From the course: The Practicing Photographer

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Looking vs. seeing

Looking vs. seeing

- Here at the practicing photographer, we've talked before about the role of expectation in the process of human vision and I've got an example of that for you here today that I think is pretty interesting. Some of you may know that I am the author of a book called Complete Digital Photography. I have been working for the last few months on a new edition. Here's a proof of the all new 9th Edition which will be out soon very excited about it and we're giving away a free chapter of it you can go to completedigitalphotography.com and download a free PDF of chapter nine, Finding and Composing a Photo. Now that chapter has been in there for a few editions and it's kind of the meat of the created part of the book and one of the things that I talk about in that section at the very beginning, is how you get through the day because you have an abbreviated sense of the world. if you had to actually see every detail of everything, you wouldn't be able to get anything done. Unfortunately as a…

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