Is your equipment your priority?

Voyager said:
You left the wrong lens behind in the first place. :p

I'd sell the zoom and work with the prime.
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That is exactly what I have done, but I hope you could see the point behind my hypothetical situation.
 
Kaouthia said:
In the circumstances I listed, no, it's not possible, and a professional would not limit their abilities or options that much.
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You are the one that seems to be suggesting a 'professional' cannot manage to take pictures without a bag of £1000 lenses. Not me.
 
trencheel303 said:
That is exactly what I have done, but I hope you could see the point behind my hypothetical situation.
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At some point you will be up against a limitation of some sort and there is no 'perfect' tool for every job.

So work round it. Take a different picture - or none at all.
 
Voyager said:
You are the one that seems to be suggesting a 'professional' cannot manage to take pictures without a bag of £1000 lenses. Not me.
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No, I was the one that suggested a professional required that bag of lenses in order to be able to produce better results more consistently and under more different shooting circumstances (that are often beyond our control).

Voyager said:
So work round it. Take a different picture - or none at all.
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None at all, that'll keep paying clients happy :thumbs:

But, I will now listen to my own advice. I'm done discussing this, or anything else, with you.
 
Kaouthia said:
No, I was the one that suggested a professional required that bag of lenses in order to be able to produce better results more consistently and under more different shooting circumstances (that are often beyond our control).
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No. You suggested there was 'a reason the Nikon 55-200mm f/4.5-5.6 costs £181.99 and the 70-200mm f/2.8 VR costs £1627.99' - I suggested that, when used within their limitations, the difference was not worth paying for.
Kaouthia said:
None at all, that'll keep paying clients happy :thumbs:
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Urbex and paying customers?

Perhaps - but I suspect unlikely. Even hypothetically.
Kaouthia said:
But, I will now listen to my own advice. I'm done discussing this, or anything else, with you.
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Jolly good.
 
Voyager said:
Urbex and paying customers?
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I was the one who mentioned Urbex - not him. I presume he does photography for work, whereas I don't. Bit of a mixup there.

Either way I agree with him, this has gotten beyond a joke now so I am also out.
 
trencheel303 said:
I was the one who mentioned Urbex - not him. I presume he does photography for work, whereas I don't. Bit of a mixup there.
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No mix up on my part. He was just making a snide comment in replying to a suggestion I made to you in your 'hypothetical situation'.
 
Oh give it up will you!

Can you not manage to conduct a simple conversation without resorting to snide comments and insults?

It's not a points scoring exercise and I'm honestly not interested in the chest beating.
 
AliB said:
I don't know what it is about equipment but I've noticed on logging on that the number of people inhabiting the many and varied forums (fora?) fores on TP has changed in the last year.

In days of old I'd log on and the proportion of people in the "talk photography" forum would roughly equal the number in the "equipment" forum with the rest of happy campers spread around the various "Oh look, an actual picture" forums.

This morning at 7am there were 14 hardy souls in TP and 20 in equipment with all the others attracting 3 or 4.

So, is photography about the end product for you? is it about taking an image and seeing what you can produce in PP? or is it about collecting the best gear you can? and is that then enough or do you try to get the best out of your shinies?
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eye for composition first...
gear later
 
Im new here and my main reason for getting involved on here was to gain knowledge of getting better at what I love. I'm a hobbyist but passionate about my photos, I gained new kit to improve me not my pics, I feel that the kit makes it easier to get my photos to a better quality not a better standard. Any fool can press the shutter, capturing the image you wanted is a damn site harder. When I got a new lens, it excited me to take better photos.

As for critism, I tell my 2 young sons, always listen to advice, don't always take it. There is always some good and some bad. However, saying nothing when I ask for help alienates me from the good people I know you are, after all, i'm not going to sign up to a devil worship forum.

I'm hooked on here and what we all have. A love of PHOTOGRAPHY.
 
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