Are we trying too hard?

This is a snippit from a "how to draw" web site and it got me thinking about photography and work-flow on the job.

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"The parking principle"
Try slowly and carefully reversing a car into a tight parking space and you will often fail. Try it at speed (just slightly faster than your thinking process can function) and you will usually achieve success first time. I learnt this trick in my taxi driving days - it requires practice leading to confidence and, if you try it, don't send me your repair bills!

In both principles, failure arises from letting your conscious mind dictate your actions and success comes from allowing your natural intuition to rule. In other words, you're trying too hard - just let it flow. The beauty of working in graphite is that you have a near-perfect mind-to-hand-to-image contact. Don't let your conscious mind interfere — you think, you draw, it becomes reality - in one unbroken and continuous process.
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So now ask the question, am I trying too hard to take the photo and not letting my subconscious guide my eye?


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Ditto what Susie said.

In the immortal words of Nike; Just Do It!

There's always something to complain about in a photograph or painting, what it boils down to is this;

As an artist, do you like it.? What one may not like, another will like it.

Same goes to matting it and framing it, it's all a matter of preference.

If the customer likes it, so be it.

I never think my shots through, I see it first and then capture it. Sometimes the shot may be missed because it was one of those shots that was a once in a moment.
Knowing your aps and shutter combos is a must to get "That" shot which is the one and only in a moment which cannot be repeated.

Those who shoot events and weddings and the like know what I mean. 

I had a soon to be retired photojournalist share his mantra with me a couple weeks ago. "f/8 and be there"
For his work it was a good guide.

I have to agree with Bob. I just did a final, end of year tally, and this year I sold 198 prints, most of which were panned on the various photo boards I am on. Almost all of my work is shot in the moment, without pre-planning or setting up a scene ahead of time. But it seems the public likes it.

I would love, however, to keep increasing my skills, get better with choosing my f/stops.

Maybe the fact that I draw mainly in pen and ink, without sketching anything out first, has trained me to compose in my head. My old instructer once said, "you can teach someone to draw, but you can't teach them to 'see'."