Famous Photographer Lottery

I had a friend who was an absolutely amazing photographer. I mean, she was good. She just used a regular $30 point and shoot camera without any zoom or any special features. A little kid camera, if you will. I asked her about this and she told me that her photography professor once told her that if she wanted to be a good photographer that she should just use a point and shoot camera. Because if she did this, she would have to position HERSELF in a position to take a good photo, and not rely on the camera. She would have to be bold and step right out and into the face of what she was photographing. You can not take a good photo with a 35mm camera if you are hiding. You can not even take a good photo with any camera if you are hiding. This is what the girl did. She was bold, and she would just walk up to anyone in the street and tell them that whe was going to photograph them . . and they would pose happily for her to take the photo. I am sure that it helped her cause that she was very beautiful, blond, had very large and well shaped breast, and a very direct and attractive personality. But, humor aside, I think the lesson still stands that it is the photographer and not the camera that makes for a good photograph.

Wade

Wade: I think that you are absolutely right in all regards. But if you feel like getting the most out of your images, if you want that picture perfect clarity, then buying a good camera will help you make the picture look clearer, larger, and whatever. The camera doesn't always make you a better photographer... It's that nowadays there's photoshop, and people edit the crap out of their photos, and they aren't real photographers, they are editors. The digital photography revolution has made people become "photographers" in a sense that if their picture looks bad, a crop here, and an intense adjustment there, and that's it, you've got yourself a nice picture. This is why we should have more respect for those film photographers, who don't usually get the chance to edit their photography all sorts of fancy ways with photo editing tools. Not to shoot all digital photographers down, because there are a seldom few, who don't do any different editing than you can do in a darkroom with photo editing tools.

Marina

Marina you said,
"This is why we should have more respect for those film photographers"

This was an excellent concept.

I take many photo and have only doctored a few of them. I feel the great enjoyment of taking photos is to shoot them. I mean "Shoot them" like shooting and animal. If I shoot them great than I am good predator.