> You know, where you put some light sensors in front of something you did not create yourself and pretty much just collect the photons that bounce off it. I'm

> You know, where you put some light sensors in front of something you did not create yourself and pretty much just collect the photons that bounce off it. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the original in this case was a studio shot, in which the lighting, background, angle of photography, and positioning of the subject were all chosen by the photographer in service of the vision that yielded the artifact generated by "collecting photons". Even outside a studio, a photographer has a lot of control over all of the variables. Weather is about the only thing they don't. To reduce photography to such extremes is akin to saying coding is pretty much typing. By the time that happens, a lot of creativity has already been spent.