I read this great article the other day about the worthlessness of megapixels. Ok, it does matter when you’re using your old 2.0 megapixel Canon S200 and trying to crop and blow up 8×10 prints, but overall, megapixels don’t affect quality. I’ve been saying this all along. Fancy cameras and lots of megapixels don’t make you a better photographer (says I with my new Rebel XT). I back this up by pointing out what a truly awesome photographer Sprinkles is, whether he’s using an SLR or a tiny point and shoot. (If you’re wondering who Sprinkles is, it’s related to donuts which is related to someone who is very academic about the pronunciation of his name. You can’t mispronounce Sprinkles, so now he’s stuck with it as his forever bluebirdy blog moniker.)
Only Sprinkles could make a shot from the inside of my sedan interesting.
Here are all the great photos from our Second Annual Fall Down & Go Boom ski trip to Tahoe:
The other thing about 2007 is that everyone gets new blog identities. If you don’t like yours, post a comment that I can delete.
Totally random thought-trail prompted me to look up your old blog only to find you just moved here. Weird.
I love my XT. I hated all those little point-click digitals that make “civilians” think they are photographers. Full control without all the costly film to deter experimentation.
I actually would like to talk to you sometime about careers in UI (that was the thought-trail). I’m seriously thinking of getting out of Landscape Architecture and go for Info Architecture. Landscape is so low-tech its frustrating.
Cute bird. My cat could be entertained for hours.
j-man
Since when were photographers not civilians? Do photographers have special badges they wear to identify them as superior homo sapiens?
I love the fact that photography has been made available to the masses with the advent of digital. It’s encouraged the visual recording of human history in a way that was never before possible. I believe we can see our lives and the lives of others from so many new perspectives that were previously private or inaccessible.
No doubt there is an art to film, and to the developing of film, and I’d love to learn about that. But digital doesn’t make photography any less an art. The point of my post is that expensive equipment doesn’t make the photographer — the eye makes the photographer. And that will never change.
As for the “low-tech” paradigm. I don’t mind low-tech in some facets of my life. My goal someday is to live on a horse farm and run my business mostly without electricity. I love writing letters with real stationery, and sending Christmas cards. But in the realm of online banking, wordprocessing, blogging, and digital photography, I think I’ll always be a high-tech girl.