Jere Landis
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Thanks DM for that, Russ does come up with some good stuff, in my opinion, and I enjoy him. I also look forward to your posts, although I have to study quite a while to draw the meaning out sometimes.
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Gear or technique?
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Jere Landis
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I've never spoken of Pentax, Pen, or pixels. Maybe you both need to keep up or drop from the race or maybe he speaks in riddles I don't understand.
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Jere Landis
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Well UH OK UH good one I guess.
They are obviously truths.
This is a gear forum, we talk about gear and what gear we like, what improvements we would like to see etc. (And "occationally" about gear we don't like
) there is no opposites in this. Like with other arts, different people have different opinions on which equipment serve them best, and will discuss this.
ARB1
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any good if he couldn't see the shot or didn't know how to take it. My vote is for visual talent and technique over gear.
I have friends that buy new golf clubs every year thinking that their game will be so much better with the latest and greatest but in the end they still suck.
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I have friends that buy new golf clubs every year thinking that their game will be so much better with the latest and greatest but in the end they still suck.
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Jere Landis
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I agree of course. I hope this thread continues long enough to develop some sort of semi consensus. It could never be unanimus, but maybe telling.
I've been thinking about this some more. I've started to think that it's the vision the photographer has (or any artist - I don't mean literal eyesight) more like an inner goal that can't really be explained. Then that person will use whatever technique they may have to learn, and find a way to get and/or use the gear that is needed to get to that inner vision they have. I think that is why so many on here, are so interested in gear...and I'd bet when not on here, interested in technique also.
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Like the Joker said: Why so serious?
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http://www.pbase.com/madlights
http://barriolson.aminus3.com/
Like the Joker said: Why so serious?
Jere Landis
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I think that makes sense.I've been thinking about this some more. I've started to think that it's the vision the photographer has (or any artist - I don't mean literal eyesight) more like an inner goal that can't really be explained. Then that person will use whatever technique they may have to learn, and find a way to get and/or use the gear that is needed to get to that inner vision they have. I think that is why so many on here, are so interested in gear...and I'd bet when not on here, interested in technique also.
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http://www.pbase.com/madlights
http://barriolson.aminus3.com/
Like the Joker said: Why so serious?
papillon_65
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of some of the best photo's from the Magnum archives, many of the shots are not even sharp, owe nothing to high ISO capability or focus speed or even format. A flick through it tells me that the photo's owe everything to composition, timing, light and imagination, in a nutshell, the photographer and not the camera and lens. This pretty much tells me everything I need to know. I buy better gear because I enjoy new cameras and lenses, do I need anything better than I have now? not really.
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