>>4012019>>4012119 (ctd)>how to take your time and compose a shotSo, two strategies available.
A. Take your time and compose. Think really hard about the scene, take one photo.
B. Work the scene. Take a bunch of photos, try out different angles, compositions, settings, etc.
I would argue that not only is the "work the scene" strategy *better* but in fact it is a *superset* of the "take your time and compose" strategy.
It's not just "spraying and praying". What's happening is that you're looking through the viewfinder, considering the scene, taking the picture, checking to see how that shot turned out, and repeating, all in a tight loop. That time you spend looking through that viewfinder counts as "taking your time and composing a shot", you're just also taking photos throughout. Every time you snap the shutter, you're also thinking about what you can do to make it a little better.
Additionally, a huge part of photography is the act of curation. You go through in post and choose the best of the shots you took, which reinforces the lessons you learned while shooting.
All of that experience will inform your work the next time. You'll get to the good compositions more quickly and try different experiments, some of which might turn out great.
Google just about any famous photographer plus "contact sheet" and you'll discover that they just about all worked that way, even in the days of film. Just because you only see one famous shot doesn't mean there weren't 35 discards on the same roll that didn't make the cut.
