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Visualization
When I’m helping a student set up a shot, I always ask three questions: Have you refined your composition (chapter 6)? What is your exposure strategy (chapter 7)? And, perhaps most important of all, how could you make the best possible rendition of the subject you have chosen to photograph?
With that third question, I’m not asking what more the student could do at that moment. The first two questions largely address that task. I’m asking the student to visualize possibilities that don’t exist at that instant. What if the student came back at sunset? What parts of the subject would be lit? Would the sun be in the frame? What if the student returned the next morning at sunrise? What if the student came back at the right time in ...
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