Just to Inflame you.

[Luke]

But I think everyone agrees the mark a real photographer is being able to know what caused the picture to be great, and being able to reproduce it. If you know why the auto shot was great, you can force it for another customer. Otherwise you have to wait for that same set of remarkable circumstances so your auto camera can capture just he right combination of depth and speed.

That said let me join the other side a second. An overwhelming majority of the shot's value is in how it is composed. The lighting came make a good shot great. But it can't make a bad shot anything but an inspired bit of trash. I have a room full of those by the way. So I'm not pointing fingers at anyone else.

These are the opinions of a hopelessly behind the times photographer.

i agree fully, though i think lighting is around as important as composition.