The voice inside you never sleeps, Portugal 2004
power more photos and buy less cameras! This is my call to you after I have seen the results of last poll . Finally, almost half of the participants have said the vote that they get a new camera for Christmas or have purchased yourself.
Almost a third has since then also a new lens, and another quarter new accessories. After all, there is the other side (also a quarter of the participants) who have a picture book can give. I think that's really the best part of my survey results, because of such books can be damned really learn much. The preoccupation with the photographic technique and all equipment will eventually not mean that they necessarily produce better pictures. Some great books has vorzuweisen example, a certain Elliott Erwitt whose photos I would like to send you herewith warmly. Most of you will know him or some of its bizarre images have been already, but I lead him on here because there is always a pleasure to leaf through his books. Especially his dogs photos are great, and wonderfully far away from all Schmusebildchen sentimental or family pet snapshots. Years ago, when I still had no high-tech equipment, I had it set me on a vacation in the Algarve in Portugal aims to also produce some good dogs pictures. Of course my two photos shown here are not comparable with those of Elliott Erwitt, but I'm happy with them. Sure I will not make the mistake and give you the number of trips, I had to do to get these two successful pictures ...
my photos would have been better if I had had, instead of the "compact Digiknipse" a more expensive camera? Certainly not. Or if I had had interchangeable lenses? No, definitely not. On the contrary, I probably would have been so busy with the settings of the camera and the lenses that I have some scenes would have simply overlooked or that I may not have been able to react quickly enough. The photo above from the "weaker" is one of two pictures that I could do in the situation at all on the fly. And already the second has become nothing more because the dog was then jumped directly. And the photo on the right could only be done in the brief moment when the dog jumped on the wall, and before his master herunterzog him again, because it poses a risk of the 70 meter high cliffs realized. Sometimes I think it's just a pity that the files have only the original resolution of three megapixels, because that is sufficient for a short term, but could not for a nice big print, is the frame itself. Well, you can not have everything, after all that time I had at least the Canon S1 IS that at the relevant time and was not cheap. These days you could buy with the money have a nice entry-level DSLR with 10 megapixels and kit lens - we do live almost in paradise for photographers, compared with earlier! But the S1 IS after all, already had a great zoom range, a wonderful image stabilizer, and she could even record videos in VGA format with sound. But "movies with digital cameras" is anyway a special issue to which I would soon come back in a different article.
Well, I would of course in 2004 and can still shoot with pure analog miniature films on my Minolta SLR, but I was of the advantages of digital photography a lot too "spoiled". Finally, I found it just great that you could make as many pictures as you wanted, and not on 24 or 36 images per film was limited. In addition, we could finally see immediately after recording on the camera monitor what had become of the photo. Of that I'm still as enthusiastic as ever. Of that I had in fact been dreaming ever since I started with photography, although I can still clearly remember the days when there were no cameras at all! Still, I had at that time dreamed and hoped that computer technology would come at some point as far as it is today.
But please not forget to: Keep it simple! I try again and again, not to be in love gear, but to pay attention to the quality of photos and To see all the pictures as living on much more than mere technical brilliance. Unfortunately, just keep come as exciting new announcements as the Olympus E-P1 in between ... The survey to running at full speed so, click with you, if you have not already done it! My justification for employment with the cameras is so regularly that I have the easiest-to-use camera viewfinder, which is the least in the way when it comes to focus on the environment and without much effort at the decisive moment matching in a image capture. And that's a good excuse to occupy themselves in moderate volume with new cameras, right?
Do not mess around with your photo gear too much, just a simple grave camera and head out on the street to take pictures! I'm sure you'll find a dog that will happily pose for you.
PS: I see that see on this site to happen at the time also photos of dogs. Also, no lap dog, I like the reportage. If your response now but already allergic to dogs or related images, then click the link simply will not start. ..
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