It takes time to see what you want to shoot. I point my camera lens and think that I have what I need in the view finder only to find out later that it was crap.
What I “see” is not what I get because my eyes are not the only thing doing the work. I have to learn how to use my camera, my lens and what everything does that I am not aware of.
My naked eye sees certain things a certain way and when I take the shot home and load it on my computer it is nothing that I thought I saw.
I am not suggesting by any means that my camera is taking pictures other than what I am shooting. No, that would be insane. Truly insane and not truthful.
What I am suggesting is that what the camera translates from what I am seeing is different and I have to start learning to look at things differently.
When I am looking at architecture and I want just that piece of roofing with the corner ONLY, that is not what I get of course. I get the sky, the branch in the way and some debris from some wiring left to rot up there.
I have to learn to weed through the crap, the debris, the rot (sometimes I want that rot) and learn to shoot through chicken wire fences that look like hell and through safety wiring and walls that are there to protect the view, from me.
I am glad that Yoga has been a part of my life so that I could use those moves to be a contortionist and shoot what I want without impediments.
Interestingly I also found out that what I am seeing is less than what my faithful camera will take. It takes more so that just in case I am a moron and missed a piece of something, it takes it for me. Technology with all its wonders has decided for me that I am not sure what I want to capture so here is an extra piece that you do not need, and you can crop it at home.
This may seem like a no brainer and more is better but the truth is the more I crop, the less image I have and the less pixels I get for sharpness.
I need a new camera.