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Scene Stuffing: The Long Lens Composition Trap That Almost Broke My Telephoto Work
There is a specific kind of frustration that comes from standing in front of a genuinely beautiful scene, making what feels like a thoughtful composition with a long lens, and then pulling up the image on your laptop that night and feeling nothing. The light was there. The subject was there. And somehow the photograph is a mess. For years I chalked that up to some vague failure of artistic instinct.