Quote - When I ask for help and guidance in a photography forum, no Pro tells me my camera is crap and I should buy the $10,000 camera and lenses he uses. Instead, he tells me the opposite. He says "You're skills are not good enough to use a Nikon D3X and Pro glass. Learn to use the features of the camera you have first." If I get poor results with the D90, I will get poor results with the D3X.

AMEN!!!  

I'm seriously tired, on a personal level, of App bashing.  First of all, you can never get the same results out of two different applications and/or renderers.  Second, instead of worrying about which high-end renderer will make my XYZ render look SUPER UBER AWESOME, I worry about how to make my skills in what I have available better.  I hear all of this talk about using $1k + programs....and then I'm reminded, Anton modelled Apollo in a free app.  Big Buck Bunny was created in Blender. 
It's not the tools, it's how you use it.  And when someone teaches you how to fake or get a similar effect, rather than saying "Well, you could spend $1k and get the real thing", how about actually trying it?  Not to poo-pooh Lightwave.  It does awesome, AMAZING things.  But, unless I somehow become independently wealthy, I'll never be able to justify its' purchase, LIKE MANY PEOPLE HERE.  Even then, there's another program to learn, and, I don't know about anyone else, but, unless that program also adds another 12 hours onto the standard day for me...I don't have that kind of time in my life.

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