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Originally Posted by Kevin-SFBucks
but better equipment sure helps out a bunch, doesn't it?
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No it does not. You can't buy experience, "the eye for a shot" and the skill to reproduce it on film or digital.
In this market or any photography that uses people the ability to communicate, produce a full varied set, fit the niche and find the new models who will do as they are told and you can sell the work. The last part is the most important.
In fact it's the cruncher.
A better camera in the hands of a good pro will usually produce a better shot, in the hands of an average photographer it's a crap shoot, in the hands of a bad photographer he's wasting his money.
In the hands of a pornographers it's often irrelevant. A writer uses a computer, a better computer does not make him a better writer. We both create an illusion with a tool.
I once was lucky enough to stumble across a pro fashion photographer working in NY on the streets shooting fashion models. I introduced myself and asked, as a pro in another field, could I watch him work. His skill had nothing to do with his cameras, lights, reflectors, assistants. It was about him working with the models.