What do you use to capture remarkable moments when you are traveling?
Do you really need a high-end camera to have a proof of your experience?
Do you need advanced technology to show beauty?
I don’t think so.
Forget about the double standard
Technology is becoming more advanced today and as a result we adapt to a more modernized society. Back then, all that is important is to take good pictures and it does not matter what you use. In this day and age, it is the exact opposite. The equipment you use portrays a significant factor in everything that you do.
A perfect example of this is taking photographs when you are traveling. People say it is preferably to have a DSLR camera to take pictures and videos. This should be the problem. Our priority seemed to have changed. We confuse enjoyment with keeping up with the trends. We are now forgetting the essence of experience, traveling, and preserving memories.
Don’t problematize the simple things
“Wala naman akong magandang camera dahil walang budget.”
“‘Di bale may camera naman kaibigan ko hihingi na lang ako ng kopya ng pictures.”
These were only few of the things that I have heard and have said myself. It is common for people, particularly the teenagers (I would not exclude myself), to be stressed out with this kind of things.
Let us not make our lives miserable even more. Don’t problemize things that were not even called problems. Madaragdagan lang ang kunot sa noo niyo at lalaki lang ang eyebags niyo sa kapo-problema ng mga bagay na hindi naman dapat problemahin!
Use available resources
“I want you to learn on your own so you should learn to start doing things on your own. Well, I believe you can do it.”
- Ms. Gerby Muya
I remember our instructor told us one meeting not to hire professional photographers who, not to mention have various equipment that are good to have BUT, not necessary.
Just like you should not problematize simple things, you should not also dwell on things that you don’t have. Being envious of others who can afford such expensive equipment is alright but, crying and moping about it will not take you anywhere. As I already mentioned we have advanced technology today. What is the use of your smart phone camera if you don’t actually use it?
You’re saying your phone is not that high-end or “smart”? Sharing with your friends who have the equipment can be your last resort.
Simplicity should be the policy
Years ago when the technology was not yet this “smart” you are contented with the big and heavy phones with cameras and or the point and shoot digital cameras.
What happened now?
Sumikat lang nang bongga ang 600D, 700D, at hanggang ilang daang “D” pa ‘yan ayaw na kumuha ng pictures gamit ang lumang technology?!
Always remember that even if it is good to be attracted to complicated things because it is a sign of creativity, we should also try to appreciate simplicity. Know that the more advanced the technology is the more complex it gets and the more chance it could get you to trouble. Moreover, being able to show great beauty using small things has a bigger points of creativeness.
Be attracted to simple things. Do simple things. Use simple things! Add this to your policies.
Nature don’t need your filters
“Ang low tech ng camera mo tapos ang baba pa ng megapixel. Pangit kumuha ‘yan!”
Sounds like a bull to me.
Here’s a question I would like to ask you instead, what do you use before “the coming of age” of high end cameras? Wasn’t it cell phone cameras, point and shoot cameras, and video cameras? At saka, sino ba kukuha? Ikaw naman ‘di ba hindi ‘yong camera?
One more important point here, especially when you are in travel or vacation and there are lovely views of nature laid bare in front of you, what you should do is just to take it all in and take a shot of its beauty. What you use to do it does not matter! Nature is beautiful as it is because it’s a gift from The Creator of all things in this world before our existence.
No excuses
You might say that what if you are not photogenic or that you don’t look good in a certain shot. Why should you worry? It was not you that is important in the “picture” it was the background that is! What is the point in the first place that you are taking a whole body shot with a wide background anyway? Is it not so you could show it to your friends to “ipagyabang” and let them “mainggit” (“to brag and let others envy you”) because you have been to places they have not been to? The chances are greater that they would be praising that place than they would criticize your pose and your face.
Isa pa, hindi lang naman sa ganda ng gadget nakukuha ang totoong kagandahan. Anggulo, anggulo rin ‘yan. (Being able to show beauty does not depend on the gadget you are using. You can get it with the right angle.) Just take your time taking pictures and you’ll get what you’re aiming to.
Experimental evidences
Providing proofs would be required for this article to be persuasive enough. Therefore I followed through what I had planned which is to take pictures of anything that catches my attention during our second viaje using only our still alive and “clicking” point and shoot digital camera.
Before, I thought that a point and shoot camera only works how it is called. But recently, since we were being taught with basic photography I realized that those data being displayed in the camera setting were not there as mere displays. I started to play with the settings and formats of our digital camera and it began to make sense to me.
I browsed through the “mode” button and tried to take pictures with every categories of format available, of course apart from the “smart auto”: program, DIS, scene, and movie. Under each setting that can also be adjusted through white balance (color temperature), ISO (the sensitivity of camera to light), and exposure (the amount of light that fills the image).
This is just simply saying that no matter how not advanced your equipment is you should take what you can. Keep a copy of the remarkable moments you are in. Therefore, you would not regret later what you didn’t.
Please, check out the sample shots and believe!
(NOTE: this is the full version of my article from our travel magazine (still on progress), which serves as our project/major exam)
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