Den 25. sep. 2005 kl. 17.50 skrev Tom Reese:
The good photographer needs to know his subject, as well as his tool,
and the former is the most important. That´s why I don´t like
indications that a good tool is all you need. A good photographer
may get better pictures with less equipment, because he knows how
to use the limitations for his purpose.
Knowledge of your subject will put you in the right place at the
right time.
Having the right tools and knowing how to use them will get you the
rest of
the way. You have to consider the context of this discussion. We were
talking about shooting eagles in flight. I know from experience
that it's
hard enough to keep them in the viewfinder when they're zooming
around.
Manually focusing and tracking wild birds in flight is an extremely
frustrating nearly impossible task. You never know where they're
going next.
They move too fast and their direction changes too often. You only
have a
moment to get the shot before they're gone. A photographer with less
equipment will set up on a tree and wait. He'll get shots of eagles
but he
won't get the shots we're talking about.
You are wrong. Before that we were discussing content, and although
the technicalities of the eagle pictures are brilliant the content as
such is not very impressive.
DagT
