Nan Golding... :)

Besides, she shoots kids a lot, and the Daily Mail mentality is making people think all blokes with a camera are predatory sex pests. That was bound to happen... the need to put "female Photogapher"... she may as well be saying "Non Kiddy Fiddling Photographer".. stupid.

Hilla Becher, Nan Golding, Diane Arbus, Sally Mann, Annie Leibovitz, Eve Arnold, Margaret Bourke-White, Julia Margaret Cameron , Rineke Dijkstra, Jill Greenberg, Faye Godwin, Dorothea Lange, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Lola Álvarez Bravo.....

seriously... I could go on like that all night. No pink to be seen there either.

Most women's disdain for all the techy male BS allows them to concentrate on making art. Some blokes can learn a thing or two from that.
 
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Certainly not, was at Southbank today ALOT of cameras about - must of been half and half!
 
must of been half and half! - actually, 'must have been half and half.'

Not, 'of.'

English.
 
Grammar Nazi alert :) You don't see me picking up on your use of a hyphen where an ellipsis is obviously required :)
 
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FruitFlakes said:
I know more female photographers in real life than I do male. It's just that we men love spending time on forums >>>>measurebating<<<< so internet forums are hardly the best place to spot a trend!
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I thought that said something else then...
 
kai28 said:
some people just cant accept that photography is not just a masculine thing.
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I think you're just creating issues that simply don't exist.

I wish my GF was into photography!
 
huxleypiggles said:
If this isn't the time and place where do you draw the line?
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Where? Perhaps a forum relating to English and its use, and not a photography forum where we don't give a rat's ass.

"Yuo cna stlil reed this prefeclty well so stpo being pedantic".
 
Oh yes, I find that photography really helps me bring out my macho side :cuckoo:
 
Surely this was a troll post wasn't it? Shall I now start a thread asking whether photography is a white person thing and see how that goes...
 
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