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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
To expand on that - it's a combination of the photographer's willingness to thoroughly learn his camera's capabilities through practice...practice...practice - an ability to visualize and compose in an aesthetic way, and a photographer's willingness to take whatever effort is needed to get a desired shot.
We all have our own methods, practices and tricks of the trade - knowing where your strengths and talents are is the key to it.
I would jokingly add - it's not the camera that makes the photographer - it's PHOTOSHOP!
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I completely disagree with Photoshop making a good or great photographer!!
Photoshop is to enhance or repair mistakes that a photographer did not get right out of the camera! I was shooting back in the day with chrome and we did not have photoshop, you only had a darkroom, or your local walgreens.. lol
A good photographer will get it right out of the camera and use Photoshop to enhance or create a more interesting image by manipulating the photo with effects and so forth.
Like for example, i see too many great photographers use the hell out of Portraiture!! It makes the model look fake, the skin does not look real. I would rather beat off looking at a girls natural skin, knowing exactly what she looks like when i am with her in person.
I do use photoshop to heal out a scar or mole, but i do not over correct the models skin.