Pro with D40

[Buckster]

Be careful now...
You dared to disagree with the great and wonderful Buckster. He sees all and knows all and he makes no bones about it.

That's uncalled for. You can stop being mad because I called your bluff and you couldn't deliver on your non-factual statement any time now. Be an adult.

He also seems to think that the portfolio would never be fraudulent.

If it is, then there's no saving the client anyway, especially when I also called for sample packages and references. Time for some law suits and bad reputation for that "photographer" if they go to that degree of fraud.

What's the next excuse? Meteors? Flood? Locusts?

 

[Plato]

Be careful now...
You dared to disagree with the great and wonderful Buckster. He sees all and knows all and he makes no bones about it.

That's uncalled for. You can stop being mad because I called your bluff and you couldn't deliver on your non-factual statement any time now. Be an adult.

He also seems to think that the portfolio would never be fraudulent.

If it is, then there's no saving the client anyway. Time for some law suits and bad reputation for that "photographer".

What's the next excuse? Meteors? Flood? Locusts?

Damn, he's sensitive! Does that go with being perfect?

 

[Foques]

its not the CAMERA that makes pro a pro, its the MAN who makes the difference.

camera is there to make life of a pro easier. that is all.

I don't care how much money joe shmoe has spent on his gear, I know what I can do with my gear.. I have heard many times people complain that my shot taken d40 (or d300s) looks better then their taken with a pro grade shots. that said, I hope, some day, i'll get to teh level some of you are at right now...

now, that said, its not an attack on anyone here.. I'm just saying what I truly do believe.
BTW, wait till the 2016 olympics flyer... there will be 2 pictures that were taken by "amateur" equipment... (one d40 and one d90 if i recall right).



Gah.. to the main question.

I would want to see the portfolio, as it was already said. But I know what to look for at this point.. Many people don't. this weekend I witnessed a wedding being shot by coolpix.. cost was 400$.. lol

the wedding I saw being shot a month ago, was shot by 1 (ONE) photog, running 2(two) 40ds... father of the bride (guy who paid photog's bill) said they paid him well over 30K.. Go figure.

 

[Buckster]

Damn, he's sensitive! Does that go with being perfect?

 

[inTempus]

its not the CAMERA that makes pro a pro, its the MAN who makes the difference.

camera is there to make life of a pro easier. that is all.

Spoken like a man with a consumer body.

I used to take mediocre images. I couldn't figure out why, then I bought a 1DMk3. My life changed completely. I went from a happy snapper shooting poorly framed and out of focus shots of my pets and family to being a highly sought after professional photographer.

The difference?

The hardware.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

[schumionbike]

If equipment truly did not matter, then every one of us could simply walk outside and look at a subject, and then we could all,at the proper moment of course, press our thumbs and index fingers together and say, "Click!". And with that, we would all capture a great photograph. But photography does not work that way; no, photography requires a camera and a lens and a capture medium, and therefore the equipment that is used actually has a significant bearing on the results.

If equipment truly did not matter, we could all be out getting fantastic results with 30-year old Kodak 110 Instamatics. We could hire professionals that were using 110 Instamatics. And fantastic sports photographs would regularly be shot with $299 point and shoot cameras. NASA would take Digital Rebels on the Space Shuttle flights. Pros would shoot weddings with D40s. Sports Illustrated photographers would be raving about the Canon T1i's impressive AF system and incredible firing rate over beers after work.

Thumb. Index Finger. Press together,forming circle, bring up to eye, press together and loudly say, "Click!" There's your equipment.

First, we have to assume that you have a camera of some kind to take pictures, that's a given. It''s a complete different thing to say that some gears give you more advantages in a certain type of photography than to say some kind of photography would required only a certain gear (with the exception of X-ray lol).
Can you get good sport picture in a low light with a D40 and a kit lens or some old film camera with manual focus? Of course you can. You can always look at sport pictures from the 1960's for a reference when everyone was still manual focusing and film got grainy by 800 ISO. Does a D3 with a 400 f2.8 give you an advantage over a old film camera with manual focus? yes. Is it required to have that D3? Nope, but would preferred a D3 though, definitely make life a little easier. So does equipment really matter? I don't know, never got that far. Would you hire a pro with a D40 for a wedding if his name is Joe McNally? Yup.

 

[schumionbike]

its not the CAMERA that makes pro a pro, its the MAN who makes the difference.

camera is there to make life of a pro easier. that is all.

Spoken like a man with a consumer body.

I used to take mediocre images. I couldn't figure out why, then I bought a 1DMk3. My life changed completely. I went from a happy snapper shooting poorly framed and out of focus shots of my pets and family to being a highly sought after professional photographer.

The difference?

The hardware.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

How did a 1DMk3 fixed the poorly frame pictures problem??? That just sound fraudulent. lol

 

[inTempus]

How did a 1DMk3 fixed the poorly frame pictures problem??? That just sound fraudulent. lol

You can hate the game but don't hate on the player.

 

[schumionbike]

How did a 1DMk3 fixed the poorly frame pictures problem??? That just sound fraudulent. lol

You can hate the game but don't hate on the player.

I'm just saying, that's a rediculuous statement.

 

[inTempus]

How did a 1DMk3 fixed the poorly frame pictures problem??? That just sound fraudulent. lol

You can hate the game but don't hate on the player.

I'm just saying, that's a rediculuous statement.

It's a fact, Jack.

My shots are now perfectly framed, in focus, flawless execution and even the lighting is perfect. I never would have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes.

 

[inTempus]

Here's an example.

I took this shot with my buddies Rebel on a model shoot:

Then I took a shot with my 1DMk3:

You tell me there's not a difference.

 

[Plato]

Here's an example.

I took this shot with my buddies Rebel on a model shoot:



Then I took a shot with my 1DMk3:



You tell me there's not a difference.

That certainly proves that even a Canon can do well with the right subject.

 

[NateWagner]

inTempus, you're cracking me up.

 

[inTempus]

inTempus, you're cracking me up.

 

[schumionbike]

Here's an example.

I took this shot with my buddies Rebel on a model shoot:

Then I took a shot with my 1DMk3:

You tell me there's not a difference.

The second is very nice. The first one is better compose though even though it's quite quite noisy and look like it was taken while it's on a computer screen by cell phone The grain does add character to the shot though