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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
I have consistently used some very basic and not too expensive gear (eg. DSLR and triopd and not much else) to good effect, indeed some of my best images use nothing more than a good camera/lens on a tracking mount or tripod.
Simply walking out into your back yard and taking a quick time exposure (roof tops and all) is a great recipe for a boring image IMHO (unless ET just landed).
Finding a great landscape to frame a celestial event takes effort....yet it amazes me how few make that effort.
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Exactly right. It is artistry over over conformity. Pushing the envelope of mind an soul means more in "quality" than just following everyone else. (Like taking the ten millionth picture of a "perfect" M42 / Orion nebula pic! What
IS the point?)
IMO far more than ten people do that in Australia.
In the end it is like being an art critic compared to, say, someone who has perfect level of technical excellent and has absolutely no idea of what some image means or portrays.
The difference is between just clicking the shutter or actually formulating some unique masterpiece.
The real problem with amateur imaging in Australia, IMO, we have an overabundance quality artisans! Separating them is like separating again the ingredients of some "Michelin star's" own cooking delicacy. You cannot do it...
The final results is really just as it is!
