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What cameras does the greatest landscape photographer use??
Mar 6, 2015 06:50:25 #
I subscribe to OP and read that article just a few days after buying an FZ70. I guess that puts the pressure on me. Haven't had a chance to do much with it yet but that little camera is more impressive than I expected. We'll see.
Mar 6, 2015 07:02:47 #
paulrph1
Loc: Washington, Utah
johnmowry wrote:
While there could (and probably will) be endless debate about who's the best, it does show that having excellent skills and being "there" with a camera you understand goes a long way toward making good photos (at least until you blow them up to 30"x50".
I understand he used to use a Polaroid camera before shooting the larger film camera to check and see what he had as to save money. With digital that would not be an issue.
Mar 6, 2015 07:43:40 #
Well I think the best one in todays world and right here on our site, blacks2!! Mike has some outstanding pictures he has posted for us to enjoy. If you haven't seen his work, you should take a look at all of his posts. He can use a camera to it's fullest!!!!!
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Mar 6, 2015 08:25:47 #
A poorly composed and exposed photo using a great (d8xx for example) is blah. An excellently composed and exposed photo made with a 8mp P&S will catch your interest - perhaps enough that you won't think about the relatively low resolution
Mar 6, 2015 08:42:04 #
All other things considered - it is not the tool but the craftsman. Better tools expand capability but do not make the craftsman - remember the # 2pencil lead carvings Jerry posted several days ago?
Mar 6, 2015 08:43:08 #
lighthouse
Loc: No Fixed Abode
MW wrote:
A poorly composed and exposed photo using a great (d8xx for example) is blah. An excellently composed and exposed photo made with a 8mp P&S will catch your interest - perhaps enough that you won't think about the relatively low resolution
A pile of horse manure cooked over a campfire and shaped into a square and covered in lemon icing is still a pile of horse manure.
I'll have the big high tech oven that baked the poorly made biscuits thank you.
Mar 6, 2015 09:01:36 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
It all goes back to the same old adage. The quality of the photograph has almost nothing to do with the camera. It has to do with the photographers experience, training, and eye.
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Mar 6, 2015 09:15:34 #
Gene51 wrote:
Thanks for asking. I use a D800.
All kidding aside, I am not sure the camera matters that much. His work is great because he knows how to handle his camera of choice, and he brings out the best in his images in post processing. He also travels a lot, and visits some of the most beautiful places on earth, and has a very nice eye for composition.
All kidding aside, I am not sure the camera matters that much. His work is great because he knows how to handle his camera of choice, and he brings out the best in his images in post processing. He also travels a lot, and visits some of the most beautiful places on earth, and has a very nice eye for composition.
This I fully agree with. He is talented and it is part of his being. I grew up with his AZ highways photos, absolutely fabulous and inspiring. By the way AZ Highways only accepted 4x5 or larger format photos as a rule only broken on occasion until relatively recently. Is he the greatest? Perhaps. But is he great? Yes.
Mar 6, 2015 09:25:20 #
Erv wrote:
Well I think the best one in todays world and right here on our site, blacks2!! Mike has some outstanding pictures he has posted for us to enjoy. If you haven't seen his work, you should take a look at all of his posts. He can use a camera to it's fullest!!!!!
Erv
Erv
What he said!!!
Mar 6, 2015 09:42:35 #
A lot of elements go into great landscape photography.
Timing the light
Choosing the viewpoint
Using a tripod
Setting the appropriate exposure
Composition
Perspective
Somewhere on the list is the camera
Back home, post-process skills and tools are in play.
My Dad was a systems manager. He taught me to balance the entire system for any process. If you optimize only a part of it, while other elements are unbalanced, you're wasting your time.
The greats understand this. The camera needs to be "good enough". The photographer needs to know what to do with it.
MOST cameras are better than most photographers' knowledge of, and actual use of them.
Timing the light
Choosing the viewpoint
Using a tripod
Setting the appropriate exposure
Composition
Perspective
Somewhere on the list is the camera
Back home, post-process skills and tools are in play.
My Dad was a systems manager. He taught me to balance the entire system for any process. If you optimize only a part of it, while other elements are unbalanced, you're wasting your time.
The greats understand this. The camera needs to be "good enough". The photographer needs to know what to do with it.
MOST cameras are better than most photographers' knowledge of, and actual use of them.
Mar 6, 2015 10:07:13 #
David Muench is a GREAT photographer - and, I am sorry, great prints do not come from SX50 - though great images can !
DM has compromised his working style for convenience today - and that is OK - considering his total body of work ! Ansel did the same thing with Haselblads and polaroid.
Right now, I am more concerned with what the younger GREAT successful photographers are using - like Peter Lik.
DM has compromised his working style for convenience today - and that is OK - considering his total body of work ! Ansel did the same thing with Haselblads and polaroid.
Right now, I am more concerned with what the younger GREAT successful photographers are using - like Peter Lik.
Mar 6, 2015 10:16:49 #
Mar 6, 2015 11:04:26 #
johnmowry wrote:
While there could (and probably will) be endless debate about who's the best, it does show that having excellent skills and being "there" with a camera you understand goes a long way toward making good photos (at least until you blow them up to 30"x50".
So unless the picture can be blown up to major proportions, it can't be good? just asking. I don't understand what size has to do with anything.
Mar 6, 2015 11:20:12 #
amyinsparta wrote:
So unless the picture can be blown up to major proportions, it can't be good? just asking. I don't understand what size has to do with anything.
Wrong question.
Mar 6, 2015 11:22:36 #
Jay7h wrote:
In this months Outdoor Photography Magazine, there... (show quote)
So far it just might be Ansel Adams and he used view cameras mostly.
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