Thank you Firestarter for this post! I really enjoyed it. If there is one commonality I hear when listening to photographers who have excelled in any field of photography, is the message that "the camera should be an extension of yourself".


I remember wedding photographer Chris Mautner being asked "what settings you use" for his photos, and he replied something along the line of "if you can answer what settings you were using off of the top of your head, then you have not reached a point where you are truly capturing moments. When one can forget about exposure, aperture, focal length settings because it has all become instinctual, then you can truly submerge yourself in the moment and "create" photographs".