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Do ruts exist?

Do ruts exist?

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Do ruts exist?

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- There are, of course, phrases that people identify with photographers. Smile, say cheese, buying this new lens is going to make me a much better photographer. But I think one of the most common phrases that you'll hear a photographer utter is, "I'm in a rut." Whether you've ever said this out loud or not, I expect that you've felt it, that feeling that you keep shooting the same image over and over. Sometimes the rut feeling comes because you were shooting the same subject matter over and over. But just as often, it comes because you find yourself repeating the same compositional ideas over and over or recognizing the same types of light or geometry over and over. In a previous episode of The Practicing Photographer, I suggested the idea that getting into a rut is a good thing because that concept that you are shooting over and over is the photographic equivalent of a musical lick or riff. And if you can…

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