i suddenly felt that...
TS certainly has the passion for...
complaining and whining about other people lacking passion.
TS certainly has the passion for...
complaining and whining about other people lacking passion.
Annoying self-claim photographers.
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use DSLR or pin hole camera have nth to do with your passion. you passion is yours alone. cut them some slack.. i dun need a dslr to "feel" i love photography.
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I sit around sipping coffee n surf clubsnap all day, get paid good $ to buy a dslr that i let my 4 year old play while i use a holga. Now which one of us is insulting your passion? Who is the pitiful one?
TS . . . Chill.
I remember first going into photography at age 15, with, a compact film camera. Just shooting random events in my life (I had got it just because of an overseas mountain climbing expedition). I shot very selectively, sometimes taking 6 months to finish a roll of 36 exposures. The most basic camera, no settings whatsoever, only the shutter button and auto flash, fixed focal length. Then the cost of film developing became too much, I got my first digital camera, a superslim Konica Minolta Dimage Xg. Then my ideas were different. I never thought I would go into photography seriously. I just needed a small tool to record events.
Then, I begun to see things differently, and upgraded to prosumer (Olympus SP500UZ) as I wanted manual control. From there, it was anything goes. I was full of energy, fun spirit. I shot all kinds of random stuff. I set myself a target, each few months I would experiment on a genre or technique til I got it right. I shot almost everything. I felt a sense of release, satisfaction and spiritual fulfillment. I used that camera from end of 2005 to middle of 2008, it was only then which I got my first DSLR, Nikon D40 an entry level one.
Working with very basic and limiting hardware specs had taught me how to treat it as a challenge rather than a handicap, to produce good photos with limited specs.
Now almost everyone has a dslr, whether they shoot nicely or not. It's a social status. Equipment freaks are either collectors or using equipment as sort of an ego-inflating tool. One does not need a fantastic camera to get good photos. Well, yes a super slim won't be able to take as nice macros as a dslr with macro lens, or do long exposures (at that time). That would be the challenge, of using its technical limitations to produce great works of art. Without much technical control, one relies on their eyes to make art, rather than the camera itself. How to, using only the most basic functions produce something good.
Then, I begun to see things differently, and upgraded to prosumer (Olympus SP500UZ) as I wanted manual control. From there, it was anything goes. I was full of energy, fun spirit. I shot all kinds of random stuff. I set myself a target, each few months I would experiment on a genre or technique til I got it right. I shot almost everything. I felt a sense of release, satisfaction and spiritual fulfillment. I used that camera from end of 2005 to middle of 2008, it was only then which I got my first DSLR, Nikon D40 an entry level one.
Working with very basic and limiting hardware specs had taught me how to treat it as a challenge rather than a handicap, to produce good photos with limited specs.
Now almost everyone has a dslr, whether they shoot nicely or not. It's a social status. Equipment freaks are either collectors or using equipment as sort of an ego-inflating tool. One does not need a fantastic camera to get good photos. Well, yes a super slim won't be able to take as nice macros as a dslr with macro lens, or do long exposures (at that time). That would be the challenge, of using its technical limitations to produce great works of art. Without much technical control, one relies on their eyes to make art, rather than the camera itself. How to, using only the most basic functions produce something good.
Sion
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A passionate photographer with passion should be less passionate about complaining passionately other less passionate photographers being less passionate about having passion.
Sion
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Sion
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Best photo is having a XMM in foreground, mid-ground, background, low-ground and high-ground.
Anything else is irrelevant.
Question to TS. How old were you when you got your first DSLR? How long ago was that? How 'professional' are you now? Post some of your taken pictures and let us have a look at what it means by being passionate? I for one didn't pay for my DSLR myself. And so what does it proves? That I have no passion or that I am pathetic?
Why are you unhappy with the fact that youngsters get their DSLR without having to pay for it? You shoot your stuff, they shoot theirs. You said that you are a teenager yourself. It seems like you're pretty unhappy with how your life is till now. Guess what? That's life. They paid and got their camera one way or another. They can use it the way they want, auto or M. Why be bothered with how they got it, what they do with it or how short-lived their passions are.
Why are you unhappy with the fact that youngsters get their DSLR without having to pay for it? You shoot your stuff, they shoot theirs. You said that you are a teenager yourself. It seems like you're pretty unhappy with how your life is till now. Guess what? That's life. They paid and got their camera one way or another. They can use it the way they want, auto or M. Why be bothered with how they got it, what they do with it or how short-lived their passions are.
this thread like got steroids ..... 8 pages in 24hrs ......
i guess the overall message from everyone to TS is "why rag on other people who are richer but less passionate than yourself?"
just do your own thing , man .......
i guess the overall message from everyone to TS is "why rag on other people who are richer but less passionate than yourself?"
just do your own thing , man .......
Royale With Cheese
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Well said :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
I have to add on though, one might be full of passion but still cant take great pictures but doesnt mean their passion is low or whatever
Actually, the pioneer of street photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson had rich parents. And he's really good..
He is not passionate, he didn't have to save and scrimp for his Leica. ;(;(;(
Tangerine,
You never see here 8 pages already but yet i never say a word...
This thread in the beginning already started on the wrong note so let's not tarnish the meaning of 'True Photographer' here.
One more time, i hear people mention 'True Photographer' here in this thread.
I will Orh Pi SAI into your lens !!
Sion
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Actually, the pioneer of street photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson had rich parents. And he's really good..
Henri Cartier-Bresson where got good?
He didn't shoot this type of photos:
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