On Aug 18, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > We often talk about tools and the final result they may or may not achieve, > but tools, in my view, facilitate artistic process-- good tools combined with > artists who understand those tools--and the creative decisions made during > the creative process usually makes for a very enjoyable artistic process--the > process should give pleasure, it should allow for creative discovery while in > the act of creating art. When an artist has excellent tools and knows how to > use them well, this often allows the artist to actually forget about the > tools and focus on the *process* of creating art--and when the artist is deep > in the zone, that is, the process--it's very pleasurable.
There is another aspect of this, which varies from person to person, and that is how worthwhile it is to spend the effort to get the last bit of performance out of a particular piece of gear. For example, at some point someone with $1,000 lying around would do better to buy a K-5 for doing low light photography, than they would spending the time figuring out how to get the very last bit of performance out of a K100Dsuper. In the days of film bodies, the benefits of learning the gear generally outweighed the benefits of upgrading, at least far more than it does today. These days, there is a balance, which is a lot harder to pin down, where better gear may far outweigh marginally better performance out of the gear you have. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
