5 Tips for BETTER PHOTOS! Cheap Cameras can help!

Tony & Chelsea offer some unusual tips on getting better photos, including why a cheaper camera might improve your phtoography.

[WilliamJohnston]

When my daughter was born, I knew I wanted photos of her with my good camera (over my phone), but I knew I’d take thousands of images, and keeping up with the full editing workflow would become unsustainable… I decided to still use my full frame camera, star my faves in camera and download those as small jpegs straight to my phone, that way I get the look I like from my camera in a quick and manageable file and I’m really glad I did it this way!

[richardwhitehand]

This is one of the best videos you guys have ever done, and I have watched goodness knows how many. Just spot on.

[AprilClayton]

Photo books are truly something that has changed my photography as well. I actually made one of squirrels throughout the different seasons. I started to recognize certain squirrels and their unique mannerisms. Your show has substance for the mind

[rubenanacleto]

The most important thing for me, it's if a pictures makes you feel. If the click and the result carries emotion

[aliawesomefab]

These two are the only acceptable “golden” couple of YouTube.
Wishing you all the best! ❤

[hfvhf]

Photography is about the subject, the story, the moment. Megapixels don't matter. Sharpness doesn't matter, ISO noise doesn't matter. The subject matters and your skills and artistic impression matter.

[watkinsphoto]

The old adage about the best camera being the one you have with you is so true. For me, that's my iPhone for both photo and video. But my Sony RX 100vii and DJI Osmo Pocket 3 are also easy to bring along. I need to remember to take more photos of people and gatherings. I have a bit of a landscape bent that I need to break, at least somewhat.

[sevdarasdaras]

I recently tried an old Kodak Camera with 4MP. The pictures are awesome and on the iPhone screen they look absolutely stunning. The camera is from 2005.

[ItsMidasProductions]

Shooting video has made my photography better. Specifically, controlled narrative. You have to slow down and internalize so much that it transformed my photography into being much more “cinematic” and stylized. Now it’s not about capturing the subject, but capturing the subject in a specific way that I just kove

[JBDinitzen]

The absolute best video You ever did!- 'working together made the photo so much better'! Can we just pause here for a second!

[cmflyer]

Slowing down always helps. Vacations and trips tend to be run, run, run! Being able to explore a site slowly for a longer time reveals better compositions.

[mattbrown]

I like this. Getting back to how we took pictures when there was no social media. I think the answer is simple, really. If you’re taking pictures for money, gear matters. Mostly. If you’re taking pictures to memorialize your life and to have to look back on with nostalgia later, just have fun for crying out loud. Just play. Enjoy the moment, snap it, and keep enjoying it. 🤷‍♂️

[mikkosuhonenphotography]

I was happy to get more comments on my printed photos than what people liked and commented on social media. Also the social situation made me feel better than just seeing notifications on my mobile device. Giving someone a finished print as a gift 👌

[br]

I just got a "real" camera a few months ago, and the freedom it gives me over my camera phone is great. I love my iphone camera, but I can't change lenses on it to go wider, or zoom in if I want.

[kzbay]

I take pictures because it makes me explore new places.

[ruialex]

Growing up I was always surrounded by big cameras, I hated carrying them and lenses, I always loved photography but hated that aspect of it…not only till phones started taking pics that I really realized how much I loved photography.
I didn’t get my first professional camera till I was 32…became a pixel peeper and focused too much on the technical aspect of it, now I go back to all those years and see all those nice photos that were taken lack that detail that recent cameras have but are still great photos and started focusing more on capturing the moments like you guys said and enjoying everything much more.
Got myself an original Leica Q used and I take that one everywhere, even stopped upgrading my phone every year. Have to say one thing though nowadays I wish I could back in time and play with all those cameras my father had that looked too cumbersome back then

[asref-oy]

Thank you for sharing these authentic thoughts about photography! That was very interesting.

[MontrencoPerez]

I just came from a 7 days cruise vacation and what I took with me was only my old Nikon D80 with the 35mm f/1.8 (plus my Pixel 8 Pro). The pictures with that old camera came awesome (no editing required), I like them better than the pictures taken with the phone.

[picsaregreat]

Thanks, you hit the nail on the head. Loved your perspective. You guys have traveled through the foto world, and shared to my delight many experiences that I never could have had. Thanks again

[RipeOldBanana]

This is definitely a video worth watching. As said, it's about the people and the moment.