Jerevan
Recycled User
Today, the thought struck me that "I am buying (too many) cameras and lenses in search of a vision".
Except I don't know exactly how that vision should look, but I think that I will know when I see it.
Does that make sense?
Except I don't know exactly how that vision should look, but I think that I will know when I see it.
Does that make sense?
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dof
Fiat Lux
This only needs to make sense to you. Work with it. If it's useful, work with it. If not, jettison it.
MCTuomey
Veteran
I have pretty good gear. My output isn't. I need that thing called vision.
John Bragg
Well-known
Vision transcends equipment in the making of images. Some of my best shots have been taken with humble thrift store and ebay compacts, bought for literally pence ! However, quality equipment makes consistent results easier to obtain.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
I buy the equipment needed to make the images I visualize, rather than depending on equipment to change or enhance my vision.
robert blu
quiet photographer
first: vision, second equipment. Now the question could be: how to get a vision, or to develop our own vision (which cannot be bough as for gear).
For me it was see in many visual works, not only photographic. books and exhibitions. Trying to imitate in the beginning, than starting my own way, taking risk (photographically speaking), going out of my comfort zone, it's a continuous work, a never ending story, which is what I like in a creative activity as photography.
robert
For me it was see in many visual works, not only photographic. books and exhibitions. Trying to imitate in the beginning, than starting my own way, taking risk (photographically speaking), going out of my comfort zone, it's a continuous work, a never ending story, which is what I like in a creative activity as photography.
robert
Nokton48
Veteran
Very well put! I think that I do tend to take off in the direction that the equipment takes me (to some extent) but that is secondary to having the vision and working to maintain it.
Damaso
Photojournalist
It sounds like you need to spend more time thinking about what interests you about photography. What are you trying to communicate through your work? Or are you using photography as a means of understanding the world?
Gear is never going to help you find your vision...
Gear is never going to help you find your vision...
airfrogusmc
Veteran
Yes this is what I do also.
And in my opinion it's not vision VS equipment but the two are connected. Finding equipment to match the way you see and work is what it is all about.
Agreed... and you might not know what you want without trying a few things at first.
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
Our "vision" might depend on the gear and lens.
For street for example.
Wide or tele, you'll see it differently and it will have impact on "vision".
Tunneling SLR VF, classic TLR, RF view might dictate your vision, because they are very different.
Also, I have "vision" how I want to photograph trees. Some of it requires UWA, some LF with motion of both standards.
For street for example.
Wide or tele, you'll see it differently and it will have impact on "vision".
Tunneling SLR VF, classic TLR, RF view might dictate your vision, because they are very different.
Also, I have "vision" how I want to photograph trees. Some of it requires UWA, some LF with motion of both standards.
Jerevan
Recycled User
Some comments:
I agree with the idea that it is vision and equipment, and not a divide between these two things. There is a relationship - that the tools help you along to the vision and vice versa.
I think of photography (writing, drawing) as a means to understand the world around me.
Originally photography was a means to connect more directly, more hands-on to the world compared to writing which is in your own head most of the time.
I agree with the idea that it is vision and equipment, and not a divide between these two things. There is a relationship - that the tools help you along to the vision and vice versa.
I think of photography (writing, drawing) as a means to understand the world around me.
Originally photography was a means to connect more directly, more hands-on to the world compared to writing which is in your own head most of the time.
daveleo
what?
I think you're just sorting out what works for you and what doesn't. I don't think you need to establish a "vision" and then buy the perfect gear to make it happen. I think you should buy and try gear and shoot and shoot and the "vision" may come around some day.
I think we may be talking about an artistic vision (seeing photographically) and you are talking about perspective / field of view / lens choice.
back alley
IMAGES
can't say that i have much of a vision really...more like a desire to capture what catches my attention, to show others what i see...
when it comes to gear i buy the same things over & over...a body and few lenses with the same fov as the last batch i bought!
when it comes to gear i buy the same things over & over...a body and few lenses with the same fov as the last batch i bought!
CMur12
Veteran
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ko.Fe.
Our "vision" might depend on the gear and lens.
For street for example.
Wide or tele, you'll see it differently and it will have impact on "vision".
Tunneling SLR VF, classic TLR, RF view might dictate your vision, because they are very different.
Also, I have "vision" how I want to photograph trees. Some of it requires UWA, some LF with motion of both standards.
I think we can separate vision from perspective/field of view/lens choice in concept more successfully than we can in practice. Ko appears to be saying the former depends on the latter. I think that's largely true. Additionally, the sequence and the associations aren't exactly the same for every individual.
- Murray
Originally Posted by Ko.Fe.
Our "vision" might depend on the gear and lens.
For street for example.
Wide or tele, you'll see it differently and it will have impact on "vision".
Tunneling SLR VF, classic TLR, RF view might dictate your vision, because they are very different.
Also, I have "vision" how I want to photograph trees. Some of it requires UWA, some LF with motion of both standards.
I think we can separate vision from perspective/field of view/lens choice in concept more successfully than we can in practice. Ko appears to be saying the former depends on the latter. I think that's largely true. Additionally, the sequence and the associations aren't exactly the same for every individual.
- Murray
Ko.Fe.
Lenses 35/21 Gears 46/20
Thank you, Murray. It isn't easy with my ESL.
Dare I say, I have some artistic "vision", feel free to check my Flickr.
It just not "99+ likes" artasty, yet
Also I have learned enough to understand which gear I have to chose to achieve some particular view according to artistic "vision" of something specific I have in my head.
I hope, I didn't screw it with my ESL again.
Cheers,
Ko.
kxl
Social Documentary
"Vision Without Action is a Daydream, Action Without Vision is a Nightmare." - Japanese Proverb.
x-ray
Veteran
Equipment can consume you and it's just too easy to get caught up in the gear. My work was just as good when I owned one body and one lens as it was when I owned six bodies and a dozen lenses. Too often the lack of equipment becomes an excuse for no vision.
MCTuomey
Veteran
Guilty here