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I agree. Very nice photos.
How come everyone always says this when they see good photos.
It's not the camera, its the photographer. As someone who has two photographers in the family I know how irritating it is. imagine you had a photo in an exhibition worth thousands that you've spent years and years learning and perfecting your skills to be able to take this photo. and some bum walks up and says "thats a good photo, i wish i had their camera" you'd be about ready to punch them in the face.
With the new cameras that actually automatically focus and set the aperture, the camera CAN actually help a person take photographs. WIthout that help meny photos are blurry and poorly lit.
The new digital cameras also allow a person to take MORE photographs, and to pick and choose which ones are best.
Even professionals with the best equipment in the world, usually only pick one out of several hundred photos if they're working artistically. The 'batting average' is actually very poor. We used to make 'contact sheets' with hundreds of images on them, and look at each tiny image on the contact sheet with a magnifying glass, and pick ONE photo to work on, enlarge and print. On a two week trip I'd typically take 20 or 30 rolls of film (36x) and pick ten or fewer out of those 1000 or so exposures.
The good digital cameras allow you to do that far more cheaply and easily.
The other thing to keep in mind is subject matter. If you take a picture of a baby gazing lovingly up at its mama, and it's in focus and properly lit, very, very VERY few people are going to criticize the composition, grey scale, color balance or other technical matters!
People are often so affected by the subject that they don't really look at the underlying qualities of the picture.
People often have some idea about composition, such as a subject shouldn't be a tiny pinpoint on the horizon, and a FEW people have a sort of 'feel' for composition, but very, very few people are actually trained in composition and have a well developed, trained eye for it.
It is STILL the photographer that composes the picture, no matter how good the camera is, if he doesn't have an 'eye', he can't take a photo that is well composed.
I agree. Very nice photos.
How come everyone always says this when they see good photos.
It's not the camera, its the photographer. As someone who has two photographers in the family I know how irritating it is. imagine you had a photo in an exhibition worth thousands that you've spent years and years learning and perfecting your skills to be able to take this photo. and some bum walks up and says "thats a good photo, i wish i had their camera" you'd be about ready to punch them in the face.
With the new cameras that actually automatically focus and set the aperture, the camera CAN actually help a person take photographs. WIthout that help meny photos are blurry and poorly lit.
The new digital cameras also allow a person to take MORE photographs, and to pick and choose which ones are best.
Even professionals with the best equipment in the world, usually only pick one out of several hundred photos if they're working artistically. The 'batting average' is actually very poor. We used to make 'contact sheets' with hundreds of images on them, and look at each tiny image on the contact sheet with a magnifying glass, and pick ONE photo to work on, enlarge and print. On a two week trip I'd typically take 20 or 30 rolls of film (36x) and pick ten or fewer out of those 1000 or so exposures.
The good digital cameras allow you to do that far more cheaply and easily.
The other thing to keep in mind is subject matter. If you take a picture of a baby gazing lovingly up at its mama, and it's in focus and properly lit, very, very VERY few people are going to criticize the composition, grey scale, color balance or other technical matters!
People are often so affected by the subject that they don't really look at the underlying qualities of the picture.
People often have some idea about composition, such as a subject shouldn't be a tiny pinpoint on the horizon, and a FEW people have a sort of 'feel' for composition, but very, very few people are actually trained in composition and have a well developed, trained eye for it.
It is STILL the photographer that composes the picture, no matter how good the camera is, if he doesn't have an 'eye', he can't take a photo that is well composed.
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