Poll: ONE thing that would make your pictures better

[jonoslack]

Didn't express myself well enough; I meant that some people seem to be born with perfect pitch, and others like me are tone deaf; there doesn't seem to be much I can do about it -- so, for some people, musical composition and appreciation is much easier -- easier to become a genius.

Hmm
you've heard of 'cloth ears' . . . well, I've long believed in the concept of 'cloth eyes'. Lots of people are colour blind, which might be construed as the same thing?

 

[jonoslack]

I've just looked at the results.

(I didn't vote myself, because, as stated I don't think any of those things are guaranteed to improve my photography - we need a 'none of these' button)

Still, not a single person has voted for better camera equipment, which is fascinating considering the terrible outbursts of GAS around here.

Should one construe that although we all like to buy new kit, none of us really believes that it will improve our photography?

boys toys indeed!

 

[Ben Rubinstein]

I don't think any real photographer believes that the equipment will make their vision better. What most do believe is that it will make their achieving that vision easier.

It's like the old crack that amatuers discuss cameras and lenses while pro's talk about bags and tripods. Most all purchases by serious photographers are simply to make their life easier...

 

[jonoslack]

I don't think any real photographer believes that the equipment will make their vision better. What most do believe is that it will make their achieving that vision easier.

Ah, but the proposition was that it would improve their 'photography' not their 'vision'. I don't think of it as the same thing.

It's like the old crack that amatuers discuss cameras and lenses while pro's talk about bags and tripods. Most all purchases by serious photographers are simply to make their life easier...

:ROTFL:
I hadn't heard that one before . . . I have a nice new bag coming from FOGG, I've just been tracking it, unfortunately the french post office seem to like it as well (it's currently in mid-pyrenees).

Ben - I'm sorry to hear about your legs -

 

[Ben Rubinstein]

How do you seperate photography and vision Jono? Is the definition of the former just the technical aspects? If so then why would books and workshops be relevant? I'd understood it that the umbrella of photography traditionally covered both the vision and the methods used to actualise that vision.

To be honest, I always see the phrase 'photography' to belittle what is great about the vision of great art achieved with a camera. Kinda like calling an artist 'painter'. Gives the impression that the greatness achieved is only due to their prowess at the technical aspects of the making of the piece.

 

[jonoslack]

How do you seperate photography and vision Jono? Is the definition of the former just the technical aspects? If so then why would books and workshops be relevant? I'd understood it that the umbrella of photography traditionally covered both the vision and the methods used to actualise that vision.

To be honest, I always see the phrase 'photography' to belittle what is great about the vision of great art achieved with a camera. Kinda like calling an artist 'painter'. Gives the impression that the greatness achieved is only due to their prowess at the technical aspects of the making of the piece.

Hi Ben
yep - I think that's how I separated it, at least, 'photography' would include technical aspects which 'vision' would not. as might books or workshops

 

[cam]

:ROTFL:
I hadn't heard that one before . . . I have a nice new bag coming from FOGG, I've just been tracking it, unfortunately the french post office seem to like it as well (it's currently in mid-pyrenees).

ooh! does that mean you'll be putting up your old one for sale???

first dibbs!

 

[jonoslack]

ooh! does that mean you'll be putting up your old one for sale???

first dibbs!

Sorry to disappoint you cam - I like the first one so much (for my leica kit) that I was getting a bigger one for the dSLR gear

 

[cam]

Sorry to disappoint you cam - I like the first one so much (for my leica kit) that I was getting a bigger one for the dSLR gear

okay. spit it out then -- which one? let me lie vicariously

 

[laj0lla1]

patient may help .

 

[Georg Baumann]

less rain...