poisonpill wrote:
For some people, there might be a circular polarizer addiction phase as well.
Maybe a place where one goes "who needs primes? zooms are the best".
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I'm just emerging from a polarizer addiction. I have figured out they don't do anything good for me at night. As for "Who needs primes, zooms are best" phase, for me that came after the earlier phase of "Primes are so much better than zooms because all the big name photographers were using them 40 years ago!" phase.
I swear I nearly spit when I found this...
* went and looked at some of my earliest photos - flowers
* learned exposure and technicals first (useless without a knowledge of composition)
* went through a 2 year NAS cycle where the 2 milestones were HDR and a Tripod
* wife bought me a 40 year old Argus Cintar C3 from an antique shop - popped some tri-x there, went out with a $300 light meter and my $20 camera and took incredible priceless black and whites
* finally at the point where I'm past the gearfaggotry and focusing on creating images, which means.........well hopefully that last part of the timeline is not drawn to scale.
But are the stages predetermined developmentally? Can one skip a stage? Perhaps regress in times of stress? And what happens if you didn't fully experience one stage...are there long-term ramifications?
Needs a "Just bought my first 1.4 lens, now I shoot everything wide open even if it's to the detriment of the photo because bokeh is professional" stage.
VetraLens wrote:
Needs a "Just bought my first 1.4 lens, now I shoot everything wide open even if it's to the detriment of the photo because bokeh is professional" stage.
Yes. Unfortunately a lot of portrait and wedding photographers get stuck there.
This does need a few more adding now HDR seems to be dying at last:
First speedlight (discovers strobist). A second gearfaggotry quest and plummet of results producing overlit pictures
VSCO filters. Blacks should be grey and everything should be yellow tilted.
As for "Who needs primes, zooms are best" phase, for me that came after the earlier phase of "Primes are so much better than zooms because all the big name photographers were using them 40 years ago!" phase.
that's wrong 
