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A brief history of photography

A brief history of photography

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A brief history of photography

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- Those of you who've watched some of my other courses have already heard me rant about the importance of working a shot. Hopefully you followed that advice and learned for yourself that you often only find the right composition for a scene by moving about the scene and experimenting a lot. As you get more experience, you might find that your initial shots are closer to the correct, final shot than they used to be. Simply put, the more you shoot the more you know what works. And so with experience you might find yourself skipping over certain problems that you used to have to shoot your way through. I also feel that with experience you learn to reocognize more potential shots and more potential subject matter. Over time with practice, your eyes will simply become trained to better recognize a good photo. This is why if you're serious about photograpohy, you need to study photo history. You've got over 150 years of photographers…

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