Fstoppers Wants to Know... Who Are You People?!

Fstoppers Wants to Know... Who Are You People?!

We have been doing our best to provide you all with the most amazing original and curated content for the past three years, but up until this point that's pretty much been guesswork. We think we know what you like, but often times we can be very, very wrong. So help us out by letting us know who you are and what you do. We will use it to tailor our content as we head into year 4 of Fstoppers.com.

Often we get mixed comments on the articles we write. Some people love what we publish, other times they are less excited. We really do our best to appeal to everyone who reads this site, but that's really hard to do if we aren't sure who you are. We need some guidance to let us know who we are talking to these days. So tell us, who the heck are you people?

How would you categorize yourself as a photographer/videographer?

Are you a photographer or videographer?

If you are a photographer, what do you primarily like to shoot?

What type of body is your go-to camera?

About how much money did you spend on photography in the last year (gear/education)?

 
Thanks everyone! With your help, we will be able to better tailor our content to what you are searching for, what interests you, and what you didn't even know you wanted to know.

Jaron Schneider is an Fstoppers Contributor and an internationally published writer and cinematographer from San Francisco, California. His clients include Maurice Lacroix, HD Supply, SmugMug, the USAF Thunderbirds and a host of industry professionals.

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46 Comments

Daniel Lowe avatar

Oh, yeah, and I also sent you my timelapse photography work, please feel free to share this. Since you asked who I was.

http://starmountainmedia.com/filmsblog/filmsblog-oct-2013-night-visions…

Daniel Lowe avatar

Thanks so much. I really did email a press release to about 35 websites. So far, only one of them has featured the film. It never hurts to try! :-)

Bert McLendon avatar

Only 1 medium format user? I feel so.... alooooone!!! =(

JoshGaede avatar

They wouldn't accept my kidney to buy a MF body lol.

Pete Ferling avatar

I surrendered Cambo's for 1Ds' at work, but they will pry my M645 from my cold dead hands. :)

Hey man, you do some great shooting. I'm rebranding/updating my disgustingly out of date portfolio, have you been happy with aphotofolio?

Bert McLendon avatar

Aphotofolio is amazing! There is ooooone thing that I wish it had and that is to be able to turn numbers on the thumbnails so that clients can say "I like number 5 and 10". That is THE only thing that it's missing for me, but other than that, it's awesome, very awesome. =)

I will rent every now and again but FF is just easier for me to deal with

Spider- Man avatar

only in film but figured they wanted to know the digi stuff ;)

"If you are a photographer, what do you primarily shoot?"

Other: Sports. Mostly baseball, but also some BMX.

Just thought I would toss it out there since there isn't a box to expand on "other".

I checked other, i'm a music photographer

Hopefully this will be helpful for everyone. I love the behind the scenes type features with the big name photographers such as Martin Schoeller. Very interesting. I'd love to see more of these with detailed lighting setups. I love Peter Hurley as well and find his work and videos inspiring. I'm basically a photo sponge - anything you can throw at me that can be applied either in the studio or out in the field when working with my clients, please do so. Thanks Fstoppers!

What type of body is your go-to camera?
35mm film camera.

same problem here....i do have a crop sensor dslr too, so i checked that....but iv'e been shooting mostly film this year

Steve avatar

Great Post, I hope will it affect what fstoppers posts will be about in the future!

Simon avatar

I'd rather write who I am not.. I'm not someone who visits photo blogs to see posts that are more Reddit fare than photo blog material. Stop posting stupid, political, click-bait photos about show hosts killing lions, transgender models, women having a hard time swallowing, mormon missionary positions, before and after hooker photos, and way too much new age NSFW garbage.. But that's just me.

Matt avatar

www.pdbym.com
IG: @pdbym

this is who I am! :)

Omar Salgado avatar

"I'm only human. Of flesh and blood I'm made."

Timothy Jace avatar

I am glad you (FStoppers) asked! I come here to read and learn from the experts! This place is the source for the latest innovations in photo-videography! Love you guys! Hope you been making money too!

Owain Shaw Photo avatar

Another 'Other' - Theatre and Dance mostly, and doing lots of work and some exhibitions in rehearsals at the moment. Reading Fstoppers from Spain.

http://www.owainshawphoto.com

Amaury van der Beken avatar

I checked other : I'm a nightlife photographer --> www.amauryvdb.com

I shoot whiskey and photos. And I'm all out of whiskey. har har.

Ken Cranney (Riker) avatar

MF is the next move up.

Rob Gipman avatar

To see what i'm shooting look at my shot http://www.flickr.com/photos/gipukan/ My whole kit was recently stolen but i'm getting a 3de 7d tomorrow so I can shoot again. Good thing for insurance!

Marius Budu avatar

Other: fine art nude photography

www.mariusbudu.com

Dan Parratt avatar

I'm predominantly a landscape photographer but also do some night stuff ;) -----> http://danparratt.co.uk

cool. I took a similar photo last week :) gas station at night.

Dan Parratt avatar

Thanks man, they look really interesting at night, don't they?

I did a whole project on medium format for university but wasn't happy with many of them, so decided I'm going to re-shoot about half of the images :)

Dino Traite avatar

Oh man I love that! The colors remind me of LEGOs.

Christopher Aleman avatar

I'm the camera man, editor, and everything in between! I shoot tourism videos for Galveston Island. I don't shoot on a DSLR, but your page is still super helpful! I use Adobe and shoot on a Sony HXR NX7OU.

Sports, I put photojournalism since I guess that's as close as it could be.

Scott avatar

Sports and Music. I chose other but thought about environmental portraits.

On what type of pictures, lately it's been my daughter's marching band, essentially night sports photography. I was one of the official band photographers. Next month I'm the official photographer for the girls varsity basketball team.

José Miguel Stelluti avatar

I am José Miguel... nice to meet you... jajajaja Cheers from Venezuela People!!!

Norshan Nusi avatar

Wow...I thought many photographers are using crop sensor (due to the expensive price of full frame DSLR)

But the voting results mean full frame DLSR are getting more affordable these days~

Norshan Nusi avatar

And I shoot mainly enviromental portraits too...

Dino Traite avatar

The closest thing I could put for me, as a full time art student is 'part time photographer' and 'other' for what I shoot, because I haven't singled down what exactly I want to focus on yet, since I like a lot of things. I do plan on going into the commericial photography field when I graduate, though.

Carlos Garcia N. avatar

Still not in the full frame leagues