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Photography is fun and joy to those who have found it. You get to have the “power” to keep a graphical history of what your eyes can see. You can preserve it in hard copies of varying sizes or in digital form which you have a chance to keep “forever” provided you back it up promptly. In the not-too-distant past, only the well-off can afford the best cameras. Not known to many, then and until now, there is much to learn if one is serious in taking on a career in photography. One precondition is that one must have enough resources to sustain the “vice”. For the common user, a digital camera, a battery pack and a charger is all it takes to get on with a “career” in photography. Talking to or reading from publications for/of photography enthusiasts is like entering a world all its own. It has its own jargon, its set of written and unwritten laws and rules and the many intricacies in living in that world commonly inhabited by artists. Artists they are because it is not just peeping through and clicking away that makes up the “photographer”. In order to know photography better, one has to enter that world, interact with its inhabitants and momentarily “live” with them. For the common man, it is unthinkable to buy a zoom lens worth ten times the price of a verily branded camera in the amount of over US$25,000. Aside from the zoom lens, there are this and that package of accessories that seem useless but are really enhancements that enable the serious photographers to come up with the desired impact and result. That is how they create the most incredibly beautiful shoots, whatever the subject may be. Now, that was the technical side of it. There is a certain idiosyncrasy among the very serious photographers that very few people can understand. It is the deeper sense of art that can only be translated by the splendid art pieces they come up with – often in “black and white”. These types of photography enthusiasts are the ones who do not care about money. Ironically, it is their artwork that fetches the highest prices when displayed at the most prestigious photo galleries. More ironic is their preference of equipment. They would use the non-digital, previous-model equipment versus the modern digital units which, to the ordinary photography enthusiast, can do anything and everything under the sun, short of magic. But believe it or not, these “old” photography systems that use rolls and rolls of cellulose film have the power, to the very serious photographer, to create the magical photographic effects that only they are capable of. That is art in its true sense. Uncommon as common sense. Something that the digital world and our computers cannot do. Want to be one of them? Bon voyage!!!
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