Complex sentence: In addition to knowing the fundamentals of photography, successful still life photographers are intimately familiar with the tools of this field: tremendous studio lighting skills, ability to use large format view cameras, a strong visual technique, and distinctive stylistic approach.
Split into simpler sentences: In addition to knowing the fundamentals of photography, successful still life photographers should be intimately familiar with still life techniques. They must have tremendous studio-lighting skills, the ability to use large-format view cameras, have a strong visual technique, and have a distinctive stylistic approach.