Paul Stenquist wrote: >> On Jul 10, 2016, at 3:55 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Igor PDML-StR wrote: >>> >>> Something just hit me, provoking this line of thoughts... >>> >>> Preamble: >>> How many times have you heard (usually from people you don't know >>> closely): "You've got nice photos, you must have a nice camera!". >> >> I have heard this precisely zero times. I think it's a photographer's >> Urban Legend. >> >It sounds familiar of course, but Im not sure if Ive actually heard it. I >think its been implied in comments regarding my work. But I dont obsess >about it. Doesnt really matter.
I think the proliferation of smartphone cameras is making it increasingly less likely for people to think this way. As everyone takes more photos they learn just how difficult it is to take really good ones, regardless of equipment. In fact, Apple's "Taken with an iPhone" ad campaign may be having the opposite effect of that intended: Instead of thinking "Gosh, I can take pictures that good" people think "I've seen tons of my friends' photos taken with that phone and none of them are anywhere near as good. Maybe photography's more about the person holding the camera than it is about the camera itself". -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- 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.
