[GEli]

Send a pro out to an empty warehouse with a disposable camera and they will come back with a whole roll of amazing shots. Send out someone who's never taken a frame before in their life with a D3 to a studio housing a professional model and you will get almost nothing useable. Experience and knowledge is absolutely everything.

A chisel and hammer does not a sculptor make.

Originally Posted by Clockdoc I

I tought their would be more of a slit between composition and post processing. Because I find that since I bought my first digital camera (about a month ago) I have been taken more pictures on a broader scale and cropping them later for composition. So I guess this is something I should stop and go back to composing the original shot ???

You still end up relying on knowing the fundamentals of composition and how to set up a good shot - you're just not experienced enough yet to be able to do it on the fly, and are using technology as crutches to let you still eventually obtain useable shots after the fact. You at least have to know what you need to include in the frame to make it useable later. A new photographer will end up throwing out a lot more shots outright because they are completely un-fixable. This is of course fine and a great learning tool - you'd do the same thing with film, but it would cost a lot more. One day, though, you'll find yourself not having to edit as much and having a lot more useable stuff come straight out of the camera.