From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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- This week on The Practicing Photographer, I'm not going to tell you anything that's new and exciting. Sorry, instead I'm going to remind you of something that you probably already know, but that you may have forgotten about because in this age of Instagram and social media and whatnot, we have a very different way of interacting and relating to the photos we take than what we used to have. It used to be in the film days, you always made prints of your photos. And you usually made them at a somewhat small size, and you threw them in a box, and that box got more and more full, and you could argue that, well, it was a lesser time because people never saw those photos. And that's true, that you didn't get the exposure that you can with social media. But at some point, usually around a family gathering or whatnot, you'd dump all those photos out and you'd sift through them, and you'd find these wonderful discoveries that you'd forgotten about, and maybe you'd pull some of 'em out and…

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