Nick Onken on Taking Better Photos
“The decision making muscle is the muscle that is exercised every time you push that button. This is the element of photography that assisting will never ever teach you because until you’re looking through that camera deciding wether the light is right, the composition is right, the model is in the right position, the wardrobe is spot on, the hair and make up are perfect, everything is lined up right, and everything else that you have to think about in creating a picture is to your liking, etc. You’ll never be actually logging those learned pieces of information into your brain. Making decisions of every element in your photograph is like exercising a muscle, and you learn more with every shot you take. That’s why it needs to be exercised, so that each time you shoot you are making better and better images.”
Photographer Nick Onken in his blog post titled: Exercising the Decision Making Muscle.
What I love most about this post by Nick is this: it applies to anyone with a camera.
And it is true – if you want to take better photos of [insert your favourite subject here], start by actively taking more photographs.
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