| Ryan ( @ 2005-09-19 10:32:00 |
And, zooming orders of magnitude ahead in talent…
Engaging in photography forums, like pretty much any kind of Net forums, is a lot like banging your head against the wall. It doesn't take much "Nikon sucks! No, Canon sucks!" repartee to make your eyes glaze over. But every once in a while something makes it all worth it. These images, from some random poster at DPReview.com, make perhaps the best wildlife series I've ever seen, all taken with a camera that most of photographers with more geek than art would consider obsolete. OK, he used some of the best lenses available today, but one of the many disturbingly wrong ideas that photo-geeks fixate on is that the camera itself is the most important element of a photo, just because it has the most specs to measure.
Anyway, seriously, look at these. Wildlife photography isn't normally my cup of tea, but these blow me away:
Africa, Chapter 1
Africa, Chapter 2
Africa, Chapter 3
Engaging in photography forums, like pretty much any kind of Net forums, is a lot like banging your head against the wall. It doesn't take much "Nikon sucks! No, Canon sucks!" repartee to make your eyes glaze over. But every once in a while something makes it all worth it. These images, from some random poster at DPReview.com, make perhaps the best wildlife series I've ever seen, all taken with a camera that most of photographers with more geek than art would consider obsolete. OK, he used some of the best lenses available today, but one of the many disturbingly wrong ideas that photo-geeks fixate on is that the camera itself is the most important element of a photo, just because it has the most specs to measure.
Anyway, seriously, look at these. Wildlife photography isn't normally my cup of tea, but these blow me away:
Africa, Chapter 1
Africa, Chapter 2
Africa, Chapter 3