Mt Spokane Photography said:
Yet once again proving that the photographer is 90% of the equation.
That's only half of the story.
You need to use the right tools for the job, but - let's fact it - these static, staged, controlled (and to my eyes,
stultifyingly dull, banal and clichéd) images would hardly present a technical challenge to a cheap mobile phone's imaging capabilities.
But the same photographer, with the same gear, would probably be dead in the water trying to shoot fast sport, birds in flight, aircraft, etc.
So "90% the photographer" ain't going to work there. The gear
and the talent count equally once you're shooting anything more challenging than this stuff, and it doesn't matter how good a photographer is if the kit simply can't deliver.
You can "take great photos with modest equipment" if what you're trying to achieve is as modest in scope and ambition as the equipment...