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Equipment You Need to Start Photography

3/12/2020

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GEAR 👏🏻DOESN'T 👏🏻 MATTER⁠⁣⁣ (When you start out)
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Honestly, you do not need an expensive camera, fancy lighting, or an outrageous lens to get started. The key is just starting. Everyone has a cellphone with a camera on it. You have the tools you need right in your pocket.
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Some of the best creators on Instagram right now only use their iPhones. And as they say “The best camera you have is the one you have on you”⁣⁣ I once had to use my cell phone for a real estate gig because my camera lens wasn’t wide enough for some shots and the client didn’t even notice.


Don’t believe me? Checkout these 5 random Mobile Photographers who are killing it right now. ⁣⁣
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Taken by @britannia6009⁣⁣ on IG
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Taken by @the__phonetographer⁣⁣ on IG
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Taken by @jeromerafael⁣⁣ on IG
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Taken by @enricabresciaph⁣⁣ on IG
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Taken by @barbaranebel⁣⁣ on IG
The gear you use doesn’t matter when you start out. It's about the story, the creativity, the composition, and the emotions behind the photo. What’s most important is just start. I shot with a cellphone for years before I got my first camera. ⁣⁣

Plus, if you don't teach yourself the principles and techniques of photography, it won't matter if you have a nice camera, because your photos will look like garbage. One of my most popular photos (The Pittock Mansion) was taken on my cell phone because that’s the only camera I had on me at the time.⁣⁣

Professional photographer Sephi Bergerson shot an entire wedding on his iPhone 6s Plus and were the results as good as they would have been with a camera? No. But were the bride and groom happy? Yes. Did he get paid? Yes. and that's all that matters. Making your clients happy
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Taken by me @KickassDesigns on IG
Same can be said for video. In fact did you know the Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh made his latest film Unsane using an iPhone 7 Plus, and the accolades the film has received suggest it was worth the risk. Did you know Lady Gaga‘s music video Stupid Love was shot on an iPhone 11 pro as well as Selena Gomez's Lose you to Love me video? And check out this epic snowball fight filmed by the great John Wick Director David Leitch on an iPhone 11 pro.
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Now before you show this to a gear head and they lose their mind over the thought of someone using a cellphone for business keep in mind I'm only suggesting starting with a cell phone and upgrading when you're ready. There is no dispute, a camera lens will always take Higher Quality images than a cellphone. i.e. more pixels. and a cellphone will never give you that great depth of field you can get with a camera.
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Say it with me:

The👏🏻equipment👏🏻doesn’t👏🏻make👏🏻the👏🏻photographer.

Do you agree? ⁣⁣
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