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Understanding Ritual
Learning how NOT to think
What is a Ritual? best. Having a ri-
tual for interacting
In short, a ritual is a learned pattern of behavior with the camera
that becomes instinctive through repetition. can stop that from
happening. Fine Cuisine
Think about how you interact with your camera. v Camera settings are
If you aren’t working with your camera set to au- obtuse and often counter intuitive. Ritual can
tomatic or program mode, how long does it take make deciding what to do effortless.
you to change your set shutter speed, aperture
and ISO - or, are you overwhelmed but all the v More importantly, ritual can allow us to stay
possible settings? Or, do you find yourself won- focused on the moment so that once-in-a-life-ti-
dering, “What do I do now?” me moment is captured in a way that produces a
Either way, thinking about the camera is getting photo that evokes all the emotion of the moment
long after that moment has passed.
in the way of your photography....
A good snap-shot is an accident. A good photo,
That is never a good thing. isn’t. We want to make our photos as sponta-
neous as a snap-shot, but as technically sound as
Why is ritual important to photography? a photo should be.
v For most of us, thinking about the camera takes And that’s the point.
us away from the moment - it is a distraction at
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