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Up Your Photographic Game

03 Friday Mar 2017

Posted by musickna in Photography

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artistry, money, photography tours

Flood Plain Sunset by Richard Keeling on 500px.com

I just received an email invitation to ‘Up my photographic game’ from Nikon with a tour through Chile and Easter Island in the company of some photographers. Price not specified (that I could find) but doubtless several or more thousand dollars.

As a travel expedition, yes, I can see merit in this. But as to ‘upping my photographic game’, well, put anyone with a good (presumably Nikon) camera in a fairly remote yet scenic destination and you’ll end up with some ‘ooh and aaah’ photographs much admired by many.

But will that make you a better photographer? Unlikely. The premise of such expeditions is off base. Implied is that it’s the location that makes the photographer, not the photographer him or herself. It’s also a good way to make money for photography tour guides and travel companies. And that’s fine – as long as you are well aware of just what you are getting and just what you aren’t.

So I’m not going to follow up with this. I just need to travel a few miles from my house to find spots – like this view of Columbia Bottom Conservation Area – that give me all I need to improve (or not) my own photography.

Given, too, that I am inherently a solitary photographer who finds the company of other photographers actively inhibiting, the attraction of a shepherded tour diminishes yet further.

Photography can be an irritating hobby. In every direction there are people wanting to take your money. Again the promise is that you can somehow buy yourself into being a better photographer.

You can’t.

Yet many seem to fall into that trap, the most insidious being the equipment trap and the deliberate marketing of expensive gear as somehow ‘professional’ and thus desirable for your photographic growth. It isn’t. It’s only desirable if you are looking for rugged and long lasting equipment that is less likely to fail you than flimsier stuff. Again, nothing wrong with that. But be aware.

No, to be a better photographer you need become a better artist. To do that you need to develop a style and vision that is meaningfully yours and is always beneficially informed by knowledge of the works of great photographers. And you do that anywhere.

 

 

 

Why I continue to distrust financial advisors

13 Sunday Sep 2009

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financial advisors, futures, money

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Money madness

14 Thursday May 2009

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debt, delusion, money, relationships, self-destruction

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Why has it taken so long?

21 Saturday Mar 2009

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AIG, bonuses, greed, money

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The New Frugality

22 Wednesday Oct 2008

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economy, frugality, money, teenagers, ways of living

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I looked

11 Saturday Oct 2008

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crash, financial crisis, money

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Short and to the point

20 Saturday Sep 2008

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bailout, crisis, economy, government, LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR TREASURY AUTHORITY TO PUR, money, mortgage debt

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Mephisto Waltz

19 Friday Sep 2008

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crisis, economy, money, nationalization, Wall Street

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It got worse

17 Wednesday Sep 2008

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economy, finance, hard times, money, stock market

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Why I don’t like the finance industry – reason #162

13 Wednesday Aug 2008

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irritation, money

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