What is your favorite basic filter?
Buying new gear doesn't automatically make your pictures better. Learning to use what you have already will.
Matthew
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
MLKstudios wrote: All photo tools are personal choices. After you learn the camera, then you'll know if you need a macro, or a polarizer, or a tripod, or a telephoto lens, or a wide angle lens, or a bigger bag, or whatever. Let those things evolve.
Buying new gear doesn't automatically make your pictures better. Learning to use what you have already will.
Matthew
Not if your a paparazzi who NEEDS the grainy shots of Paris (the futatrix, not the city) then that 800mm lens your magazine buys you will help better real fast.
I actually agree. Even I'll go so far as to say a new lens will make you worse (till you learn to use it that is).
"One camera, one lens and one film"
What he meant was, anything else is a distraction to your photography.
While I understand his point, and it should be considered. I also think you can be more creative with the right tools (ex. lenses). But the tools YOU need, may not be the same tools someone else needs.
The gear you choose along the way affects your shooting style, and vis-versa. For example, after you buy a macro (for something specific you want to do with it), you'll end up taking more close up pictures. Same is true for any other focal length. It changes how YOU see the world around you.
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
I NEED a 200-400 f/4
Anyone feeling the NEED to buy me one drop me a line.
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