There is one thing I hate when people are commenting about photos. For example,
xxx : Oh wow! That's a nice picture! What camera you use?
I mean really. It doesn't matter what you use. I can use a 2.0MP camera phone and produce the same result above. Im not being lansi or anything. Its just my personal opinion on photography. Here is one thing, everybody can pick up a camera and snap but not everybody can see and snap like professional photographers do because all photos depends on the lighting and creativity. Whether it is bright enough or not, creative or not creative.
Sometimes an older digital camera with less megapixels is better than modern 10MP digital compact cameras. I can even prove this but my old Canon 3.2MP camera spoiled. And that was my first interest in photography and the performance of that camera is great. Plus, its a compact, easy to bring it everywhere. Kudos to my father who bought it.
What I am trying to say is, the skill of taking photographs is more important than camera equipments. I've seen pictures of compact cameras better than DSLR users including mine. Be it Canon or Nikon or Leica. The quality of the photo is as good as the photographer's imagination and skill. I did mentioned this in Facebook a few times in the past.
Its okay to have all the gear or camera you can get in the world if you are rich. What matters is which lens or camera to use in a particular situation or event.
After I bought my first DSLR, in fact is my first camera I bought for myself, I thought that I can take great pictures in that instant. Yes, it does but I've been using it for more than a year now and 70% of the pictures can't be use. It didn't look good to me. Now I started thinking, why are so many shots are ugly?
Angle, lighting, white balance, composition, exposure and focusing. All these factors need to be taken into account when taking a photograph. Sounds tough right? It is actually, very! This is why so many shots of mine are not usable. Its always either the white balance or the exposure the culprit.
These factors applies to all types of photography. Portrait, landscape, wildlife and etc.. Only through experience that I got to know about how to take good pictures. In recent months I've read quite a few articles. Well it did work the magic for me. My pictures are getting better and more pictures are actually nice.
Less photos deleted, more nice memories :D
No prize for guessing whose ass is that
xxx : Oh wow! That's a nice picture! What camera you use?I mean really. It doesn't matter what you use. I can use a 2.0MP camera phone and produce the same result above. Im not being lansi or anything. Its just my personal opinion on photography. Here is one thing, everybody can pick up a camera and snap but not everybody can see and snap like professional photographers do because all photos depends on the lighting and creativity. Whether it is bright enough or not, creative or not creative.
Sometimes an older digital camera with less megapixels is better than modern 10MP digital compact cameras. I can even prove this but my old Canon 3.2MP camera spoiled. And that was my first interest in photography and the performance of that camera is great. Plus, its a compact, easy to bring it everywhere. Kudos to my father who bought it.
What I am trying to say is, the skill of taking photographs is more important than camera equipments. I've seen pictures of compact cameras better than DSLR users including mine. Be it Canon or Nikon or Leica. The quality of the photo is as good as the photographer's imagination and skill. I did mentioned this in Facebook a few times in the past.
Its okay to have all the gear or camera you can get in the world if you are rich. What matters is which lens or camera to use in a particular situation or event.
After I bought my first DSLR, in fact is my first camera I bought for myself, I thought that I can take great pictures in that instant. Yes, it does but I've been using it for more than a year now and 70% of the pictures can't be use. It didn't look good to me. Now I started thinking, why are so many shots are ugly?
Angle, lighting, white balance, composition, exposure and focusing. All these factors need to be taken into account when taking a photograph. Sounds tough right? It is actually, very! This is why so many shots of mine are not usable. Its always either the white balance or the exposure the culprit.
These factors applies to all types of photography. Portrait, landscape, wildlife and etc.. Only through experience that I got to know about how to take good pictures. In recent months I've read quite a few articles. Well it did work the magic for me. My pictures are getting better and more pictures are actually nice.
Less photos deleted, more nice memories :DNo prize for guessing whose ass is that
In recent months, Nikon D90's price plummeted and EVERYBODY bought it. No doubt its a great camera and I want it badly then I think again. What for? I can't utilize it fully and yet I can still take wonderful photos with D60. All I need is a good lens and Im good.
Even professional photographers don't carry their heavy and expensive equipment around when they go for traveling.
Even professional photographers don't carry their heavy and expensive equipment around when they go for traveling.
As long as you know the limits of your camera and what settings is the best most situation then your photos will naturally turn out to be nice. Its the same thing as in cars, put a skillful driver in a Perodua Kelisa and he can reach a destination faster than a noobie driver in a Ferrari. Furthermore, if you get it right the first time, the less time or none at all in post processing(editing) your photos where photographers spend most of their time at. Just like in the photo above, no editing was done I promise and the colour turns out to be quite nice.
In fact, technology help us SO much that many factors can be ignored. Like the white balance. Just put AUTO and off you go. However, that is not always the case. What our naked eye see is different from what the camera sees. Sometimes in a dim yellow light lit room, we see yellow aye? Cameras will think is sunset. Therefore, more saturation is added, thus, a too-yellow-photo.
This is where basic photography skill comes in. A person who knows the situation and his camera well will have no problems of creating a good image out of it, even if hard. And this takes years of experience and a mindful of creativity.
A phrase that I read from kenrockwell.com, "a brush is just a tool for an artist". This too applies to photographers. We make images, not the camera. A camera is merely a tool.
I'm sorry for the bad english. There might be missing words but I'm sure you can figure it out :)
In fact, technology help us SO much that many factors can be ignored. Like the white balance. Just put AUTO and off you go. However, that is not always the case. What our naked eye see is different from what the camera sees. Sometimes in a dim yellow light lit room, we see yellow aye? Cameras will think is sunset. Therefore, more saturation is added, thus, a too-yellow-photo.
This is where basic photography skill comes in. A person who knows the situation and his camera well will have no problems of creating a good image out of it, even if hard. And this takes years of experience and a mindful of creativity.
A phrase that I read from kenrockwell.com, "a brush is just a tool for an artist". This too applies to photographers. We make images, not the camera. A camera is merely a tool.
I'm sorry for the bad english. There might be missing words but I'm sure you can figure it out :)
