15 Truths about Photography

by Miserere
taken from here


1. All camera brands build great cameras.
2. All camera brands build crap cameras.
3. A good photographer will take great pictures with a crappy camera. A bad photographer won’t take a good picture with any camera.
4. Film is just as good as digital. It’s also just as bad.
5. Expensive lenses don’t take better pictures than cheap ones, they simply let you take pictures in some circumstances where a cheap lens wouldn’t.
6. Most cheap lenses are better than you are a photographer.
7. Don’t buy a new camera until you’ve hit all its limitations and have found your photography restricted by them for at least 3 months. Do this, and you may never have to buy another camera ever again.
8. The grass is always sharper and its green channel displays increased tonal range on the other side of the fence. (Meaning: Everybody else’s pictures will always look better than yours, and everybody else’s camera will always seem better than yours.)
9. There is no such thing as a photograph that isn’t postprocessed.
10. You can tell how good a photographer is by the size of his waste-paper basket (or recycle bin).
11. Most of your pictures suck. So do everyone else’s.
12. If somebody tells you that their camera is fantastic and every picture comes out perfect, they’re lying (see Truth #11).
13. When you improve/upgrade your camera and lens system by 500%, your photographs increase in artistic quality by approximately 0%.
14. The more you complain about your camera system, the worse your photos are.
15. The artistic and technical quality of your latest photo is directly proportional to the number of activations on your shutter.

just cos i'm in a photography phase now~

Ken,
it's really you.

Labels: photography

Ok so I went to saikang for Crimmeh for her Irie with Spanner shoot~
I brought along my family's old Canon 300D for a trial run~
It's liek 6 years old but this is the first time I've brought it out >.o

AND IT'S TOTAL LOVE!



Cos all the pics have only gone through minimal editing~
Only now have I managed to bring out some of all that hidden power D:
Makes me sad >.o
Managed to get great bokeh~
But ended up mutilating alot of shots cos I didn't realise the camera was focusing on the background XD
I blame the small LCD screen XD

Not a bad day~
Learnt alot on makeup from Hal~
Bought a pair of blue sunglasses for $10
A pair of shorts from OP for $43
And BB cream from Skinfood for $38~
High expenditure today *_*

ken|2009 productions

Labels: diary, omigee, photography, Turning Points

@yuchi I didn't know that o.o Did I? But aww.. Those second years shouldn't be too bothered >.o

@kai 'mazing ain't I? ;D

Now~ We've just gotten the notification that PSPs are banned in all camps~ AMAZING O_O
Everyone is gonna die of boredom D:

Some interesting quotes that come from various sources XD
1.) Once you've read the manual, read it again because you will have missed half of what's in there. Take it to bed as your bedtime reading. Make notes. Pretend you have a test tomorrow.

2.) Some people expect printer perfect images straight out of the camera. I expect a 20% salary increase next year. We're both headed for disappointment.

Strange that they both come from a Canon 10D User Guide by Bob Atkins XD

Onto the diary section~
Yesterday, I went with Ivan and Elias to the IT Show~
Horrible place that was ._.
Approximately trice as packed as Cosfest on any year.
Went around with them to all the camera booths cos Elias is interested in getting one~ Then went up to check on portable hard drives for Ivan. The prices are dropping O_O! After that we split, and I looked around the entire floor~ How is that DDR3 ram so cheap?! And blah and blah~ Went to meet Darrell(hope I didn't miss out a letter this time >.o)~ I went twice in the period of time I was there, and sitting he was every time ._.

So NOW! My first picture in a long time~
It was a difficult decision. Between this and my scab =/


Ken,
Kicking some chopsticks

Labels: diary, photography