I think that you play a huge (if not the majority) part in creating a good photo. You are responsible for the creation and composition and lighting of the image. For instance I recently was at the zoo, and I was able to take a shot I was really pleased with of a Dusk Leaf Monkey: http://www.timaustinimages.com/p1072951496/?photo=h378142D4#931218132
This image only came about the way it did because I knew to expose for white tufts of hair on his head, use fill flash for the face, stop down the aperture to increase sharpness due to the 2x teleconverter being used and increase the ISO to maximise shutterspeeed to minimise handshake. The equipment was more than up to the job, but you as the photographer have to control it to make the photo happen.
Having said that the camera cannot be entirely discounted. In some instances, the shot will simply allude you unless you have the appropriate equipment. For instance, I was shooting motor racing early last year where the background was really messing and the only way to avoid this was to pan with a really slow shutterspeed to blur out the background. The problem in doing this is you get a really low keeper rate, and the only way to get a keeper is to use a camera capable of high frames per second. I used a Canon 1d mark II shooting at 8.5 fps and this worked well, see the results of super slow shutterspeed and high fps at: http://www.timaustinimages.com/p845663576/?photo=h20BBB338#549172024
The Photographer
well even that professional camera cant take a pic without someone pushing some kind of button
Are you kidding me? Its the photographer. Yes a good camera helps, but its the talent that makes the good photo.
It's obviously a little of both. You can't take a good picture with a dirty lense, but a good photographer will know the right way to clean a dirty lense. I agree with you that a nice camera can benefit a beginner. If a camera is good (big sensor, quality lense) and chooses good parameters on the "auto" mode, then obviously a beginner is going to have better luck than with a camera with a tiny sensor and an auto mode that doesn't focus well in low light.
I entirely disagree with you. A good photographer can take amazing photos with a camera phone. Think of the wonderful photos that were made 70 years ago. The cameras certainly weren't that great by today's standards, but yet some are works of art (Ansel Adams comes to mind). In fact, Ken Rockwell goes into this subject in much more detail here, with comparisons and examples: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm
Both are important and it is the combination of skill, experience and choosing approriate equipment for the task that results in great pictures.
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It's mostly the photographer. A good photographer can take great pictures with any camera. This person would get the absolute best out of the camera. Someone who thinks it's just the camera would not know how to use all the features and only get basic images from a professional camera. It's in knowing how to set the lighting, focus, frame the subject, color balance, etc. Point and shoot cameras are good at automating this, DSLR's can also automate this, but the manual control really puts the person in charge to do amazing things.
Whether a $9.99 2mp digicam sold in a blister pack at Wal-Mart or a $34,000.00 39mp Hasselblad H3D II, the camera is just a dumb box. In the right hands either can be used to produce good images. Obviously the 2mp digicam won't produce images that can be enlarged to poster-size but a skilled photographer will extract every bit of its limited potential. The Hasselblad in the right hands will produce images suitable for billboards.
Give either to a person who knows little or nothing about photography and the results will be poor.
Its the photographer that makes the difference.
ALWAYS the photographer.
A good photographer with a decent camera will always get a better image than a bad photographer with a great camera.
a good photographer with a good eye. knows the insides and outs of his camera makes a good photo. good photographers can make a good photo out of only a half decent camera.
the only time i could think that the camera is more important is if it's like a dinky little 2 megapixel camera or something.
otherwise it's always the photographer and the equipment helps aid his work.
Think of what Picasso could have done with a #2 pencil.
If you have the tools, but not the artistic eye, you have nothing.
Good cameras make it easier. But creative vision makes it possible.
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