Stop Chasing the Shot You Planned: A Lesson in Compositional Awareness from the Field

Stop Chasing the Shot You Planned: A Lesson in Compositional Awareness from the Field

There’s a version of every shoot that lives in your head before you ever leave the house. You’ve studied the location on Google Earth, checked the weather three times, set two alarms, and packed the right filters. I’ve been doing this for twenty years and I still show up to locations with a mental image so specific it might as well be a contract with the landscape. The problem is, the landscape never signed it.