Is there a benefit to limitations? What if they are artificial?
I am thinking specifically about photography in this instance.
A little over a month ago, I posted 4 pictures of our daughters. The day we did those pictures, I took 660. Six hundred and sixty pictures.
There are almost no limitations, practically speaking. I can just keep clicking and hope to accidentally stumble into something good.
Getting a four-year-old and an infant to do what you want for a picture is difficult. But I began thinking about landscape photography, and how limitations, even if artificial, could lead to better photographs. If I can take hundreds of photos, I can keep messing with settings until I like what I see.
But does that make for good photography?
Or is it just throwing enough against the wall that something has to stick by sheer luck?
I want to try limiting myself, to force myself to know my camera better, to work on composition and settings before just clicking away.
It's definitely arbitrary, but I think something like a limit of 25 pictures for a session. No deleting. No "just checking the lighting" shots. 25 pictures to figure it out.
I'd imagine the first few sessions like that might have poor results, but the hope is that it will force me to improve. I think I'll give it a try