>>3242662>For an example(although I am pretty new) I like Macro photography, and I went from this quality (pic related) on a point and shoot with a close-up filter, to this quality (pic below) with a DSLR and a dedicated macro lens. and I'm sure there are some cameras/phones, out there that don't even have the possibility to take macro at all.You're using this as an example that gear does or doesn't matter?
The top shot is far better because it's composed and focused to highlight the subject and the environment, it's showing the natural twists and turns of the world the subject lives in, it uses contrasting complimentary colours, etc, etc
These are all things you don't need gear to do, so you're right, gear doesn't matter and the photographers choices made the top image better than the bottom
But at the same time when you're taking exactly the same shot with two different lenses obviously one is going to be better than the other
Better gear is better in controlled comparisons but 9 times out of 10 a better photographer on a worse camera will make better images of the same situation. As you narrow the margin of skill levels and similarly, as you narrow the margin of gear quality, eventually those two overlap more and more until even the best photographers in the world with a lego camera can't match an idiot with a top of the range DSLR in auto
Stop trying to see things in black and white and understand that anyone can get lucky, but having more skill makes you more "lucky" more of the time and in more different situations
