THE GARDEN
AUGUST 23
Behind the camera - thoughts about photography
It's been a pretty long time since I've been on what I would call the photography bubble on YouTube. It has been stressing me out to stay on top of things and trends, and I needed to take a long break from photography to get curious again about what's going on.
Until one video caught my attention. I would say that the overall message was that 2000s digicams are the new analog cameras. And I got excited, went down the rabbit hole, and decided that all I needed now was a good old digicam. That's when I remembered the old digital camera my grandpa gave me two years ago, which I haven't touched once since then, in the thought that I'd never need such a camera.
The thing with my professional camera, though, is that it's perfect. I mean, that's good. As a professional photographer, you don't have to worry that a too-high ISO at a wedding party might ruin your whole series. But there is barely any room for imperfections at all. People buy filters and presets to make their pictures look less perfect. And besides that, my well-loved Sony A7 III with the big lens on it might be great for high-quality photography, but it's also incredibly annoying to carry it around just for fun.
After setting up this oldish camera from my grandpa (I mean, it's still relatively new from 2014 or something like that), I was inspired to go out again and explore photography like back in the days, when it was my favorite thing to go out for little photo adventures and explore the world through a lens, not thinking about the technology or things like that so much.
With the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ61 I had a similar experience. I wandered through the botanical garden with curiosity, looking at plants from all angles and perspectives, trying to find something new and exciting. And when looking at the images on the computer, I was feeling kind of nostalgic because of all the little imperfections - the blurry edges, the missed focal points, the light leaks and reflections...
With the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ61 I had a similar experience. I wandered through the botanical garden with curiosity, looking at plants from all angles and perspectives, trying to find something new and exciting. And when looking at the images on the computer, I was feeling kind of nostalgic because of all the little imperfections - the blurry edges, the missed focal points, the light leaks and reflections...
It's a great reminder that the camera is not the important thing when it comes to creativity in photography.
