Dave_D
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Yes I really think so. Other then a pro in a studio or on location shooting for a client, anyone who uses a camera to capture a moment visualizes to a certain degree. The soccer mom talking pictures of her kid, the tourist at a zoo, Ansel Adams, Quang-Tuan Luong. They all saw something which compelled them to point a camera at something.ThomThomsk said:Do you really think so? I'm not at all sure about that. As Torus34 says, it is very difficult to do, and although I had been taking photographs for a long time, I hadn't even heard of it until last year.
Well of course, but visualisation is about knowing how you want your final print to look, seeing it in your mind's eye and taking steps to ensure that is what you get.
Seeing an inspiring scene and pointing your camera at it may give you what you want, and that's fine. But visualisation is about controlling the limitations of your equipment and materials and making decisions so that your print matches what you saw in your head before you released the shutter. How many people really do that?
Torus34 said:David D:
Sure, everyone 'visualizes' before they trip the shutter. But what you are doing is trivializing the process.
I think not. On the contray, the way this discussion has gone has over complicated the process. Let's keep this simple for a moment: The difference between the soccer moms and people who "visualize" is knowledge and technique. The basic concept is still the same. I know this because I too have been there and back. I learned the technical aspects of this concept studying under Alan Ross. I know all about the zone system of pre-visualization and post processing. I try not to get too hung up on the particulars and do what comes natural. For more reference on the philosophical discussion here is a whole forum dedicated to those who opine and ponder that colormesilly and others might enjoy. My particular philosophy of photography is continually evolving.
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