Are you a transplanted Southerner? Or is that expression commonly used in the Bay area?Next time he compliments your gear, you could just say, "Bless your heart!".
When a long time friend of mine the other day saw my latest print he told me that I have a very good camera. It could just have been a comment slightly out of place if it was just the once, but it isn’t. If my friend is to be believed I have a bunch of very good cameras but what he thinks of my photographic skills are still a mystery after about 45 years of knowing him since he is always praising my equipment.
To me this is a bit peculiar and I wonder if anyone else has come across someone like my friend?
Looks like you might want to speak kindly with your friend, educate him and ask: do brushes paint paintings, do bikes ride on their own, do cameras frame and take pictures?
Are you suggesting there are wrong Hasselblads and Leicas? Things may get ugly...
Are you a transplanted Southerner? Or is that expression commonly used in the Bay area?
When a long time friend of mine the other day saw my latest print he told me that I have a very good camera. It could just have been a comment slightly out of place if it was just the once, but it isn’t. If my friend is to be believed I have a bunch of very good cameras but what he thinks of my photographic skills are still a mystery after about 45 years of knowing him since he is always praising my equipment.
To me this is a bit peculiar and I wonder if anyone else has come across someone like my friend?
Are you a transplanted Southerner? Or is that expression commonly used in the Bay area?
When I read some of the posts here I think what incredible keyboards some of the members must have!
The ones with the best posts... well, I can't say for sure... but i would imagine -better quality keyboards than the average poster.
Had my friend been a stranger to photography and working in a darkroom it wouldn’t be weird but he has been taking pictures for longer than me and uses Leica and Hasselblad. The fact is that he has never complimented my work, just my equipment.
He is a close friend of mine and I’m not disturbed by it but I do find it a bit odd.
Are you suggesting there are wrong Hasselblads and Leicas? Things may get ugly...
In some respects - perhaps even many - digital photography, via cell phones especially, has really dumbed down the audience.
most of the gallery photos shown here highlight both the camera and film used
In some respects - perhaps even many - digital photography, via cell phones especially, has really dumbed down the audience.
This is a very old dynamic in photography, though, going back at least to “You push the button, we’ll do the rest”. I think it’s a mistake to pin it on digital or phone cameras; indeed I suspect it’s universal to “gear” activities of all types. It’s just easier to chase better equipment than to do the hard work of building actual skills.Yup, that's understandable - easy come, easy go and no craft involved, hence the only variable and reason that others take good pictures: camera!
This part I don’t really see. Most people appreciate the image as what they see and don’t care about the “craft” aspects; lowering the barrier to entry means more people make more images, of course, but it doesn’t inherently change the viewer’s perception when the viewer is someone not already engaged with the process.And too much ease of use really dumbs down/degrades the experience/craft of it - be it music, movies or whatever. Convenience as harm.
If someone compliments my camera I would be very proud but nobody does. They all think I use outdated dinonsaur cameras. Or in another word "JUNK".
Yes. It's frustrating.When a long time friend of mine the other day saw my latest print he told me that I have a very good camera. It could just have been a comment slightly out of place if it was just the once, but it isn’t. If my friend is to be believed I have a bunch of very good cameras but what he thinks of my photographic skills are still a mystery after about 45 years of knowing him since he is always praising my equipment.
To me this is a bit peculiar and I wonder if anyone else has come across someone like my friend?
But he could have said, "Those are wonderful photos, and you must also have a really good camera."Isn't the faulty logic that is being used because the underlying premise is that a camera is a machine and the better the machine the better the picture it is capable of taking?
If you drive faster than most then it is because you have the better car and you may be able to do it more safely because the car has a braking and steering system that is genuinely superior to most cars
Usually the car and camera is more expensive than most cars and cameras as well
In that sense your friend's statement does not seem so strange to me.
That's the conclusion you have to come to.Who cares.
That's the conclusion you have to come to.
It's really more of a suggestion on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
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