Imperfections
When we post a shot, we want it to be the best possible, don't we? We carefully choose the right framing, the perfect light, the most balanced composition. We discard without hesitation anything that doesn't measure up, anything that doesn't work, anything that doesn't look good enough. I do it too, all the time.
Yet there is a path behind every successful shot. There are times when I spend a lot of time trying to find the right setup, there are attempts that don't go as I hoped, mistakes that make me grow. But in the end, the end result is what really matters. The rest ends up forgotten, as if the perfect photo was born just like that, the first time.
Today, however, I want to share a different approach.I want to show a photo that, at first glance, might seem wrong. One that I would normally never show. Not because it has something special, but precisely because it doesn't.It's an obvious mistake, one of those that you usually delete without thinking too much about it.
But these shots are also part of the process. Without them, there wouldn't be the right ones, the well-executed ones. And maybe it's worth reminding ourselves of that from time to time.
“We don’t learn from our good images; we learn from the ones that can be improved on.” (Jen Rozenbaum)
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