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| Equipment - get over it "Are you obsessed with making images, or with buying camera gear?" The strength of an image lies within the photographer and not with the equipment. If it were true that it lay with equipment, then we'd all be taking fabulous pictures, but that's not the case. Some photographers have a way of seeing that is exceptional. Sure certain lenses will give you perspectives you wouldn't get with others, and certain formats are worth investigating, but there is too much over emphasis on gear, and not enough on the act of getting out there and making images. Robert Capa's war photographs are a perfect example. Technically they're blurred, fuzzy and taken on films that are poor by today's standards, yet his images contain a depth and impact that overcome any technical limitations of the equipment that was available to him at that time. This was a man who was obsessed with making powerful images. |
Torres del Paine, Chilean Patagonia, 2007 |
Develop you own style "Explore and be inspired. Spend your money on getting out there. Go traveling, go to a national park, anything. Don't waste your money on more camera gear. What you have already is more than enough" I believe that if you want to take great photos, you have to invest in finding and developing your style of photography. If you have a desire to create strong images you will do so no matter what the technical limitations are that you are faced with. In fact, often it is these limitations that provide us with the need to experiment, to be inventive and extract as much out the equipment as we can. In other words less is more.
Find a system that gives you a good starting base and work with that system. As you become more comfortable with it, using it will become second nature (and subsequently less of a barrier) allowing you to get closer to and improve upon the art of photography.
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