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Sorry for the whinging post, but I just needed a bit of a vent to like minded people.
Everyone knows that photography is an expensive hobby, however there's always been that age old adage of "Only a poor workmen blames his tools" ... Which Is true...to a degree.
I agree that skill is a huge part of it but also there's only so much someone can do with a £100 camera and kit lens , compared to someone carrying £1000's worth of kit , people with the money are going to always have the advantage as no matter how good you are if you get two people with the same skills and a kit lens can't compete with L glass.
If someone really knows what they are doing , and has the money for good kit , then fair do's to them , but I've spent years , really getting into photography and I believe that I've improved a lot from where I started , I've got some shots that I'm damn proud of despite the fact that the majority of my lenses are plastic fantastic and kit lenses.
What really makes me sad is to see that some people can just throw money at something , and get mad when they're not taking fantastic photos straight away , I'm getting tired of seeing whinging posts on various places such as forums , facebook and flickr etc of people posting images and ranting at why they're not perfect , when they have such a good expensive camera , and how crap the camera is etc.
These are photos with beginner mistakes such as exposure and focus... yet read the meta and they've been taken on hugely expensive cameras and L glass etc , the people who throw the money around and think that an expensive camera will make them a good photographer , no effort needed.
It gets me so sad aswell to see people who think they can throw £1000 at kit , then call themselves a professional photographer too.. I've seen so many "professionals" in my field that make such horrendous mistakes on photos they are charging people for (Terrible editing , bad focus , blur etc) but they've got all the expensive gear , shop , website etc so people go to them.
I would love to be a profesional photographer , I would love to buy L glass , Full Frame and really work at it... and I know I'm not alone in this , but it just makes me really sad to see people who just don't seem to care about learning anything , because they think they can throw more money at it and that will be the answer.
It's different when you want to buy a better lens because you've practiced , learnt and know that you've met the limits of your current Lens and you want something sharper, something faster etc.
to someone who's just throwing loads of money at something and buying the most expensive one they can , because they think having an expensive camera is all that makes a photographer
Sorry guys
Rant over.
Everyone knows that photography is an expensive hobby, however there's always been that age old adage of "Only a poor workmen blames his tools" ... Which Is true...to a degree.
I agree that skill is a huge part of it but also there's only so much someone can do with a £100 camera and kit lens , compared to someone carrying £1000's worth of kit , people with the money are going to always have the advantage as no matter how good you are if you get two people with the same skills and a kit lens can't compete with L glass.
If someone really knows what they are doing , and has the money for good kit , then fair do's to them , but I've spent years , really getting into photography and I believe that I've improved a lot from where I started , I've got some shots that I'm damn proud of despite the fact that the majority of my lenses are plastic fantastic and kit lenses.
What really makes me sad is to see that some people can just throw money at something , and get mad when they're not taking fantastic photos straight away , I'm getting tired of seeing whinging posts on various places such as forums , facebook and flickr etc of people posting images and ranting at why they're not perfect , when they have such a good expensive camera , and how crap the camera is etc.
These are photos with beginner mistakes such as exposure and focus... yet read the meta and they've been taken on hugely expensive cameras and L glass etc , the people who throw the money around and think that an expensive camera will make them a good photographer , no effort needed.
It gets me so sad aswell to see people who think they can throw £1000 at kit , then call themselves a professional photographer too.. I've seen so many "professionals" in my field that make such horrendous mistakes on photos they are charging people for (Terrible editing , bad focus , blur etc) but they've got all the expensive gear , shop , website etc so people go to them.
I would love to be a profesional photographer , I would love to buy L glass , Full Frame and really work at it... and I know I'm not alone in this , but it just makes me really sad to see people who just don't seem to care about learning anything , because they think they can throw more money at it and that will be the answer.
It's different when you want to buy a better lens because you've practiced , learnt and know that you've met the limits of your current Lens and you want something sharper, something faster etc.
to someone who's just throwing loads of money at something and buying the most expensive one they can , because they think having an expensive camera is all that makes a photographer
Sorry guys
Rant over.
I figured I'd save up what I can and try to go full frame, last week I finally did and got a 6D, not because I think wow I'll now be awesome but because I really have struggled with low light and street stuff is what I want to shoot mostly. Anyhow it's the best thing I've done in ages but looking back I would do the same route again, learning from my mistakes, keeping a passion to better improve on skills and not pressing buttons to do the work for me..
