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Reasons for shooting images alone

Reasons for shooting images alone

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Reasons for shooting images alone

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- I was talking to a photographer friend one time about shooting. And he said what he likes about shooting is for the one 1/25th of a second he's in perfect control of the world. He likes looking through the viewfinder knowing that he's organized it exactly the way that he wants it. And he gets that for just a tiny fraction of a second. But, you know, you gotta get it somewhere. Apparently. We all shoot for different reasons. And we all take different things from shooting. It is a somewhat kind of altered state that you get into when you go out shooting. When you're really in a groove, you're focused on light and line, and organizing the world around you. And also managing the technical aspects of shooting. It is seemingly with automatic cameras and whatnot just this thing that we do. But it's a lot of work internally to have it all going well. And for that reason, I think most of the time it's really…

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