Blog Post #45

Just a few thoughts

Not much happening this end photography wise at the moment so I thought I would just mention a couple of things that have gone through my mind lately.

I got an email from Lensculture revealing the winners of the “Lensculture Summer Open Competition”. The email stated that the standard of entries was high and the six “experts” on the panel had a tough time judging it. If you have read my previous posts then you will know that I am not a great advocate for competition in photography, but I thought I would take a look at what the “experts” decided was the best from a large entry. Don’t get me wrong if entering competitions is your thing then fine, if you win then well done.

I looked at the winners from the “20 New Award Winning Photographers”, and was totally underwhelmed. I have picked out these two. Well done to the photographers, but I am left a bit cold if I am honest.

If you disagree with me then fine, I’d love to hear your comments, I don’t see the context of the left hand side shot and the quality looks a bit dubious. The one on the right is some indigenous people standing in front of a plane (albeit Air Force 1). What am I missing?

The other thing that was going through my mind was video photography. My camera (Fuji X-T3) apparently has great video capabilities, as did my Nikon D750 before that. Why then have I never made use of these features? I would love to be competent in videography but I never seem to have the time to do anything about it, which suggests to me that my heart is not in it. I see newer cameras coming on to the market with even better video capabilities all the time. Given the price of camera bodies today, why do I have to pay for a major feature that I do not need? Will a mainstream manufacturer ever bring out a digital camera model that is stills photography only?. They all seem to assume we need video in our cameras and give us it whether we want it or not. I see Sony have recently brought out a camera that specialises in Vlogging capabilities, will it be the first of a new trend? Maybe I am looking at this from the wrong end and I should be trying video, and maybe I will some day, but if Fuji brought out a stills only X-series camera I would buy it.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog post and thank you for reading it. If you want to comment on this blog post please do so below or you can contact me by using the “Contact Me” facility in the website header.

Pete

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