From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Not everyone sees things the way you do

Not everyone sees things the way you do

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Not everyone sees things the way you do

- There are a lot of peculiar things about the human visual system, particularly as compared to the cameras that you shoot stills or video with. The human visual system has an amazing ability to represent white under any kind of light. It has an incredible dynamic range. The range of light to dark that it can see. There are some aspects of it that are a little bit tricky, though. Tricky to recognize. You think, as you're moving through the world, looking at things and seeing things, that your visual sense is objective, that you are seeing what's there, and that's it, that's all there is to it. But that's really not true. Most of your visual sense is actually made up by your brain. You see what you expect to see. Your brain projects expectation onto the world and that's what you notice. And what that means for a photographer is twofold. One, it means that you may not recognize shots that are out there because you simply don't see them. Or the shots that you do see, you think everybody…

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