On Aug 8, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > It has been said many times that abundance of equipment can suppress > the [necessity for] creativity. Or, maybe the opposite is correct: > lack of proper equipments boosts up the creativity.
I completely disagree. Equipment and creativity are completely orthogonal. If anything, the ever expanding abilities of modern cameras provide me with many wonderful opportunities for creativity as it is now possible for me to get photographs that were practically unimaginable not that long ago. Handheld, ISO 16,000 at 1/10th of a second? The biggest challenge is generally being able to focus in that light. Being able to shoot without a flash, in ridiculously low light has opened up a tremendous range of photo opportunities. Autofocus allows me to shoot from the hip and have a decent chance of getting the shot in focus. If I put a macro lens on my camera, a wold of detail shots opens up to me that I might not get with a standard prime. Putting some limitation on what you can do, then working around that can often stimulate creativity, but that's as much because it forces you to focus on a much smaller range of the myriad of possibilities. Shooting for a few weeks, or months, with a single focal length will teach you a lot about seeing in a focal length, and when and how you want to use a zoom. But, if you actually learn from those lessons, then afterwards you should be no more creative with a single focal length than you are with a zoom. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
