Tip of the Month
Digital Photography changes quickly and significantly. Keeping up with these changes is important. You have to update your hardware and software, and you have to learn how to use all the new features. Failure to do so means you will soon find yourself behind the curve, wondering what happened and unable to create images that competes with the work of other photographers.
Digital Photography changes quickly and significantly. Keeping up with these changes is important. You have to update your hardware and software, and you have to learn how to use all the new features. Failure to do so means you will soon find yourself behind the curve, wondering what happened and unable to create images that competes with the work of other photographers.
However, it is also important to know how much updating is enough. You do not need to update your software and hardware daily, weekly or even monthly. Keeping up with changes and improvements is important, but so is going out and creating new photographs, something that can be done even if you do not have the latest, and supposedly best, camera or equipment.
In the end it is important to keep in mind what our goal is. Our goal is to create fine art photographs. As such, our goal is to first and foremost express ourselves. Our goal is to express our emotions and share with our audience not only what we saw but also, and more importantly, what we felt when we create photographs in the field.
Sharing our emotional response to the scenes we photograph is not related to having the latest camera, software or equipment. It is related to being passionate about the subjects we photograph. It is related to the inspiration we feel when we photograph. And it is related to knowing what we want to share with our audience and how we want to share it: our personal style, our vision in a word.
In doing so, the equipment, the camera and the software we use are tools. They are facilitators. They make doing what we do possible, and as time goes by they enable us to do this better and better by giving us more and more control. However, without inspiration and passion, these tools will only allow us to do a good technical job. Tools alone will not communicate emotions and passion. For that, we need to go out there and let go for a minute of the constant upgrading process that we can so easily fall prey to.
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