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Your Eye Is Just Like Camera Lens BUT . . .
10/16/2007 11:35pm
The human eye, controlled by the human brain, sees what it wants to see, not what is there. Whentaking a photo, how many times have you taken a beautiful sunset only to have telephone lines show-up, layered across the screen like bunting, spoiling the shot? You eye is just like camera lens BUT unlike a camera lens it is connected to your brain. Therein lies the problem. Your brain will focus on the most interesting thing and not all the other stuff sprinkled around the viewfinder like poles, wires, trees sprouting out of heads and other composition destroying paraphernalia.
The cure and what separates the casual snapper and the more experienced shooter is forcing, by habit, your eye to consider all elements present in the viewfinder. It's easy to do and a very good habit to develop. What to do:
1. Locate and compose your central element (in this case the church window, which I used a golden mean relationship combined with a large, medium, small).
2. Then, starting at the upper right corner sweep your eye from corner to corner to corner, ending up where you started at the upper right.
"Sweep" the viewfinder with your eye for better photos
Using this tecnique will force you to see all of what will be in your photo, not just the one interesting element that your brain wants to focus on.
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