Tools...

[GrJohnso]

Last week while waiting for hwy88 to be cleared of avy debris I took some time to take in the scenery. First time for any landscapes with my new camera, but it really didn't matter what I was using... Blowing snow, flat light, and generally not a friendly environment for my new toy... Oh well...

A700, 15yo Minolta 100mm 2.8 macro... Converted to B/W in Lightroom and cropped... Highly compressed jpeg... But the overall result is a nice postcard type shot that really could have been captured with almost any camera these days...

Snowy Photo

 

[Nohr]

If you hadn't said that it was a photo I would've guessed that it was a painting. I like it.

 

[skulkingghost]

Gorgeous photo!

 

[teatime0315]

Very Nice GrJohnso. I like it!

 

[corkyg]

It is artful, and even transmits the cold! Nice job!

 

[GrJohnso]

Thanks for the positive feedback... I don't get too many keepers I feel like sharing, so this was a nice change for me...

Anyway, back to watching the Packers and Giants battle it out in the deep freeze.. Good test of camera equipment going on there. -4 air and -24 windchill..

 

[jpeyton]

While I agree with you (that cameras are merely tools), you didn't really illustrate your point by capturing the image with a $900 DSLR.

I expected to see a photo taken with a cheap digital/film camera.

 

[GrJohnso]

True. In that sense it doesn't prove the point well. By posting a highly compressed, downsized jpeg it removed any technical "advantages" or what ever you would want to call them the camera may have had over any other.

Still, I could have told you it was taken with a cheap digital P&S and you would have believed me based purely on the content of the photo and quality of the output. There is nothing about the sharpness, resolution, or even in the tonal range of the image that would make you think the tool used was anything special. By posting a highly compressed, downsized jpeg it removed any technical "advantages" or what ever you would want to call them the camera may have had over any other.

The idea was that you could look at that photo and hopefully enjoy it, yet pixel peep it to death and see there is nothing remarkable about it in the details....

We often get hung up on the latest technologies, highest pixel counts, sharpest resolution, or perfect dynamic range captured by the camera and forget about the actual vision or the photograph itself. I was just trying to get back to that... No biggie...