Photographers Really Shouldn't Care About These Things

We all get caught up with various things in photography that we fixate over or just worry a bit too much about, but what should we really not be worrying about?

I have made pretty much every mistake when it comes to wasting my time in researching various aspects of photography or simply fixating on things that really don't matter, scrimping and saving to buy something way out of my price range, only to realize that no one can tell the difference.

In this video, I talk about the main things that us lovely photographers often end up overly caring about that no one else outside of the online digital photography community really thinks about. I am sure the list could be far longer than what I managed to come up with, so please do let me know of anything that springs to mind in the comments below. 

My personal one is over-researching camera and lens purchases. I currently shoot with a mid-to-high-end level kit that I lost far too much sleep over and doesn't really offer that much more over my previous setup (bar bragging rights). My current one is looking into overly expensive power packs that offer huge amounts of watts for my lamps at a very short flash duration, even though I haven't photographed a moving subject in about eight years. 

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Food Photographer from the UK. Not at all tech savvy and knows very little about gear news and rumours.

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I'm definitely guilty of over-researching camera and lens purchases. Another one is installing way more LUT's and plugins than I actually need.

You and your videos are a highlight on fstoppers! Thank you!

Well, that is exactly what is all about it: A guy who talks about his experiences and not making a fuss about them (and that is what I do like). Since you are so experienced and have such a long history, you are clearly not a member of the target group.

Certainly too much emphasis on the technical side of photography that non photographers don’t care about like how sharp lenses are and the quality of out of focus areas no one is looking at anyway. Also non photographers don’t care about wide open, shallow depth of field and how sharp corner to corner the shallowest aperture is. Too much emphasis on ‘must have features’ in cameras too, even though none of them will actually help people improve their photography. Learning to take great photos doesn’t need a top level camera and lenses.

They don’t care about wide open, shallow dof, how sharp corners are. They just say « I want background blurred and person on the right, as we need to put text on the left »