Which is the most important to you?

[Dmitri]

Feel free to explain.

 

[Forkie]

Which what?

 

[Dmitri]

Which what?

lol ok I guess it posts the message before the poll was done.

 

[Trever1t]

I voted subject but your poll really has no context. Best for what? I love breakfast!

 

[Dao]

I vote for something else, -> My family

 

[Forkie]

Which what?

lol ok I guess it posts the message before the poll was done.

Ok, yes it's there now!

I chose 'Subject' because it was my interest in the the things around me, i.e. wildlife, that made me want to take photos of them.

 

[MichiganFarts]

The delete button. I use that the most.

 

[Derrel]

I chose the subject; without the subject, the photo would be...well..without a subject...

 

[enzodm]

I chose the breakfast, because it includes the subject of breakfast, the orange juice in the glass, how sunlight falls over my coffee, postprocessing occurring in my stomach, and also something else.

 

[Davor]

I also choose subject, but.. Without light how are you going to see your subject, hence they are useless without each other.

 

[mfrankpdx]

I chose light. When I first started photography, I heard this great quote. It may not be verbatim, but it was something very close to this... "Amateurs think about gear, pros think about money, and masters think about light." That has stuck with me since my very first weeks in photography.

 

[KmH]

You left out a choice: All Of The Above.

 

[bentcountershaft]

I'm not shooting a damn thing until I've had breakfast.

 

[NielsSw]

I can't vote on this because it doesn't make any sense to me. Is this about photography? Why is there breakfast in the options? :scratch:

 

[Overread36]

What about inspiration?

Photography is like a cake - its not a single important ingredient to get the final product; its a series of good ingredients - good mixing - good cooking and good icing. Try to cheapen/remove/reduce any one part of the process and the final result will suffer. In some cases (eg poor lighting) you might be able to fix it up in post just and a good camera body and lens might let you get away with it = other times (like the missing subject) its just going to fail because the key parts are missing.

How far you can allow each part to weaken and where you have to put more effort in to correct/counter is going to come down to a shot by shot basis - some cases you'll have the gear and the know how to make inferior lighting still work good - other times you won't.