Contax 139 Quartz, Asahi Super-Takumar 55mm f/1. Let’s look at how this is different (and how it’s similar) when I’m shooting film. My cameras are decades old and I’m doing just fine. Think one body one lens. Recently I described how I keep my digital photography approach simple and as straightforward as possible by simplifying lens choice, camera settings, adjustments whilst shooting, editing and processing. Find something you love and stick with it. If you are on the technology treadmill, in some ways you will limit yourself simply by having to study your gear more than you study your subjects. And when I’m actually working I don’t have to waste time thinking about, or looking at, my equipment.
So what does this mean? It means that when I “grab my gear” and “head out the door” I don’t have to spend any time thinking about what I’m going to use. For the Hasselblad, I own exactly two lenses, but use the 80mm about 99% of the time.
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Specialist in capturing everything from the heart to my lens Professional and personal Events, photo. They are light, small, simple and unobtrusive. Keep it Simple Baby Photography, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Related Post: Natural Light Photography (11 Easy to Implement Tips) 6. Compare that to backlight, which adds a lot of drama: Backlight is a lot more dramatic than frontlight. The objective of any process is to deliver the simplest possible outcome. Frontlight is like that a bit more subtle. For my Leica, I own exactly two lenses, a 35mm and a 50mm. The KISS principle is also offered in two other forms (for those who feel delicate about the inclusion of the word stupid): Though both phrases technically introduce an a into the acronym they both deliver the same message as keep it simple, stupid. I use the same cameras I’ve used for YEARS. The best equipment is the equipment you don’t have to think about. When I think about the photographers that are most interesting to me, or those that are most significant in the history of photography, they are people who were painfully simple when it came to gear. The bad news? We have a multitude of choices when it comes to gear. Today, in the wild and wooly world of technology we have a multitude of choices when it comes to gear.
After all, the first thing we do is “grab our gear” and “head out the door,” which is what we are about to do, or better yet, what we have already done….ĭo you want the good news or the bad news? I figured it would be best to get the gear situation out of the way right up front.