Comments on: Expensive Equipment Alone Does NOT Make a Good Photographer

By: photography

photography — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:24:22 +0000

Thanks, I enjoyed your post immensely. It’s nice to see someone writing something worth reading

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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:05:04 +0000

[...] to the vision of the artist. To paraphrase Jodi Friedman’s recent blog post at MCP Actions Blog, A professional camera does not a professional photographer [...]

By: Kirsty-Abu Dhabi

Kirsty-Abu Dhabi — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:41:01 +0000

I’m totally with you – I never get pics of my whole family so at an event recently I handed my old D80 to a guy with a D300 saying “I thought I’d ask you to take a pic of my family as you look like you know what to do” oh no – big mistake – he took 3 photos and not one was in focus and I was gutted. a good camera means nothing…

By: JM

JM — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:39:53 +0000

I’m so glad someone mentions this every now and then! As the end quote on all my email states:
“If you buy a camera you’re a photographer. If you buy a piano…well, you just bought a piano” it is so appropriate nowadays when everyone has a digital camera.
I know many who have purchased the latest and the greatest and have NO IDEA how to use the equipment–as an example one person I know still has the camera’s flash pop up whenever light is low…
Anyway, great post.

By: Hee hee! «

Hee hee! « — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:03:54 +0000

[...] May 29, 2009 by Mim Reading my usual blogs this morning, I had a little giggle at this, on the MCP actions blog [...]

By: honey

honey — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:47:19 +0000

jodi, your last comment is so true. I ended up doing the whole yearbook because i have such a good camera. I love to volunteer but my husband swore if he woke up at 3am and saw me cloning zits off a 5th grader we don’t even know one more time …!!! Hours of your actions … I would be better off (much less work) running the pta!