I am surprised this is still going....it was a throwaway post after a bottle of wine and an annoying chat to someone.
The last comments are interesting to me...having run a college photography department for some years in London.
I am not sure that genius can be taught..but I 100% believe that good tuition brings out the full potential in someone. But to paraphrase a genius (Michaelangelo)....\'it is the small things that make perfection.....perfection is no little thing\'.
One only has to look at the work of, say Ansel Adams, to see the truth in that. And as someone who has attended a major AAdams exhibition in London, and been amazed at the sheer quality of the prints...I seriously doubt that those images would have been better taken on a 5D3...that applies to the early large format and the later 6X6 blad pics.
I maintain my proposition that photographers are, in the main. being seduced by manufacturers and sites like this to spend unnecessary money on gear when other avenues will lead them to the creation of better images.
May 19, 2012 at 01:23 PM
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