Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Megapixels Don't Matter

One of my favorite photographers, Chase Jarvis has a book out called "The Best Camera Is The One That's With You."  The idea being that you don't need a $3,000 DSLR to take interesting photos.  
This was a philosophy that while traveling as a student on a Michigan State University (Go Green!) study abroad trip I had to live by and, to quite an extent, still have to live by.  All the photos below were taken with a relatively inexpensive Panasonic point-n'-shoot camera.  They aren't Pulitzer material, but some are just slightly more interesting than your average snapshot. (One even got an honorable mention for the study abroad photo contest that year....oh yeah!)   






















My equipment has since gotten slightly more sophisticated, but the philosophy still remains the same. Use whatever you've got and use it a lot.  If you want to make interesting pictures you have to start taking pictures in the first place. 

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