Toronto Photography Meetup Group

An interesting little article on a topic I think we all have been guilty of.

http://www.flixelpix.com/blog/my-photog ... -just-had/

J.

" As photographers we should be consuming our craft not our technology. The “my photography would be so much better if I just had….” thought process is simply the road to misery, it will have very little impact on the quality of our images and it offers little satisfaction."

Wise words for those I know are on this road.. Not that I'm not guilty from time to time either.

... talent.

I'd trade that for a 5D MKIII every day of the week.

Time and money to shoot more lol.

I'm thinking... "If I had models all the time"

The best photographers I know got that way by constantly shooting someone close to them. wife, kids, friends.

My friends all *glare* at me if I even think of bringing a camera on a trip to the beach, or really anywhere for that matter. If I aim a camera at them, I get a dirty palm shoved in the lens.

So I go out and take pictures of random strangers sometimes. Right now, I can't legally work as a Photographer (work permit issues) so I'm stuck just doing it as a hobby.

It gets boring. I want more things to shoot, without having to arrange half a day "outing" to make it happen!

Give me Ansel Adams eyes and my old D620L, and I'll take that over a car full of Phase One gear.

More experience, 10,000 hours worth would do nicely.

Creativity works wonders too.

A great location with constantly changing landscape and constant dramatic light
P.S. forgot the African starving kids and wrinkly Indian men and women

1 solid year of time and New York City.

A maid in a French maid outfit.

And old Asian people struggling with some sort of cargo for some Kai Digitalrev style.

I'd be better if I had less fear.

an agent to sell my work, so I'd actually make money from photography.

nothing... happy with where its at!

If you're an art photographer, wouldn't an art gallery be responsible for marketing and selling your work? If you're a commercial photographer, an agent would manage clients and cultivate new jobs.

More time with my camera and some of my subjects.
Or like Bart says, the time and money to allow shooting.

I'd love a new tri-pod head, but that wouldn't make my photos better, it would just aide in the speed of shooting methinks.

... no reason to worry about my rental car getting its tires slashed and its windows trashed.

My photography would be so much better if I just spent less time here and actually took some photos

...a camera.

But isn't an interesting subject an important element of a photograph? I think documenting something interesting or unusual would improve a lot of peoples' photography.
Flickr is full of shots of the mundane that people have to feign interest in by using excess vignetting, ridiculous narrow depth of focus. Interesting subjects DO improve people's photography. That's why they travel miles to historic mills, mountain meadows or dramatic shorelines, no?