Sunday, January 17, 2010

Content vs Process

There is probably no art media that is more geeky and nerdy than photography.

I just read a thread on a photography website comparing the technical quality of an image from a $2500 digital camera with that of an $8000 camera. To everyone's amazement, the $8000 camera had a "slightly better" image than the $2500 camera. This observation and conclusion is a major step forward for mankind. Just imagine that you can spend $5500 more and actually get a better technical image! DUH!

If most photographers spent even half as much time worrying about the quality of the content of their images as they do about the process of creating them, they'd be infinitely better photographers. It's not about the process, it's about the image.

If an image works, it doesn't matter how I got there. If it doesn't, it doesn't matter how I got there.

1 comment:

  1. How appropriate is my blog today with this topic! I compared a Holga to a Hasselblad! The Hassi won, but only slightly!

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