[ir77]

this is like a rambling of a mad man, it reminds me of the many, many posts on any XXX photo gear forum where majority of the time people will dedicate their time arguing about edge sharpness performance of lenses or pixel peeping and only a small portion of the forum is dedicated to actual pictures, and when you see those pictures you quickly close out of the forum because 99% are visually just not interesting.

use the auto mode and don't worry about it. if you acutally want to have some control then learn the relationship between shutter speed, aperture and ISO. I learned this very long time ago through a Sunny 16 rule on my Leica M6 and outdoors during the day that rule works just fine with today's digital cameras that have 8+ stops of dynamic range anyways.

otherwise photography is about in interesting picture. unless you crop it so much that it's so pixilated that it hurts your eyes no one will scrutinize it or chastise the photographer that they took it with a tripod or cropped it and this article is just a gigantic self serving vent that really doesn't give anyone any better advice on photos.

here's an example of acceptable cropping of a very iconic image: https://i.redd.it/6lpvu9dzkv111.jpg

[majgr]

True. Good photo is either good light or something extraordinary happening - that is content quality. Technical quality is all that noise, edge sharpness, full frame, and this does not matter. If 40 years ago people were able to create masterpieces on 135 film, then it is also doable using camera in cellphone.