10. Seeing Like an Inspector
Figure 10.1. Eyeglasses. © Gene Chutka (istockphoto.com/gchutka)
The most significant obstacle to overcome when you produce photos for stock is how you judge your own finished work. It is perfectly natural to have emotional attachments to your photos due to the combination of the experiences that occur in their creation. Everything from the pre-production visions in your mind’s-eye, to what happened when the photos were captured, to everything you put into them during post-production can affect your perception of the final output.
Unfortunately, these attachments cloud our objectivity and cause us to overlook flaws ...
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