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Sun rises in Umm Al Quain
Date: 06th March 09
MyUAE-Pro Island Escapade 09, Palma Beach Resort, Umm Al Quain
Friday, November 28, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Sunset at Al-Mamzar
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Your Camera Doesn't Matter (by Ken Rockwell)
Some encouraging words from Ken Rockwell for me and those who think that it's the camera that makes the picture......
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Also in Spanish, Ukrainian, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Dutch, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Russian, Portuguese and Hungarian.
I get my goodies at Ritz, Amazon, and Adorama. It helps me publish this site when you get yours from those links, too.
See examples at A $150 vs. a $5,000 Camera. See what great shots can be made with an obsolete $200 Canon A620, and see what I shot back in 2001 with my first crappy Sony FD-88 floppy disc camera.
Why is it that with over 60 years of improvements in cameras, lens sharpness and film grain, resolution and dynamic range that no one has been able to equal what Ansel Adams did back in the 1940s?
Ansel didn't even have Photoshop! How did he do it? Most attempts fall short, some are as good but different like Jack Dykinga, but no one is the same.
Try to tell an American he can't, and he will: Man Uses Barbie Fishing Rod for Record Catch!
Why is it that photographers loaded with the most extraordinary gear who use the internet to get the exact GPS coordinates of Jack's or Ansel's photo locations and hike out there with the image in hand to ensure an exact copy (illegal by US copyright laws and common decency), that they get something that might look similar, but lacks all the impact and emotion of the original they thought they copied?
I'm not kidding. A bunch of these turkeys used university astronomers to predict the one time in almost two decades that the conditions would match and had 300 of the clueless converge at just the right spot. They still didn't get the clouds, snow or shadows right. This makes Ansel or any other creative artist cringe. Of course they didn't get anything like what they wanted. Art is a lot more.
.........Read more about it HERE..................
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Also in Spanish, Ukrainian, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Dutch, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Russian, Portuguese and Hungarian.
I get my goodies at Ritz, Amazon, and Adorama. It helps me publish this site when you get yours from those links, too.
See examples at A $150 vs. a $5,000 Camera. See what great shots can be made with an obsolete $200 Canon A620, and see what I shot back in 2001 with my first crappy Sony FD-88 floppy disc camera.
Why is it that with over 60 years of improvements in cameras, lens sharpness and film grain, resolution and dynamic range that no one has been able to equal what Ansel Adams did back in the 1940s?
Ansel didn't even have Photoshop! How did he do it? Most attempts fall short, some are as good but different like Jack Dykinga, but no one is the same.
Try to tell an American he can't, and he will: Man Uses Barbie Fishing Rod for Record Catch!
Why is it that photographers loaded with the most extraordinary gear who use the internet to get the exact GPS coordinates of Jack's or Ansel's photo locations and hike out there with the image in hand to ensure an exact copy (illegal by US copyright laws and common decency), that they get something that might look similar, but lacks all the impact and emotion of the original they thought they copied?
I'm not kidding. A bunch of these turkeys used university astronomers to predict the one time in almost two decades that the conditions would match and had 300 of the clueless converge at just the right spot. They still didn't get the clouds, snow or shadows right. This makes Ansel or any other creative artist cringe. Of course they didn't get anything like what they wanted. Art is a lot more.
.........Read more about it HERE..................
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