Contrary to popular belief, having good equipment doesn’t automatically make someone’s photos good. Equipment is important, but it’s not everything! The most important tools are vision and imagination. With these, the photographer already forms the image in their mind before actually taking the shot. Of course, all equipment has physical limits, so it makes sense to upgrade your gear only when it starts to hinder achieving the envisioned result.
Photography. PHOTography. It’s not about megapixel production or creating bokeh porn with fast lenses. You’re not a photographer just because you bought a full-frame camera and blur the background to unrecognizability at f/1.2. Most people, unfortunately, are impressed by that, especially if you try to hide the fact that you don’t light properly with one or two Instagram-style effects. Or maybe you try to save yourself with the ‘I only work with natural light’ card. You can do that—photography isn’t an exact science, it’s an art. You can also justify it as artistic freedom, of course. Short/broad lighting, loop, butterfly, Rembrandt lighting… do terms like rim light or background light mean anything to you?
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