From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics
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Why do you take pictures?
From the course: The Traveling Photographer: The Basics
Why do you take pictures?
Why do you take pictures? And I gotta be completely honest with you. I can just like see, a lot of people who are looking at the little list of contents. Just looking at that one and going, nope, and just going right past it. Because it doesn't sound like something you want to listen to. But I'll tell you right now this is huge. This is foundation stuff, and this is something that will pay you dividends in every single photographic decision that you make. And frankly it, it transports outside of photography too. But for our purposes, we're going to talk about it with photography. So this is, this is a big thing and, many photographers, most photographers, just don't do it. But, I'll tell you who does it. People who are really, really good photographers. There is a correlation, I think, between the amount of thoughtfulness that goes in the process of making pictures. Why am I making this picture? What do I want to, to evoke with it? There's a decision tree that merits inspection, and…
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