Of course the biggest problem evident on Photo.net is that most beginning photographers don't have any awareness of just how much conscious thought and manipulation takes place both before and after the fact.(posted 8239 days ago)Digressing from the original topic, this applies to most photographers on photo.net, beginning or not. Most are so hung up on believing that equipment and materials are the only important things to think about that they never get to thinking about the image itself. I don't like sounding so harsh, but it seems that the vast majority of the postings aren't very connected to the real image- making process.