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If you buy an expensive camera with expensive lenses, you will be able to take such photos, won't you?
by codedokode 2y ago
If you buy an expensive camera with expensive lenses, you will be able to take such photos, won't you?
- radlad 2y agoIn fact, you can take such photos with a cheap camera and cheap lenses if you are skilled. No, equipment does not make a photograph. (source: I own expensive cameras. Taking good photographs is still hard.) Time and place matter. Your subject matters. Your composition matters. Your lighting matters. When it's done well, the viewer doesn't realize this.
- shagie 2y agoI love Ted Orland's panorama photographs - https://www.anseladams.com/products/tree-in-snowstorm-yosemite-valley https://www.anseladams.com/products/tree-in-snowstorm-yosemi... and https://www.freestylephoto.com/making-holga-panoramas https://www.freestylephoto.com/making-holga-panoramas While he shoots with the cheapest of toy cameras, he is very skilled. > 1966, Ted enrolled in as a fledgling photographer in Ansel Adams' Yosemite Photography Workshop --an event which markedly changed the course of his artistic life. He returned to Yosemite as Ansel's workshop assistant the following year, and in 1970 moved to Carmel to work fulltime as Ansel's Assistant and printer of Adams' Yosemite Special Edition Prints. Ted also returned for fifteen seasons as an Instructor at Ansel's Yosemite Workshops.
- sdenton4 2y agoOnly if you get into the right place at the right time and use your tools well...
- robinsonb5 2y agoErnest Hemingway: Good pictures, what camera do you use? Irving Penn: What typewriter do you use?
- SkyPuncher 2y agoMaybe. There's a technical aspect around camera and photo settings. This is largely objective. In certain conditions, certain settings deliver certain qualities. Then, there's a subjective side. Framing, composition, other artistic decisions.