Got hung up on technicalities

thebigsky

I'm not sure if I'd go as far as to say it's an epiphany, but I'm certainly sensing that I'm about to take off in a different direction with regards to my photography.

I feel over the last 12 months I've stiffled my creativity by worrying too much about the technical aspects of my exposures, whilst it's good to have a strong technical base I've realised I need to stop worrying about the rules.

It's the final image that counts and the emotion it conveys, not the white point, black point, shape of the histogram and perfect white balance etc.

Anyway others may disagree (or be uninterested in my rant :wink ) but I do feel like a weight has been lifted and I intend to focus towards trying to catch some emotion rather than perfect exposures.

Charlie

Pupator

I can understand exactly what you're saying.

I've read (on this board or somewhere else in the past) a pro who said that learning the rules and proper techniques is essential, but you need to learn them so well that they become second nature to you and they don't interfere with creativity and spontaneity. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

I'd add to that by saying also that we should learn the rules well so that we know when to break them.

thebigsky

Pupator wrote:

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I'd add to that by saying also that we should learn the rules well so that we know when to break them.

Yes, that makes a lot of sense.

Charlie

claudermilk

Pupator wrote:

I can understand exactly what you're saying.

I've read (on this board or somewhere else in the past) a pro who said that learning the rules and proper techniques is essential, but you need to learn them so well that they become second nature to you and they don't interfere with creativity and spontaneity. <o:p></o:p>

I'd add to that by saying also that we should learn the rules well so that we know when to break them.

Exactly! <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/15524779-Ti.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" > I couldn't have said it better myself.

Once you have the technical part of the process down--a necessity--then it's like a veil is lifted. You start worrying about the image itself instead of how to set the gear to capture it.