Photography is not about the equipment that you use, but about a simple fact of taking a picture that makes others think, it creates an effect, makes people stop and look. Lately too many people concentrate on the proper setting on the camera, or what it is capable of and upgrading every time a new one comes out. Just the other day i had a discussion with my brother in law, when we were going over my new G3 camera and the first thing he did is ask can the camera do manual setting, how can you control shutter speed how can you measure the light, essentially comparing it to his Full Frame Canon, while the answer was yes In my eyes he missed the point of why i got the camera. It is not about if its better or worse then FF, its about that I can take it with me and capture the moments instead of missing them. To me its not about setting or having the latest highest mega-pixel camera; my camera is set to Aperture priority at all times, because it works for me, i go with my got feeling of what the ISO should be or the F. stop and that works. A good friend of mine(Greg Khitrov) who is a wedding photographer published a book called Fusion Style photography(you can look it up on amazon.com) and the book talks about not worrying so much about the studio setup and the tripods and just be out there taking pictures, have fun with it.
The point of my rambling here is I myself guilty of wanting a better equipment instead of just being out there and taking pictures, which is what i am doing now with my new camera. Go take pictures, have fun with it, we all see different thing as we look at the world and our interpretation of things via photography is what makes it fun.
I think we all fall prey to the marketing Roman, it's very effective and feed on our desires to grow. We just all need to keep it real. Like what you have written here.
ReplyDeleteMarketing is a very effective machine is messing with people's mind, just look at all the people who were lining up for new iPad, i am sure most of them do not need it.
DeleteThere will always be better cameras, computers and other toys. However, what counts is your ability to see the world threw this tiny hole. Than, silently, convince the viewer to fall in love with your world and your UNIQUE ability to see it. That's an art that no other piece of equipment can ever replace!
ReplyDeleteTechniques, however, do matter very much. But not to someone seeing your world. They simply fall in love with your colors and shapes, not your "f" stop or the exposure or the ISOs.
I truly command you on your embrace of photography as both an art form as well as communication tool with others as well as your soul's!
Thank you
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