I get asked a lot what sort of kit I use and who I prefer with regards to Nikon or Canon and I feel like people are expecting some wondrous amazing answer which I really do not have.
I use a good ol' fashioned DSLR Canon 350D... why? Simply put I don't want to spend a God awful amount of money on a 'better' camera [better meaning like a 60D, 7D, 5D, 1D... etc] when simply put I do not need one. My camera may be a fair few years old but it has served me well and is no where near the end of its life. I do have a fair few lenses but I mainly only use my Macro and a standard zoom lens, nothing overtly flashy with £££.
I don't want to sound like I'm hating on people who have the above mentioned cameras or even better but I do not think it is the end of the line if you don't have one or can't afford one. I am torn down the middle here a bit, I could spend my money on a more up to date camera but I have other things to spend my money on, to some extent more important things or things I would place above my career. Also I don't really need to... maybe the most important message in this blog post... I do not feel I need to 'invest' in a 'better' camera.
Why? My work goes beyond the confines of a DSLR anyway. I see the camera as a starting point of my work and not the whole point. I work with a lot of mediums anyway so within the work I present at the moment I want to push it to the maximum. I feel it goes into an overt digital world where it will be layered, mixed, blended, cloned, C&V'd and the colours will meld across a multitude of alterations on various palettes. Other aspects will be brought in never even in sight of the viewfinder on the image, textures, shapes, accents etc will 99% of the time be present in my final image.
I think a lot of pressure is put on people to have what is deemed as the best when it might not be the best for them... [geek mode] kind of like the Final Fantasy series... in my opinion FF7 is the best and I have played the game back to front but the series didn't end there it has carried on but for me my favourite is FF7.
I will even further hit my point by saying that some of my photographs were not even taken on a DSLR but on a little compact camera because I do not always have the ability to carry all my equipment around or I might not even have been on a shoot but just out and about and happened to have my little Nikon around.
Photography is almost about seeing the final image before you have even hit the shutter, you tend to know your own skill level or know an idea you want to try and to limit yourself to the number which happens to be the model of your camera doesn't make you a photographer. You have to be creative, get out there, if you don't have your camera then sketch it out, build on other creative skills to hone your talent, do not limit yourself to one aspect when the whole creative world is brimming with so many interesting and innovative notions.
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