"Beliefs" inherited from our "forefathers".

[NancyP]

Malcolm Gladwell and 10K hour rule : This presumes that the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, eyes, hands are all operational and in use during the great majority of the time.

I am a pathologist, my job involves "a good eye" (pattern recognition and visual memory), general medical knowledge, and reasoning/ "common sense". If you don't keep improving all three skill sets, you don't become expert.

[Tin Can]

Early onset old age from, it's a hard life.

Malcolm Gladwell and 10K hour rule : This presumes that the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, eyes, hands are all operational and in use during the great majority of the time.

I am a pathologist, my job involves "a good eye" (pattern recognition and visual memory), general medical knowledge, and reasoning/ "common sense". If you don't keep improving all three skill sets, you don't become expert.

[C. D. Keth]

You can't block up the shadows or blow the highlights.

[Jac@stafford.net]

You can't block up the shadows or blow the highlights.

Who said that?

[Kirk Gittings]

I don't know who said it but it was definitely a rule I received from on high somewhere for printing-except very tiny areas of the print as these areas of pure black or white would "key" the tonalities of the print.

[Tin Can]

Yep, I got taught the same rule, messed me up for a long time. Not my 'vision'...

I don't know who said it but it was definitely a rule I received from on high somewhere for printing-except very tiny areas of the print as these areas of pure black or white would "key" the tonalities of the print.

[Drew Wiley]

Several famous people taught that. That makes breaking the rule even more fun.

[Mark Sawyer]

Most of the aesthetic beliefs could be boiled down to "Your pictures should look like my pictures". Mortensen and Adams argued this for years...

[Vaughn]

"The light in the middle of the day is too flat and boring for good photographs."