Can one take good product photos without good material?
It is not entirely certain that the equipment makes the photographer. But the photo equipment certainly contributes to it... at least in part! In this blog post, you will discover the very particular relationships that unite photographers with their equipment.
Is photography closely linked to photo equipment?
In this blog post, you will discover the very particular relationships that unite photographers with their equipment. Some rely on the latest technologies, others are guided by their intuition. Two radically different methods that produce good results.
Talent is obviously above material contingencies but with very good photo equipment, it will express itself even better, if not simply express itself. Henri Cartier-Bresson worked with a Leica, Vincent Munier with the latest Nikon Nikkor telephoto lenses, and Usain Bolt is not breaking his tennis records!
Talent is obviously above material contingencies but with very good equipment it will be expressed even better!
We agree, these talented artists would stay talented with low-end equipment, but why be masochistic and work with less good material because you have talent?
There are as many different ways to take photographs as there are to do your shopping! With equipment that is very simple or very complex, very expensive or very affordable. Likewise, some advanced techniques such as Focus Stacking can be reproduced manually, but they take a lot longer.
So what goes on in the minds of those who want to buy a very expensive camera lens and, conversely, of those who say that the equipment does not make the photographer.
We all dream of leaving an imprint in the history of photography... Or more modestly to provide emotions to the few people with whom we will share our photos. We are social beings and the need for recognition is part of our Maslow pyramid.
Photographers, we all dream... or almost, sometimes secretly, of this or that lens, this or that equipment because it is sometimes not fashionable to suggest that we would only make beautiful photos with this or that camera.
A modern figures, modern photo equipment
The best photographers would certainly take beautiful images with modest photo equipment, but they very often use dream equipment. Why would they do otherwise?
We can't imagine for a second that Michelangelo worked with oxidized marbles, that Leonardo da Vinci used the dullest colors. Why would they do it? Young people like Aliocha Boi like to play with the perspectives, the lights, the lines of the La Défense district.
With modern figures, modern equipment.
Exemplary careers of photographers
We will end this blog post by telling the story of this couple of photographers, united in life as well as in business. Different profiles and backgrounds but a common passion for photography.
Their testimony is touching in its sincerity and candor. Yves has been a photographer since he was a teenager, he won the global “Photo” magazine competition at the age of 23, then at the age of 25 he made his debut at Harcourt under the wing of Pierre Anthony Allard, he then traveled around the world, attended workshops with famous photographers such as Peter Lindberg or Paolo Roversi.
Autodidacts
Johanna comes from the fields of communication and well-being, and she discovered the profession of photographer by attending shootings.
Their vision of photography is quite simple: Yves is a photographer touched by emotions. If he photographs someone, it is because that person aroused his curiosity by what they emit. He focuses on his art photos, he prints his favorites, makes them mature slowly in order to prepare an exhibition (probably in 2016 or early 2017).
He recognizes that photography has allowed him to thrive: “it is really a field of photography that is humanly rewarding and exciting, both in terms of emotions and in the joy and happiness energies generated.”
In conclusion
For Yves and Johanna, the constraints related to photo equipment are not part of their concerns. They express themselves with candor and are above all guided by pleasure. When you ask them what their preference is, they tell you that their heart goes out to silver, but that digital technology wins out because of its simplicity.
A simplicity that PackshotCreator Bring since 15 years in product photography.
