Chris Steele-Perkins
www.chrissteeleperkins.com
TECHNICALLY, photography has become quite easy today, especially where focus, exposure, colour balance and so on can be done pretty well by all cameras. However, this can also be a disadvantage, because it’s easy to not bother to really understand what’s going on in the process of making a photograph, such as what changes with f-stops, ISO and focal lengths. Photographers should know and understand these technical aspects because they can then use them to help themselves. On the other hand, there are photographers who seem to be obsessed by the technology, when pixel counts and chromatic aberration become more important than the actual image. Ideally, you should try to understand the technical side so it becomes second nature, allowing you to concentrate on the really difficult…
