Here's an excerpt from a book I read a while ago, but decided to glance through last night. This reiterates what my wonderful and very supportive husband keeps telling me, especially before I leave for a shoot, "Just shoot!"
"I compare relaxing your shutter finger to dancing. When you're really dancing-when you're really connected-you just do it. Neither partner wonders where they're going next. They just go there.
In photography, as in dancing, when you hesitate, you stumble. Spontaneous photographs require not just spontaneous events, but spontaneous photographers: photographers who don't think too much about when to push the shutter button. They just push it.
Thinking too much can get you into trouble. In the time it takes to think a thought, wonderful photographs com and go: the look of shock as a door slams; a baby's sneeze; the first blast of a sea breeze in a baby's face. Here and then gone. Don't think. Just push the button. Dance with your shutter finger (How to Photograph Your Baby by Nick Kelsh)."
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