The Art of Photography

What makes what we as professional photographers do still a viable and necessary function for you our clients.  It's an ART!

Companies such as Apple and Samsung launch their flagship phones, and people go wild over the cameras. Soon enough, we hear someone saying the death of the DSLR camera is near. But are these smartphones really catching up to the cameras that professional photographers use?  What makes a DSLR better?

Photographers know the biggest difference in using a phone and a DSLR is the sensor.  That alone is enough to create that chasm.

The sensor is the base technology of how a camera works. The larger the size of the sensor, the more light it can capture. The more light a sensor can capture, the more detailed and true your photos look.

Typically, a DSLR camera’s sensor will be one of the following: From Full Frame: 36 x 24 mm (the largest and most used by professionals) to the Top point-and-shoot cameras (e.g. Sony RX100 II) feature 1-inch sensors (and in between: APS-C: 23.6 x 15.6 mm / 1.5-inch: 18.7 x 14 mm Mirrorless cameras have 4/3-inch (17.3 x 13 mm) sensors)  

Want to take a guess at the sensor size of smartphone cameras? The Google Pixel 2, arguably the best smartphone camera today, has a sensor measuring 1/2.6 inches (5.5 x 4.1 mm).   So a DSLR’s sensor is anywhere between 4-6 times larger than a smartphone’s sensor.  Simply put, more light equals a better image. 

The best advantage of photography is the PHOTOGRAPHER!  Knowing how and when to use the light supplied to the camera, the settings on the camera and when to use what lense.  All of these things are useless if the person holding the camera isn't skilled at what they are doing.  The art of photography is in the artist doing the photographing.