On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:49 +1100, "Rob Studdert"
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 31/03/2010, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes - I discovered his blog a few months back - very refreshing
approach
and he doesn't seem up himself like some others.
I find that article somewhat smug and condescending. Sure anyone can
exist with only a bottom line camera + kit zoom but frankly most
photographers seriously pursuing the hobby would soon run into the
limits of such a kit.
Well, perhaps. But I think he's just pointing out that being obsessed
by more and 'better' equipment doesn't necessarily make you a better
photographer. You need to be out taking photos.
A similar message to this one:
http://www.whattheduck.net/strip/184-sunday
WTD put it very well.
I think that there's another message, that learning one piece of gear
very well makes you a much better photographer than trying to improve
the photos by buying more gear. When I'm teaching at the track, I tell
my students to not make any unnecessary adjustments to the car,
because they won't be able to tell what causes any differences in
their lap times.
I know that when I spend a lot of time photographing with just a
single prime lens I learn a lot more than when I use a zoom, or even
swap lenses on a whim. Spending a few weeks shooting almost entirely
with the 20mm taught me a lot about selection of focal length, and it
changed the way I use zoom lenses.
--
Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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