Hi, > I would like to pursue portraiture more seriously > in the future (kind of starting now) and I'm torn on how to upgrade.
You may not need to upgrade. No doubt plenty of people will advise you to spent a ton of money on lights and lenses, but it might be wiser to resist, at least for the time being. It's often worthwhile to experiment, but it can be very expensive indeed. What I would suggest is that you first establish, if you haven't already done so, what kind of portraiture you'd like to do. One way to do this is to look at the work of photographers you admire, and find out that techniques and equipment they use. One of the most widely respected British portrait photographers is Jane Bown. She's built a career and a great reputation out of shooting portraits with one camera, one lens, on black & white film in natural light. I recommend her retrospective book "Faces" very highly. In the end good portraits are not really about tons of equipment and fancy techniques (Annie Liebowitz notwithstanding), but about the relationship between the subject, the photographer and the camera. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
