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Jul 5, 2010 Tips & Techniques
I am browsing fro medical assisting school for a cousin, but I just had to share this.
The two main misconceptions that we most often have about equipment when we’re starting out in photography are:
* The latest, greatest gear results in better photos.
* The gear you have is not good enough because your images are not. In other words you blame the equipment.A camera doesn’t take the photo, nor does any piece of photographic equipment. Photos are made by you – the photographer. Sure in some very rare cases you might have a technical issue with a camera body or a lens, but for most part that’s not the concern. Most of the essential photographic gear is better than good enough these days, it has been for the last five years or so (with the development of affordable digital SLRs), one just has to know how to use it to its full potential.
My advice here in short is – forget about chasing the latest, greatest stuff. Get out there with what you have, figure out how to get the most out of your equipment, learn when to use one lens over another, when to use a tripod and of course, learn about the basics of photography – setting the aperture, shutter speed and ISO. This might seem like the most obvious advice imaginable, but somehow so many aspiring photographers still think that it’s all about the equipment you have, there’s just nothing further from the truth.
Source: http://digital-photography-school.com/travel-photography-mistakes.
Don’t you agree? So true, most people do equate good photos with great gears. But that is not entirely true. A good photo really does lie on the one taking the pictures. You can say that this statement of mine comes with a little bit of bitterness on the side. Slightly true. Hee hee. Only because I cannot afford the latest and best gear out there even if I am dying to have them.
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