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HABIT THREE

SEE WHAT YOUR CAMERA SEES

© CHRIS WESTON

Have you ever returned from a photography session only to find that the image you made looks nothing in print like it appeared to you at the time? This is the type of conundrum I hear talked about often during the workshops I run and in e-mail questions I receive via my website. It is the perennial photographic problem and one that continues even after the technical aspects of photography have been mastered. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there is a simple solution.

The camera sees the world very differently from the way in which we see it. For example, we see in color, while cameras ...