It's the Photographer, Not the Equipment - Yea, Right
Jun 16, 2016 19:16:35 #
charles brown wrote:
Many the discussion has taken place about what is ... (show quote)
Here we go again, another statement made by a guy that really doesn't understand, and will be fully backed up by those that also don't know!! LoL
I'm sure we're going to get all the girls dressed up for each other on this date also. I've been saying that equipment matters since the day I arrived. With every camera body I have owned that was better than the last, and each one has been, my photography has gotten better by the camera alone!!
Every landscaper/bug-chaser has a little trouble understanding this. It MUST be all monkey they say. Well, my nature and landscape photography have both gotten better because I'm shooting with more mp. My portraits have improved DRAMATICALLY because I have more than 70 focus points. Some think more than one focus point is a waste of money! If you don't think the camera makes a difference, you just don't know enough about either the cameras or photography !!!
I don't expect many to agree with me, we did after all just go through this same drill in another post last week about composition.
Go ahead girls, have a great DATE!!
SS
Jun 16, 2016 19:23:51 #
charles brown wrote:
They have a web site that contains numerous articles, pictures, etc. Try: http://www.outsideonline.com/ Now they have really gone and done it. An article entitled "Why the iPhone is the Best Travel Camera." Will the blasphemy never stop.
Let's face it. Since its inception, OUTSIDE has been advertising and nothing but advertising. I was once a subscriber, for three issues. Cancelled when I figured out they just wanted to tell me to buy stuff and my life would be complete.
The content is thinly veiled advertising. The ads are thinly veiled content. You can always tell the perfectly outfitted people who read this tripe...
The iPhone is a decent travel camera for some people. I like mine, but it won't be the only one I take on an expensive excursion!
Jun 16, 2016 20:41:38 #
BebuLamar wrote:
They were wrong! You have the add the cost of the battery grip to make it looks like a D5 and then you will look like a pro (not your pictures though).
And, according to Ben Stonegood, have your mode dial on P for Professional.
Jun 16, 2016 21:04:02 #
Mogul wrote:
And, according to Ben Stonegood, have your mode dial on P for Professional.
YES, absofreakin'lutely!
Jun 16, 2016 21:33:55 #
I've always thought that to, that it was what was behind the camera that really counted; until someone on the forum told me to go out and take a bird in flight with a Brownie Hawkeye. That changed things for me.
Jun 16, 2016 21:51:08 #
I was tromping around Red Rock Canyon outside of Mojave, CA one spring day. Manfrotto Backback slung over my shoulders, Nikon D7100 with Sigma 18-35 on a Indigo Marble strap, Really Right Stuff carbon fiber tripod with Panorama rail on the back, Domke photo vest and Tilly Hat. Having an awesome time.
Some stranger with a point and shoot walks over and asks, "are you a Professional Photographer?"
I smiled and said, "No, but thanks for asking."
Some stranger with a point and shoot walks over and asks, "are you a Professional Photographer?"
I smiled and said, "No, but thanks for asking."
Jun 16, 2016 22:11:56 #
Statistically, the most common type of professional photographer is the person working at the licensing center, taking boring mugshots all day.
Jun 16, 2016 22:17:16 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
I was tromping around Red Rock Canyon outside of Mojave, CA one spring day. Manfrotto Backback slung over my shoulders, Nikon D7100 with Sigma 18-35 on a Indigo Marble strap, Really Right Stuff carbon fiber tripod with Panorama rail on the back, Domke photo vest and Tilly Hat. Having an awesome time.
Some stranger with a point and shoot walks over and asks, "are you a Professional Photographer?"
I smiled and said, "No, but thanks for asking."
Some stranger with a point and shoot walks over and asks, "are you a Professional Photographer?"
I smiled and said, "No, but thanks for asking."
You should have said you were on assignment for Nat Geo, that's what I do!!
He would NOT have known the difference anyway.
He wouldn't know a Domke from a donkey if the donkey bit him!
But I would have known, because Pros don't use a 7100!!!!
SS
Jun 16, 2016 22:57:28 #
Jun 16, 2016 23:47:23 #
Rongnongno wrote:
And this is like the infamous bunny....
'S'up, Doc?
Jun 17, 2016 00:09:32 #
Hardware-camera, flash, etc-can make taking pro quality images faster, easier, etc, but can not instill knowledge, or skill. A skilled photographer can make great images with even a lensless pinhole camera. If you have any degree of skill, or are willing to work to develop it, you can eventually get pro level images from a consumer camera. It may take more effort, without extra bells & whistles, but it can be done. Many great pros of yesteryear used consumer gear. Even today, an obsolete consumer item-such as a Kodak 'Brownie' film camera-will give a skilled photographer results to rival those of today's pro digital kings, such as the Nikon D5.
Jun 17, 2016 00:28:03 #
Jun 17, 2016 05:21:26 #
dickwilber
Loc: Indiana (currently)
rook2c4 wrote:
Statistically, the most common type of professional photographer is the person working at the licensing center, taking boring mugshots all day.
And, probably, one of the better paid!
Jun 17, 2016 05:44:05 #
charles brown wrote:
Many the discussion has taken place about what is ... (show quote)
I thought it was the iPhone with the add-on lens that makes you shoot like a pro.
Jun 17, 2016 06:01:49 #
Most of us could shoot with a $40,000 digital Hasselblad and it would not make us Ansel Adams, Ed Weston, Richard Avedon, or Wynn Bullock.
Just like you can buy a Fender Stratocaster but it does not make you Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix. Or a Gibson Les Paul Guitar does not make you Les Paul, Duan Allman, Carlos Santana, or Peter Green, (I can list any number of other Photographers or Guitarists in many styles if you really want me to drive the analogies home. You don't do you?)
A camera is a tool, that is all. To read some of the posts on the UHH (fewer in this post, thank you) you'd think any image made before 2013 would be total garbage.
Just like you can buy a Fender Stratocaster but it does not make you Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix. Or a Gibson Les Paul Guitar does not make you Les Paul, Duan Allman, Carlos Santana, or Peter Green, (I can list any number of other Photographers or Guitarists in many styles if you really want me to drive the analogies home. You don't do you?)
A camera is a tool, that is all. To read some of the posts on the UHH (fewer in this post, thank you) you'd think any image made before 2013 would be total garbage.
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