Comments on: Photographer More Important Than the Tools http://www.chinacoop.net/photoblog/photosophy/photographer-more-important-than-the-tools exploring reality through documentary photography Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:29:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cooper Strange http://www.chinacoop.net/photoblog/photosophy/photographer-more-important-than-the-tools/comment-page-1#comment-491 Cooper Strange Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:35:06 +0000 http://www.chinacoop.net/photoblog/?p=423#comment-491 Well, I am saying that and more. I think a lot of folks are just too scared of their cameras. Back when cameras were fully manual, they were already scared of them, and that was when they only had three or four controls. Now, we have dozens and dozens of adjustments we could make to this and that feature, and it is just dizzying. There are fundamental differences between film and digital, each having positives and negatives, but my main point is that the real fundamentals cross the film-digital boundary. And all those bells and whistles can be boiled back down to the basics. Once you have those basics, you begin to see the basics for what they really are: extras. Well, I am saying that and more. I think a lot of folks are just too scared of their cameras. Back when cameras were fully manual, they were already scared of them, and that was when they only had three or four controls. Now, we have dozens and dozens of adjustments we could make to this and that feature, and it is just dizzying.

There are fundamental differences between film and digital, each having positives and negatives, but my main point is that the real fundamentals cross the film-digital boundary. And all those bells and whistles can be boiled back down to the basics. Once you have those basics, you begin to see the basics for what they really are: extras.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.chinacoop.net/photoblog/photosophy/photographer-more-important-than-the-tools/comment-page-1#comment-490 Ryan Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:48:58 +0000 http://www.chinacoop.net/photoblog/?p=423#comment-490 That makes a ton of sense. I have big dreams in thinking about what I could do in the dark room with film and thinking that there is a whole lot more that can be done with a camera that doesn't need film. So understanding how the fundamentals can be translated and used with digital makes sense, if that's what your saying That makes a ton of sense. I have big dreams in thinking about what I could do in the dark room with film and thinking that there is a whole lot more that can be done with a camera that doesn’t need film. So understanding how the fundamentals can be translated and used with digital makes sense, if that’s what your saying

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