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6. The Second Ritual:
Emotion & Composition
Learning to Focus on Emotion.
An image that is technically perfect can be cold and emotionless. The idea is to bring emotion and technique together.
How we see the world is a function of many things, in- Step One: Observe.
cluding the language we speak, and what we have been
told about the world. In fact, we see what we have been It sounds easy, but it isn’t. Observation isn’t just about
told we will see and we find what we have been told we looking at the world. It also involves letting go of ev-
will find. erything you have been told about the world. It is about
If we look at the world the way everyone else does, then letting go of expectatons as well. Heidegger, a philos-
our images will look just like everyone elses. opher, talked about letting the world disclose itself to
us. Being open to the world’s disclosure of itself to us is
How do we get past this? How do we see the world the essence of observation. This is where you set your
again, for the first time? camera.
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