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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennethHamlett" data-source="post: 1417" data-attributes="member: 22">I don't disagree with the general sentiment. I'm old school--been shooting since I was 15, went to NYU and majored in photography and now I shoot architectural photography for a living. What I've seen over the past 32 years is evolution. When I started shooting, if you weren't a photojournalist, travel photographer or sports photographer than you shot medium format - the format for snobs (just kidding)! The artists shot large format - 4x5 and bigger. The rest of us shot 35mm SLRs, unless you were a different kind of artist and shot 35mm rangefinders like Leica. Every medium and large format photographer (or their assistant) spent HOURS in the darkroom creating the perfect shot. It was a matter of getting the very best image possible.Today, everyone has a digital camera and calls him/herself a "photographer". The problem is most people think because they spend $2500 on the D700 or Canon 5d MKII that they deserve to get good pictures...after all they have this great camera. Well it just ain't so. So what happens? They spend more time worrying about what lens to buy or what camera body they need for "outside" pictures (WTF?) instead of learning the craft. So then since they can't get the picture they want because they have failed to learn how to shoot they say, "Oh, I can make it look good in Photoshop". Again, IT AIN'T SO!! In the wrong hands a digital camera and Photoshop are EVIL!! I use Photoshop extensively on my commercial work, clients demand certain things and sometimes you CANNOT get it when you shoot (all the lights on in the building at the right time for example).OK, I'm going to wrap it up. To anyone reading this my mantra is...Shoot your butt off, Learn the craft, Shoot your butt off some more and THEN you'll be ready for a new lens and Photoshop and all that digital photography offers!Hope I didn't scare anyone off.</blockquote>

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