{"id":717,"date":"2011-06-26T13:11:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/?p=717"},"modified":"2019-05-31T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:34:01","slug":"the-counter-intuitive-aspects-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautiful-landscape.com\/Reflections\/the-counter-intuitive-aspects-of-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The Counter-Intuitive Aspects of Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Counter-Intuitive Aspects of Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leave others to determine whether he is working or playing.<br \/>\nTo himself he always appears to be doing both.<br \/>\n<\/em> Chateaubriand<\/p>\n<p>Many aspects of photography are counter-intuitive. \u00a0Below I listed some of the most important ones.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We see with two eyes but photograph with only one<\/li>\n<li>Bad weather equals good photographs<\/li>\n<li>The light is more important than the subject<\/li>\n<li>Smaller apertures give greater depth of field<\/li>\n<li>We start to photograph sunrise before sunrise &amp; finish photographing sunset after sunset<\/li>\n<li>Shade is more colorful than direct light (except at sunrise and sunset)<\/li>\n<li>Good exposures needs post processing to look good<\/li>\n<li>Photography is technical but vision is more important than technique<\/li>\n<li>We are attracted by the background but spend most of our time finding a foreground<\/li>\n<li>Saturated colors look best desaturated<\/li>\n<li>Technology changes constantly, but fundamental rules of photography remain the same<\/li>\n<li>Better cameras do not take better photographs<\/li>\n<li>We focus on gear to the level of obsession but it is the image that people admire and remember<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alain Briot<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beautiful-landscape.com \">http:\/\/www.beautiful-landscape.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subscribe to Reflections<br \/>\nby entering your email address now:<\/p>\n<form style=\"text-align: center;\" action=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify\" method=\"post\"><input name=\"email\" type=\"text\" \/> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/><\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Counter-Intuitive Aspects of Photography A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. 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