my new 100mm macro
I teach an online class with the BPSOP, and I conduct workshops all over the world. I have also written a blog since 2011, and one comes out every five or six days.
I look for and find and see ideas from every corner of the globe, and under every rock…if necessary.
I happened to walk through the power tools at my local Loews and suddenly an idea hit me smack dab in the face. It was an analogy I drew from incidents that occurred along the way in my workshops.
So, my fellow photographers, imagine a carpenter with all his tools next to him or at least very close. For a specific job, he had purchased some new power tools and is about to start working. Here’s the problem, he hasn’t read the manual and doesn’t know all the functions of said tool.
Now, imagine me in my workshop I did in Prague many years ago. We were at a famous church , famous for the amazing Flying Buttress…”a buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports. and is connected to it by an arch.”
In any event, it was sunrise and a student came up to me with a Leica body and an assortment of lens that totaled $60,000. She had no idea how to use it and asked me if I could help. All I could do was to look at her as if she had just landed in an extraterritorial spacecraft of some kind.
In other words, I had no idea!!
It wasn’t the last time someone came to me for help with a new piece of equipment they had bought just for the workshop….which includes tripods of various sizes and shapes.
Know your gear, read the manual and practice with it BEFORE you go out in the real world to shoot those elusive ‘Wall Hangers’.
Visit my website www.joebaraban.com and follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/barabanjoe. Check out my workshop schedule at the top of this blog. Come shoot with me sometime.
JoeB
