>>3640533A sense of investment in each shot. When I was shooting mainly digital, it was easy enough to just pray and spray. I'd take 50+ shots and have maybe 4 or 5 keepers. Shooting 35mm and later 6x7 has taught me to focus on framing, subject, and exposure. It's a cold day in hell when I take more than one photo of any given subject. Also, you can't exactly fix an incorrect exposure with ~6 stops of tonal range.
>Be me, hiking at a state park with a friend who is brand new to photography>He has been shooting with an a6400 in shaded woods all day in shutter priority set at 1/4000s @ ISO 100 >Still get usable, if not totally flat, images of branches, trails, and birds after poking around in lightroom for 10 minsThe point of the story being that without the mental restriction of "I'm spending money on each shot", there's little impetus to learn anything about either your gear, proper exposure, or choosing interesting subjects and framing them properly.
