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Remembering that your photographic vision matters

Remembering that your photographic vision matters

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Remembering that your photographic vision matters

- A few weeks ago, I was wandering around on a dried-up lake bed. My eye was caught by a play of tonality on the ground in the dead grass, an area that looked to me like a geographic shape. I took the shot, and then went on with my day. It was at least a week before I got around to looking at the image, and when I opened it up, I found this. Not very inspiring. My first reaction was, well, I guess what I was seeing just didn't really work. And I was actually about to delete the image when I thought, okay, now wait a minute, photography doesn't always work like that. Get busy. I'm assuming that when you look at this shot, you can see the shape that caught my eye. It's not lost in some fringes of the camera's dynamic range or anything, it's right there. It is, though, pretty subtle, and it's lost in the clutter and noise of the natural texture in the scene. In fact, when I opened the image after all those days, I was surprised to find that the shape is as subtle as it is, because in my…

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