Fun parody about photographers who only care about gear

Friday 7 February 2020, 16:16 by Michelle Peeters | 4,993 views | 3 comments

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Filmmaker and YouTuber Dave Maze ended the year on a humorous note. His music video 'Gear Guy' is a parody of Billie Eilish's song 'Bad Guy', but for photographers and videographers who are completely focused on having the best possible gear.

The song and accompanying music video really need no introduction, assuming you are familiar with Billie Eilish's hit song 'Bad Guy'.

"Gear Guy" is simply Maze's way of paying tribute to their favourite forum warriors: those masters of microcontrast and sharpness who are more interested in owning the latest gear (and possibly photographing a few lens charts) than actually doing anything with it.

Of course, the same applies to a certain subset of videographers.

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Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.

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3 comments

Huub Keulers wrote on Sunday 9 February 2020 at 09:31 | reply
Great video Michelle! Deep down we're all gear guys and I think there are fewer gear women than gear guys.
This parody is a good message to the gear guys among us.
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Paulussie wrote on Tuesday 11 February 2020 at 15:41 | reply
I really can't relate to the first article in this newsletter, because I don't enjoy taking part in competitions😵. It's always someone else who walks away with the prize anyway......
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Robert wrote on Tuesday 11 February 2020 at 16:35 | reply
Hehe nice video Michelle. I once won a prize in Almere with my sports photo. A jury member asked if I wanted to join their little photo club? That's okay, I said, nice, I'll come by sometime. Oh, he snapped back at me, that D200 is a lot worse than Nikon's D300. I looked at him and snapped back; ' who won a sports prize here with that "inferior" camera!? You or me?
What a twit....! Another one of those gear types. Awful. No, I never went to visit his little club....hehe
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