Chasing the Light: Improving Your Photography with Available Light

Get the Gear out of the Way

This new sensibility made me less dependent on owning and using the latest equipment and software. Instead, I focused on the equipment that I already had and tried to master it. I didn’t need to understand every bell and whistle. I just had to come to grips with those controls and features that were most important in my effort to capture images that expressed how I felt.

As I focused my attention on those camera controls that impacted color, sharpness, contrast, exposure, and focus, I found myself less preoccupied with what my camera had or didn’t have. I wasn’t attributing the quality of my images to the grade of lens I was using or the year of production of the camera body. There would always be something new and ...