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The First Shot
I always seem to find that I never use the first image taken on a particular exercise or session. Why? I don't know really. It is almost as if I need to "warm up" and the first or even second clicks are just that. I guess in these days of digital storage it does not really matter and doesn't cost you anything (apart from a very slight degradation of that part of your storage card). In the case of wet film shooting, that's a frame or 2 gone never to be recovered. So does shooting digital make you lazy and less disciplined in what you capture? I don't think so. I think the freedom digital gives allows you to try more ideas. You are also not so limited in the number of images you take of a particular subject. Trying to get the picture you want of a bird or butterfly for example just right could result in 10 or more images, of which only 1 may avoid the "delete" button.
However, back to my opening point. Why not stop and assess more fully before raising the camera to eye? That way the first shot has a better chance of delivering what you want. Well there are many photographers (particularly landscape) who treat a photo shoot like a game of chess; that is not my way and I'll talk about that next time.
However, back to my opening point. Why not stop and assess more fully before raising the camera to eye? That way the first shot has a better chance of delivering what you want. Well there are many photographers (particularly landscape) who treat a photo shoot like a game of chess; that is not my way and I'll talk about that next time.
23/09/2012