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Balancing the technical and the aesthetics

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Balancing the technical and the aesthetics

- I mean, the metadata is important. It doesn't rule me, in the sense that my histograms, my metadata, all that sort of stuff has good information. It filters into the background of my head, but I'm looking for a picture. Making a living with a camera introduces a certain level of practicality, where you don't really care about the purity of it. We've created a series of pictures here, which I think most photo editors, and I say this with a fair degree of certainty, would be very pleased to get. You know, given like a local magazine or something like that, I think they'd be very pleased with this kind of a picture. The best quote I have ever heard about a camera came from Donald McCullin, who was a legendary war photographer, Magnum photographer, who said years ago, he said, "I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. "It gets the job done." So I think a modicum of that sensibility can control a lot of the rampant sort of, you know, concerns about the technology. It's there, use it,…

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