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Rewind: What makes a good photograph?

Rewind: What makes a good photograph?

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Rewind: What makes a good photograph?

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- Hi, I'm Ben Long. This week on The Practicing Photographer, we're taking an encore performance of one of my favorite episodes. I just love this one. Someone who is very good at what they do makes it look easy and that's true with photography also. There'll be times when I'll look at a photo and it's just so well executed, I'll think, "Oh boy, you know, I could've taken that shot," or "Why didn't I see that? or "Why don't I see things like that? or "It just looks easy." But if you spend any time out with your camera, you know that taking a good photo is not easy. And today here on The Practicing Photographer, I would like to remind you of something that you may have already learned, or maybe not, and that is that you don't necessarily know that a photo is good when you shoot it. I am often amazed that I will get back home and the keeper image, the one that I really like from the day's shoot, is one that I never…

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