I dunno what drives nadin to even think she's getting Life magazine-quality photographs from her expensive "big rig."
Myself, I loathe and detest cameras, and buy one about oh, once every five years, just to take photographs of the cats, and some of my by-chance photographs of the cats look better, capturing something of their soul. It's by accident, of course.
I think nadin would simplify her life greatly by discarding all the junk she carries around, and simply the next time she goes to "cover" something, stopping first at the convenience store to buy three or four $5 disposable cameras.
Reminds me that the best photos I have ever taken were with a waterproof throw a way.
Someone mentioned never hearing a Pro talk about their gear. I did and it confused the heck out of me.
Some time early 1970's at a party the host a young Officer was telling me he was going up North to the red woods with his Cannon and shoot the trees.
Yah I know I have not really changed that much in all these years.
I blearted out " Why on earth would you want to do that" ?
Poor guy, tells me he wants to go into photography some day. Now I am really confused.
Hubby comes over to sit next to me and I whisper to him, this friend of yours is not right in the head. Now there were 3 totally confused people, the Host, me and Hubby.
So Hubby wants to know why I would think such a thing-------So I tell him that this weekend his friend was going to blow up some Red Woods then take pictures of the damage.
Hubby casually asks the Host about his weekend plans and the Host says more or less what he had told me. He left the room for a minute or so and came back with his new very expensive camera with a bag of different lenses one had to have weighed 5 pounds big sucker.
AH the ignorance of youth, and the folly of people trying to impress others with their hobby's and using terms outside the listeners knowledge.