From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Confidence booster: Shift perspective

Confidence booster: Shift perspective

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Confidence booster: Shift perspective

- [Ben] A while ago, I went to Morocco with my friend Joanna to work on a project. She was shooting video, I was shooting stills. One day, after a few hours of shooting in the Sahara, we had a conversation about how things had gone. - What'd you think? - We could never spend enough time here. (Joanna laughing) The light's frustrating, we missed the really good contrast. I think I got some stuff that I like. It's easy maybe to get hung up on potential, well, this could've been that, and it could've been that other, and so then you think you've failed. - [Joanna] I feel that way about every single video shot, like oh, how come I wasn't a little tighter on your feet, or if the sand just fell right in frame instead of right out of frame, and it's so easy to see what you haven't got. I'm kind of excited to see what we have got, although I have to say I'm a little nervous, too. - And of course, the viewer doesn't know the things that you haven't caught. They only know what you have got, so…

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