On 8/20/2012 1:06 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
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
Gear is tools. How well you know how to use them is more important than
what they are.
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Gear is tools.
MARK!
How well you know how to use them is more important than
what they are.
Amen bro...
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- Original Message -
From: John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com
Subject: Re: Creativity vs. gear?
Gear
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
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
== someone with $1,000 lying around ==
Fallacy detected: EOM.
:-)
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equal measure to the creative decisions made *during* the *process* of creating
art.
Often this question--Creativity vs Gear--is set up as an either/or, but it's
not; it's both! Painters experiment with the great variety of brushes and
paints, which all produce different effects--as do
On 8/14/2012 7:59 PM, steve harley wrote:
as it happens, fresh from Goodwill i've got _Under the Sun_, by Adriel
Heisey, photos of the Sonoran Desert taken by an pilot who's also a very
good photographer; it's actually one of the more stimulating landscape
books i've seen in a while (and i've
on 2012-08-11 9:43 Boris Liberman wrote
Consider this - in general people don't fly. Yet they take wonderful landscape
photos. But if people could fly as easily as they walk, they might have been
able to make even better landscape photos. Or may be not.
as it happens, fresh from Goodwill i've
Reply interspersed.
On 8/9/2012 8:13 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct:
lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
IMO - neither. You see, Igor, equipment is
On 8/9/2012 5:55 PM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne wrote:
Do I think too much gear hinders creativity?
To be honest I have no idea. Because who's to say how much is too
much? And who's to say which is more creative; to apply the tool with
the best specs for a particular job, or to get surprisingly
On 8/9/2012 9:07 PM, Bob W wrote:
It's not how much gear you have that matters, but how much it costs. That's
why all Leica photographers are so damned good.
B
Indeed. Every time they take their cameras and lenses out of their bags,
they are reminded of the gear cost, so they curse ever so
creative with what you
have.
So the answer to the above question is - maybe.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
- Original Message - From: Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org
Subject: Creativity vs. gear?
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment
: Creativity vs. gear?
Igor's words (part):
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct:
lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
...snip...
While I would't just say there is something
On Aug 8, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct:
lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
I completely disagree. Equipment and creativity
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org wrote:
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct:
lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
I agree. Creativity blossoms in an
Thought provoking post...
I believe that creativity ultimately comes from the tool between our
ears. Equipment can not substitute for creativity, but it can enable
greater creativity through a new way to see the world (for example, a
shallow DOF lens can suddenly help you to envision scenes in a
Do I think too much gear hinders creativity?
To be honest I have no idea. Because who's to say how much is too much?
And who's to say which is more creative; to apply the tool with the best specs
for a particular job, or to get surprisingly good results with a less
prestigious tool?
Igor
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org wrote:
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct:
lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
I agree ... and disagree. :-)
I
Igor's words (part):
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct:
lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
...snip...
While I would't just say there is something as too much photo gear,
Based on my admittedly limited experience, I think the capabilities of
the gear do enhance creativity, but that it pretty quickly bumps up
against the law of diminishing returns. By way of example, my initial
interest in photography was fired by a Canon PS while taking snapshots
at a drag
If you can think it, you can photograph it. All the rest is just arguing
about how hard you had to work to get the shot.
And the truth is, nobody cares how hard it was, other than a few
obsessive compulsive types. Your photos are only as good as your
imagination.
But entertaining stories
: Creativity vs. gear?
Igor's words (part):
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct:
lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
...snip...
While I would't just say there is something
on 2012-08-08 23:13 Igor Roshchin wrote
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct:
lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
correlation is not causation; it's all about attitude
i agree
the answer to the above question is - maybe.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
- Original Message -
From: Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org
Subject: Creativity vs. gear?
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity
It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress
the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct:
lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
This guy, shooting Olympics with iPhones, has been feature in many
news/blogs:
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