Have you ever made a photograph so good that even after you make your exposure, you hang around for a few more minutes just looking at the image on the view screen (or ground glass) because it’s so beautiful? A photograph so good you go ahead and make a few more exposures because you love the image that much. Then you go back and check the corners and edges to make sure everything is perfect. And make a few more exposures? And then you make a few more bracketed exposures just because you want to make sure that the exposure is dead solid perfect. A photograph so good you make up excuses not to leave the spot because you know there is absolutely no way the next photograph will be better than the one you just made?
Me neither.
Then you move on to the next photograph. And you don’t want to pick up the camera again because you know the next photograph will never, ever, ever be as good as the last one. So it becomes a real chore to make that next photograph. But, you go out and make that next photo anyway.
Then you get home and look at the files and wonder why you have so many exposures of the same really quite ordinary photograph.
Never happened to me either.
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