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by Connaissance
4804 days ago
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This article is the best illustration possible of the saying: "You don't know what you don't know". Eg, the author's pics are pretty awful but he doesn't have the eye to see it. A while back, I was setting up a shot and trying different approaches for several minutes with my DSLR. A friend laughed at me, whipped out his phone, took a pic, and showed me an awful picture saying "See? What's taking you so long?". |
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But that's the authors point, or so it seems to me. That the majority of people can't see it. If you're showing your pics as a non pro to a pro then they'll probably find them terrible even if you used a large-format Hasselbad.
My interpretation is that it's about the essence of the image in most cases and not the actual technical detail of the image. The images we capture as novices are aide-memoires primarily and in the main. To a non-photog it rarely matters if the dynamic range is poor or there's a little aberration or a slight lack of focus or a bit of extra noise.
That said I often bemoan the lack of a faster camera, better flash, adjustable aperture, better lens ...