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Acquiring Better Focus

You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

– Mark Twain

In this chapter you will:

  • learn to look at life in a variety of different ways
  • better choose the things in life on which to focus
  • become comfortable with regularly changing your focus

You might not realize it in a well-made movie, but much of the drama and moodiness of the film is created with clever use of focusing. This is the means by which light rays a specific distance from the camera are brought together to land on the film in such a way that the image at that location is formed sharply, while anything in front or behind it is thrown out of focus.

This is the same principle on which your eye works, as demonstrated with the ...

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