Good Camera vs Good photography

Amateurs (that included me too) tend to have this notion that unless you have a high profile camera you can’t produce good photos. Well that’s not entirely correct. I mean you might have the greatest bat with you but you can’t score a handful until you have the talent to do so. Same goes with photography too, you might be the owner of one of the lavish and highly speculated DSLR’s in the industry but still to produce a marvelous shot you got to have that creative edge.

Having a good camera is undoubtedly an upper hand, you can customize your requirements as you like such as aperture, focal length, shutter speed, ISO speed etc. A tripod stand with a variety of lenses can add even more charm to the shot. Then it seems like all you need is to select the view and the camera does the rest. And here lies the main thing, deciding the view. For it you need to have the perfect artistic and photographic eye; no camera or lens is the perfect alternative for this.

Till date all the experiences I had as an amateur photographer and the views obtained from pro’s or semi pro’s is that , the camera matters least, it’s your approach towards a particular sight that eventually results to a masterpiece. And the testimonial to this fact is photographers like Ansel Adams, who with no technical sophistication whatsoever produced some unique photographs all the way back in 1940, which even method photographers of this modern age fail to replicate. This illustration signifies that no matter what the camera you are using its your creative edge that matters. Its like that you might have the best and flawless guitar in the world, but your music needs some basic fixes. All these are applicable for art also, no what medium or brush you use, the skill definitely matters.

In short, I don’t disagree that having a good camera has its own benefits but it’s not always the criteria for a jaw dropping shot. Everybody can take pictures but a few makes art; so it’s one’s innovative sect that creates a appreciable shot rather than the instrument, at least I think so. What about you?