An amateur photographer uses the Sony A1, while a professional photographer uses the iPhone 13 Pro Max in a fun photography competition. Who WINS?

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** TRANSCRIPT **
Kevin Raposo here with speedyphotographer.com - and today, we’re going to be giving a beginner photographer the $10,000+ dollar Sony A1 camera, while giving a professional photographer the iPhone 13 Pro Max, and comparing their work to see what they come up with.

The first thing I noticed was the composition.

You can see right away how much more direct and intentional Luis is when framing up a shot. For example, when shooting the urban/architectural pictures, it barely took Luis five seconds to notice the glass-paneled skyscraper and start composing a layered shot with elements in the foreground and background.

You can really see his experience level when you put those shots up against the ones that A.J. took. For example: I can tell that A.J. was trying to incorporate the light posts into the foreground here, but they just ended up obscuring his view of the building.

Luis also made better use of leading lines - line in this shot, with the car in the foreground, or this candid street portrait - as well as the rule of thirds, like in this shot of the motorcyclist.

In comparison, A.J. was just kind of shooting what looked good because he didn’t have that firsthand experience and understanding of how to combine elements to create more depth.

The second thing I noticed was the editing.

You can tell just by looking at a couple of pictures that Luis did a lot to try and make his work stand out. He cropped the pictures, bumped up the saturation, boosted his shadows, added some clarity - and as a result, his pictures look a lot more complete.

Whereas A.J. wasn’t as familiar with editing, he didn’t really know much about how to use color and framing aside from adding some contrast - and as a result, his pictures look flat, almost like they came straight out of camera.

Now the third thing I noticed - and I saw this in both of you - it was your comfortability.

More specifically, both of you really struggled with the street portraits at first, but Luis became more comfortable with it over time, while A.J. did not.

There’s a reason why I picked this category for the competition - check this out.

These are the first few street pictures that Luis took. He didn’t submit these to me as part of the competition, but notice how they’ve all been awkwardly taken from behind, from eye level - you can clearly see that Luis is not comfortable with people noticing him. This didn’t come as a surprise to me, because he’s used to working in a studio setting.

But as time went on, you can see the pictures that he did submit to me in this category became significantly better. Luis was still shooting on an iPhone, so it was tough to get up-close and personal - but he starts getting a lot closer to his subjects and composing shots where people are actually facing the camera.

Moving on, the fourth thing I noticed was the timing. This was very obvious with some of the night photography.

I basically sent A.J. and Luis to a highway overpass and told them to come up with something interesting. I expected both of them would probably attempt to shoot light trails, and I was correct.

Now, I will say in advance that I felt none of these pictures were very good. A.J. was heavily relying on autofocus, so he submitted a couple of shots that were completely out of focus. Meanwhile, Luis was struggling to keep the iPhone steady on a windy night with a tiny tripod.

But the thing is, Luis did a much better job of timing his shots - you can see that his light trails actually fill out most of the shot - and this just comes down to him knowing his shutter speed, having a sense for exposure time, and understanding that you need to be patient when you’re shooting.

Again, his pictures were pretty blurry - but there’s a lot more going on than in A.J.’s pictures, which look like they were taken just after a single car passed by - he would see something, take the picture, and move on - and even then, they were still shot a bit late.

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** CHAPTERS **
0:00 Introduction
0:25 The Photographers
1:02 The Rules
2:04 The Shoot
3:32 Pictures by A.J.
4:15 Pictures by Luis
5:08 My Analysis
8:26 Skill Before Gear

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