Originally Posted by onehundred80
Good camera's are not needed to take good photographs, the old brownie's were capable of great shots. The first photo here is not balanced and the second is a multi-layered picture like the first one in this thread, with actually more layers than the first.
It helps when you are able to really adjust settings like exposure time and apeture. Point and shoot cameras do not take the best pictures because they rely on a 14(?)% gray balance. The amount of detail impressed me moreover the composition of the shot itself, although they both exhibit good compostion.
As you said the nikon d300 was used. I just looked and it is a 12.3 megapixel dslr. legit stuff.