From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Taking a safari through your own images

Taking a safari through your own images

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Taking a safari through your own images

- One of the great advantages of shooting digitally is that you can review your images so quickly. You can, of course look at them on the back of the camera, but more importantly, you can run right home, stick them on your computer, and start seeing the day's work. There's a downside to that, at least in my experience. Which is looking at your images right away can make you a little hyper critical. And I think it's a combination of a couple of things. One, it's you remember really what the scene looked like when you were there, but more than that, it's if you're out and you feel like you've taken a couple of images that are going to be really good, your expectations are high, and so when you get home you can maybe be a little disappointed. When I can, and I do this a lot just when I'm shooting at home, I will actually not look at my images right when I get home. I'll just copy them over and leave them there and come back later. Other images, I'm eager to look at them right away. In…

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