My iPod usually isn’t far from me, and most of the time it’s playing photography podcasts. A couple days ago I was catching up on This Week in Photography, thinking about my two degrees of separation to the show. Jenny Stein, who was my second shooter at Jennifer & Parker’s wedding at Armstrong Farms, is the sister of Alex Lindsay, one of the show’s hosts.
Still… I was a little surprised to hear Alex specifically mention Jenny. The podcast featured a question from a listener about what makes a good picture: a good camera or a good photographer.
The answer, of course, is that it’s the photographer that makes the picture. A good photographer can take a good picture regardless of what camera s/he is using. And you can’t just hand a good camera to someone with no experience and expect that they’re going to get a good picture.
Alex said: “”My sister is profoundly talented. I could always look at the roll when she picked up my camera and there’ll be my photos, which are good, and there are her photos, which are like Time-Life good. She was able to do that no matter what camera she had, the way that she framed it, the moment she hit the button.”
Way to go, Jenny!
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Christina! So sweet of you to write such a nice post about your second! :)