If you're an amateur photographer, or even a professional photographer without a lot of money, you don't need it. Photography websites and magazines that feature expensive equipment are in it to make money. The manufacturers pay to advertise, and that's their selling point; buy our camera/lens/tripod/whatever, and you'll be a great photographer! Photography websites are completely missing the boat and are actually offending and turning away the average consumer. The majority of people today with a camera don't give two rips about expensive equipment. Websites and magazines about photography pimp extremely expensive lenses and other gear that most people don't dare to dream of having because none of it will never be in the budget.
I mean come on. Do you have $10,000 laying around for a telephoto lens?
My photography and the average person's photography is photography on-the-cheap. Great photographs, contrary to what seems to be popular belief, do not need expensive equipment, they are produced with creativity; an eye for composition; a technical skill for getting the right lighting on the front end; and the ability to make technical adjustments to turn mediocre shots into great ones after the shoot. You just have to be there at the right time to get that great shot. This is something that Nick Stubbs at All Things Photography taught me, and it was revolutionary for me because I always thought that great photography was out of my reach.
In reality, it's in everyone's reach. You just have to keep practicing.
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