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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spb_stan" data-source="post: 673233" data-attributes="member: 43545">I doubt your friend who is the great photographer approaches as a process either. I don't but see the scene in my mind as finished and just know how to set things based on light, shadows and perspective. Even my studio portraits are no adjustments, when seeing the scene it is as natural as driving an unknown road, automatic based on the senses. Since cameras see so differently than we perceive light color and shadows, it does take some experience a to develop the habit of seeing the scene with eyes how the camera would see it. You were standing in front of the subject and saw very different detail than a camera/display media would see it. Our eyes have lower dynamic range than we normally encounter with deepest shadows and brightest light but we perceive a lot of information both in deep shadows and in bright areas became the eye is not like a camera, is  more like a camera with multiple exposures at different apertures and shutter speeds that the brain uses to composite into a wider DR perception.  Our brain creates the image from many scans, so we can see detail close up and far, but not at the same instant in the same way our eyes adjust dynamically to light level so over multiple sets of data from the retina with small pupil and large we create a composite of shadow detail with open iris and highlight capture with stopped down iris. Knowing that, with some experience, we naturally "see" or imagine who the camera would have seen it and just know what settings will result in what you expected to see.The same with many crafts that are taught by rote but becomes second nature only with experience. Beginning drivers are happy just to get down the road without an accident but with enough experience it is a nonthinking activity of managing the car as an extension of one's self.</blockquote>

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