There is an incredible feeling in a photographer's heart when he captures that picture, that moment when the shot inspires him, and he knows that he captured something unique, something that Tom in accounting can't catch with his cell phone camera. In a day and age where everybody has a camera on their phone and believes they are photographers. There is something to be said for the guy who put the years into understanding, posing, lighting, composition, highlights and shadows, backlighting, side lighting, hair lighting, and on top of it all how to make the subject feel comfortable in front of the lens. You are not a photographer because you own a camera, you are a photographer because you understand light and how it is used to capture the brilliance of a unique subject,
It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to capture a portrait of who they are