Re: PineCoon

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:21:22 -0700, Jitze <couperus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:29:11 -0400, tony cooper
<tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:52:58 -0700, "Skitt" <skitt99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Purl Gurl wrote:

Some here enjoy periodically talking about animals
around and in our homes. I know Jitze and Skitt
will enjoy this with their being photo buffs.

I think you have me mixed up with someone else -- Tony, perhaps. I used to
be a photo buff, but these days all I do is occasionally look at some buff
photos.

I take a lot of photos, but I am humbled tonight. At tonight's camera
club meeting, the members brought out their shots for critiques by
some professional photographers. So many great shots, but so many
taken with equipment that is far beyond what I would spend on
equipment. A camera store owner gave a quick review of the new Nikon
D700. $3,500 for the body and one basic lens, and another $500 for
the flash. And that's a discounted price.


Yabbut, having expensive top-of-the-line gear in no way
compensates for (lack of) talent. I can personaly vouch
for that...


I've always maintained that the photographer's eye is the most
critical element in photography. Some people have the ability to see
what will be a good shot, and some don't see that shot. Even in
post-processing, the eye determines how the image can be cropped for
the most effect.

Where the equipment comes into play is in the ability to capture what
the eye sees. In many shots, any decent combination of equipment will
capture the scene. But, when you see an osprey swooping in to the
nest high up in a dead tree, the 55mm or even the 200mm lens just
isn't going to record what the eye knows to be a good shot.

I don't yearn for more megapixels or the full-frame D700 body, but I
do yearn for the long lenses that allow the equipment to capture what
my eye sees. Or the dedicated macro lens that captures more than the
eye sees.

I wandered around the tables at the camera club's critique night
looking at what others were producing as their brag shots.
Invariably, the photos that grabbed my attention were photos where the
photographer had seen a quite ordinary setting and found something in
that setting that became the central theme by framing* or by cropping.
The eye at work.

*For the non-photographer, I don't mean putting the photograph in a
frame. I mean framing the scene in the viewfinder of the camera.

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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