Look­ing the wrong way? I don’t think so…

Some­times nowa­days we can get too caught up in the details, the minu­tiae of con­trols and set­tings. Did we set ISO cor­rectly? What about white bal­ance? Am I in the right posi­tion? What about over there? Is the fore­ground clut­tered? Rule of Thirds?

Some­times our favorite images are cap­tured, not through tech­ni­cal excel­lence and pre­cise adjust­ments of the cam­era con­trols, but by stand­ing back and look­ing around.

Some­times our best images are cap­tured, not by focus­ing on what every­one else is look­ing at, but by look­ing the wrong way…

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