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The photographer The camera The editing softwareWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I would say the Photographer, he/she is the brains behind the operation!. His/her vision is the single most important thing with a 'good' photograph!. There are two aspects to Photography the 'mechanical / craft' side and the aesthetic, both rely on the knowledge and experience of the photographer!. The aesthetics are how you record the scene in front of you, for example if you wanted a silhouette you would expose for the bright sky behind the subject, if you want to record the subject as well as the sky you may use a 'fill in flash' or you may expose for the subject and let the sky burn out, or you can record both and use software to combine the image!. All of these techniques are used to realise the final result, all depend on the knowledge and experience of the photographer!. Then there's using aperture to control depth of field, the list goes on, its a long way removed from the 'snappers' point and hope, a good photographer will know exactly what result they are going to get before they press the shutter!. The camera is probably the least important of the three, being just a light tight box, sensor/film with a shutter in it!. OK it will have more 'bells and whistles' than that, but basically thats all it is!. The software can be important, but if you take the picture properly very little needs to be done!. Combining images requires quality software, but quality software comes with a load of tools, all of which need mastering, were back to the photographer again!. One item I would add to your list is the lens, a good quality of lens is far more important than the camera and effects directly the quality of image!. ChrisWww@QuestionHome@Com The photographer!. If you put it in the terms of philosophical argument, the photographer is a necessary AND sufficient cause for a good photograph!. Cameras and software (or darkroom equivalents) are necessary but not sufficient!. Defining photographer as referring to anyone who causes an image to be recorded purposefully and to some criteria, you would also cover those situations where the actual image is recorded strictly as a mechanical reaction to situations matching those criteria!. Someone selected the criteria that would cause an image to be recorded, so fulfills the complete role of a photographer by definition!. This generalizes the term photographer and you can derive 'A photographer is a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a photograph!.' Short form: Without the photographer you don't have anything!. You don't have 'good' photographs, or 'bad' photographs (based on some criteria of 'good'/'bad')!. Have fun!. VanceWww@QuestionHome@Com The photographer because it is the photographer who selects the subject, creates the composition, chooses the settings and executes the photograph in way that will achieve the desired result within the capabilities of the camera and its associated accessories!. A good camera in the hands of a poor photographer may produce a good photo by chance but is more likely to produce a 'snapshot', which may be all that is required by many users!. That does not make it a good photograph by any objective measure!. Of course you could debate whether there is an objective measure of photographic quality but that was not the thrust of your question!. The editing software is not what I would regard as part of taking a good photo!. You can use it make an interstesting or effective secondary image out of a flawed photograph!. Unless a photographer captured the required basic image in a usable form, you have nothing to work on!. The idea of 'editing software' is irrelevant to those of us who still prefer film so it can never be the most important factor to us!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The photographer!. To make a good photograph requires knowledge of composition, f-stops, ISO and shutter speed!. That knowledge is not in any camera!. It exists in the human brain!. The most technologically advanced DSLR is still just a dumb box!. It may have programming to produce a good exposure under average conditions but point it at a backlit subject or a frontlit subject against a dark background or at white sand or snow and it fails!. Our backlit subject will be a silhouette; our frontlit subject will be washed out; our white snow or sand will be gray!. As far as the camera is concerned all of those examples will be correctly exposed!. The photographer has to know what to do in those non-average situations - and how to make the necessary corrections!. Editing software is good for removing blemishes or to slightly "tweak" a picture!. Unfortunately, it is too often used - in my opinion - as a way to try and make a bad picture into a good one!. For a better understanding of this, go to http://www!.shutterbug!.com and type 'get it right in the camera'!. You'll pull up an article by Steve Bedell in the May 2008 issue of Shutterbug!. The bottom line!? The photographer is, was, and always will be the main ingredient in good photography!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Please do your own homework!. I know this answer, but not willing to tell you!. However I am sure someone else already told you!. Then again, everyone may come up with a different answer!. So pick your own answer and see what your teacher has to say!.Www@QuestionHome@Com photographer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |