when do you stop being a beginner ?

[leemanley]

Which category would an image like this fit in

Beginner, intermediate, pro ?

[Matt Scunthorpe]

That is a nice image.

However, i dont think you can categorize people like that. Some people i know that i would consider pros, but would consider themselves beginners or intermediates.

[Treeden]

That's two different questions really:

when do you stop being a beginner?

Difficult to say, but probably when you have a good grasp of most of the basic princples, and a reasonable amount of practical experience? More important is probably the realisation that you never stop learning.

Which category would an image like this fit in, Beginner, intermediate, pro ?

I'm not qualified to say, but it's a nice image.

[Freddie]

That's a nice image, but believe me, this is a never ending learning experience !!!

[scoobee]

Liking the image, as for when you leave the ranks of a beginner then surely only you can say when, once when you have reached your orginal aim and what to take it to the next stage then you are no longer a beginner?!

[leemanley]

nothing controversial meant by the post, just after a general idea of folks perceptions of what is ok, great or wow !

Never a better saying that, 'You never stop learning'

That's very true !!!

Is there a governing body that could give us marks out of ten ?

That'll help !

[The Sailor]

Every time I go out and I take some photos I end up with some that not even a beginner would dare show and then again I take some very good ones, to me I am still a beginner and I doubt if I will ever be perfect, will always be learning

Jim

[allcart]

I'm in your camp Jim. Everytime I process an image and think its good, I look on here and someone has posted the same image only ten times better. So I archive the image and vow to do better next time . I am a beginner, and shall be for as long as it takes to not be a beginner.

As for pro...., what is a pro?

If you do astro imaging as a full time job and earn a living selling your photographs, then you might regard yourself as a pro. What is a pro image? its all a matter of perception and personal taste.

[toxic]

no such thing as a beginner once you have taken you first picture then you have already began. so then you join the intermediate and im happy with being at the intermediate stage and capturing an image of something so far away (good or bad) it still amazes me.

i do try do to better and sometimes i will most times i wont but its great fun.

when there aint no clouds in the way.

[toxic]

oh sorry nice image

[Beulah]

The forum title states 'Getting Started with Imaging' - which isn't a forum to post images from beginners, but to provide support FOR people who are starting out in photon collection & processing.

When I look at astro images I am not interested in the 'professional' level of the author.

We just love our little pigeonholes....

[The Sailor]

There you are all, you have been told, slapped wrist from teacher

Jim

[Beulah]

As they used to put at the bottom of my homework...

See me.

[sologuitarist61]

I think the answer to 'when do you stop being a beginner ?' is Never, there is always something new to learn or find out about.

Great image by the way

[Alastair Rae]

I do a lot of (non-astro) photography. The more I do, the less happy I get with the results. As Socrates said 'The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.' So the more I learn, the more faults I find in my work.

[Cath]

when do you stop being a beginner ? ..

2 years, 9 months, 6 days, 23 hours, 40 mins and 23 seconds after you started

[The Sailor]

when do you stop being a beginner ? ..

2 years, 9 months, 6 days, 23 hours, 40 mins and 23 seconds after you started

So we now have a beginners gestation period

Jim

[Cath]

So we now have a beginners gestation period

Jim

lol, ayeeee Jim lad

[earth titan]

The older I get, the better I used to be!

Typed by me on my fone, using fumms... Excuse eny speling errurs.

[leemanley]

The image I took was a single shot at prime focus.

Getting a nice clear image of the moon is a pretty easy task, being lucky enough to have the set-up I own, however, getting a decent capture of say, M42, is quite a long drawn out, often fruitless saga, tracking/stacking, focussing errors etc.....

Maybe a better term for beginner should probably be ' learner', you could well find yourself in this bracket for most of your imaging life, what with all the new toys that come available !

I am happy with a lot of the stuff I have achieved over the last 2 years - none of it will ever see a magazine page ! - but get a lot from sharing it with friends and family who are really interested in what is up there.

Anyway, the moons just about to pop out so I'll slip me 'L' plates on and nip out for half hour to see what I can get !

[Catweazel]

I don't think that I will stop being a beginner for quite some time; mainly due to the fact that it's always cloudy and I hardly ever get the chance to do anything

[allcart]

Maybe a better term for beginner should probably be ' learner', you could well find yourself in this bracket for most of your imaging life,

yes, that just about sums it up. I think everyone here will fall in that category.

[sologuitarist61]

I do a lot of (non-astro) photography. The more I do, the less happy I get with the results. As Socrates said 'The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.' So the more I learn, the more faults I find in my work.

Very true Alastair, the better you get, the faster your expectations rise