What prompts you to take that picture?
Is it a systematic way of expressing your worldview to others?
Is it the sense of awe, that you have to do your best to try and capture it?
Is it a study of how variations of lighting, form, shadows, context all interplay and affect each other and the overall result... how a 3d scene is best conveyed via a 2d medium?
Is it because it will sell?
Is it a manifestation of your communication of self, better conveyed than words, screaming in wild abandon, this is me!
How much of your 'success' with your photography is based on these factors: emotion, experience, intuition, and study?
I find that sometimes something will call out to me on some level, prompting me to take the picture. Sometimes, it does not turn out good, and can look like a huge chaotic muddle on paper/screen and yet, it holds ... something. And I wonder what that something is.
For me, study and experience will provide me the means to make that rational image everyone will like, yet it is too methodological a process by itself. Intuition and emotion are needed to deviate from the standard, yet how much deviation is acceptable?
(Of course, I may have missed some points.)
Whatever you say, it's cool.
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