Re: Many good points - however
It's the combination of a lot of things that produce a great shot...
Opportunity, Creative vision, luck, location, gear, light, time of day, timing, patience and skill...
My observation over the last years is that most want to skip: Getting up at dawn for the best light, learning the skill and patience
What most tend to do nowadays is believe that Canon or Nikon provide the technology for making up for all of the above
In the main, to start of with (besides creative vision), you need great light, and if you don't have great light, you need to add it yourself. If you cant change this, you are pushing the water uphill before you started. You then need a great composition... that can mean working that extra bit harder to climb the mountain to get things right.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
