is photography a talent?

Photography can be learned, all aspects of it.

There are some specialities of the field that require some creative thinking, those things can be learned as well. Some people have the ability to learn and assimilate knowledge and technique faster than others.
 
Short answer: yes.

The ability to make an image to communicate with an audience (generally using only the visual senses) is a talent... the ability to create a visually pleasing image is also a talent... the technical stuff about cameras can be learned. Therefore, photography utilizes talent.

It's like painting - you'd consider that a talent, wouldn't you? That ability, to be able to imagine & communicate to others a certain image, is a talent, and the technical things like mixing paints can be learned.
 
It takes a combination of skills to be a skilled photographer

In about two years of schooling, you can master the technical aspects of photography.

It usually takes many additional years to develop your creativity and compositional skills and ability to combine your "artistic eye" with the hardcore technical aspects of photography.

Here is a link you may find interesting.

http://photoinf.com/General/Robert_Berdan/Composition_and_the_Elements_of_Visual_Design.htm
 
i guess you can say its more of a skill then a talent. i mean it takes skill to do what we all do and it takes a good eye... just like a painter, not everyone can do it... so yes i would say it can be a talent but i would say its more of a skill :D
 
Of course it is - but talents are nothing unless they are turned to skill :)

If you rely purely on talent, then you won't get anywhere. Pick up a book and read about photography.

I can't draw but after a painstaking year of classes, I've managed to go from sticks to oil paintings.
 
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