Re: KILL-FILE Re: Why can't some people compose a picture through

Don Stauffer in Minnesota wrote:
> Gary Edstrom wrote:
>>
>> What is so hard about looking through a viewfinder?  It seems so
trivial
>> to me.
> 
> One reason is that we often see what we EXPECT to see.  This is a
> characteristic of human vision.  The brain does not receive a
> "photographic" like rendition of the external scene.  There is a
> fantastic amount of data compression in the human visual system.  If
> we think we are looking at a familiar object, we will see the
> "object", not the pixels that make up the object.  This is the origin
> of so many optical illusions.
> 
> One result is that we do not see what we do not expect to see when we
> look through the viewfinder. I myself have shot oh so many bad shots
> because my brain ignored distracting objects that obviously must have
> been in the viewfinder, but they were not what my brain was expecting,
> so it tuned them out. Composing through a camera viewfinder is a
> learned art.

I wonder if some people naturally see things correctly in the 
viewfinder. I'm not one of those people, it has taken me training.

-- 
Paul Furman
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