Olivier Duong, writer for Digital Photography School, shares how to make the best out of the equipment you have for photography.
It’s not the camera you have – it’s what you do with it
One day, as I was looking up to the stars, a revelation came upon me. It got imprinted into me that my career should be in photography. That’s the story I’d like to tell myself about how I entered photography. The reality is that I stumbled unto photography quite by accident. I saw a friend of mine who had this very nice professional looking camera. Big, black, sexy, it was a Nikon D80.
One faithful day I did the math while counting my money, and did a quick Craigslist search. My goodness! Looks like I could buy one! And that I did. But that was just the beginning. After being a Nikon shooter for a while, I started buying lenses, more and more.
I brought and sold cameras like crazy, my wife’s family had to ask if I was rich because it seemed like every month or so I would have a new camera. Thing was, I wasn’t rich by any stretch of the imagination, all I had was ebay: I sold some stuff, then bought some stuff, again and again.
It got so bad that I bought a large format camera, two graflex backs, about a hundred pieces of film, then only shot about three frames before selling it. I even had a medium format camera at some point too, with a box full of medium format film of which I only shot like two rolls, and they are still undeveloped to this day.
I’m not here to chronicle my old gear addiction, but to hopefully drive a simple point home that I’ve learned the hard way: It’s not what camera you have, it’s what you do with it.
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Taking great photos isn't always guaranteed by the size or cost of a camera. You might spend thousands of dollars on gear and equipment, and still not get the results you expected. Making the most of the camera you have, from the cheapest to the most expensive, can help you take great images.