Slow Photography #33: 5 Ideas for Clear Thinking Fast & Slow
Spring sunrise off the New Jersey coast. 1. THINK FIRST Check out that Mode dial on your camera. There may be a letter B on it. B means Bulb. It keeps your shutter open for as long as you hold down the shutter release, giving more time to expose the image. Allowing more time is the point. When we choose B on our mode dials, we can also mentally change our operating mode to Brain . B for a longer, more leisurely exposure, and B for Brain. Our brain has two main systems that fire up our visual areas to make better pictures. The one we often think of is left and right brain, but that division is an outdated, simplistic idea about our amazing visual processing system inside our Brain. Spring in a water fountain. 2. PHOTOGRAPH IN HEART MODE Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 book by Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economics Daniel Kahneman. In his book, Kahneman shows us two types of thinking we can use for our pho...