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You Must Have a Good Camera
It is absolutely correct that you do not have to have an excellent camera to take excellent photos. It certainly helps in a few ways -- but the quality of the camera is not what makes the photographer. The considerations a professional photographer takes into mind include things such as lighting, composition, shooting at just the right moment, throwing away dozens of inferior photos. Think about the great photos you are already familiar with: 1) The photo of Marilyn Monroe standing on a grating as her dress billows up. When this was first published in Life Magazine many years ago (when I was a kid), it appeared on the righthand page. When you turned the photo over, there were dozens and dozens of tiny photos that the photographer had taken in order to get that perfect one. 2) The photo of the Vietnamese general (I think it was a general) firing a gun at the head of a Vietnamese kneeling prisoner. This surely one of the two or three most horrible and enduring images of the Vietnam War. Another was the photo of the young girl who, naked, was running towards the camera after having been burned with napalm. When you see this photo, you can NEVER forget the look of agony on her face. Both of these photos were taken at exactly the right moment. (So, for that matter, was the photo of Marilyn Monroe.) 3) Think of the photo of the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima, or the photo of Huey Newton, sitting with his weapon in a wicker chair. These are about composition. Without the right composition, these would not have been nearly as arresting as they are. Yes, the Huey Newton photo's composition was simple and straightforward. But that was one of the things that made it electrify the white community across the nation. A good photographer knows many technical tricks of the trade, including how the angle at which a photo is taken will affect the viewer's emotional response to the subject, how to make certain areas of the photo sharp and clear so as to focus attention on those areas, while other parts of the photo are blurred and hence less the focus of attention, etc. It isn't the camera, though an excellent camera helps. It is primarily the photographer who makes the difference. |
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