What 3 things do you worry about most in photography?

The First thing i worr about most in photography is Noise: Shoot at high ISO if you need to. If you’ve got noise in your shot, use the noise reduction slider in Lightroom. When famed wildlife photographer Moose Peterson was asked how he eliminates noise, his response was that he always just slides the Lightroom noise reduction slider over to about 30. I don’t understand why some people spend so much time selectively trying to get rid of noise in Photoshop or third-party software. I’d rather be like Moose Peterson. Or as Rick Sammon says. “If a shot is so boring that you notice the noise, it’s a boring shot.”

And the second one that i worry about photography is chasing the perfect exposure: You’ve heard of pixel peepers. Well I’ve noticed a new group lately that I’m calling exposure peepers. How close do you need to get to the “correct” exposure to get a great image? Photographers tell me that Live view can never give an accurate exposure reading. I bet they’re right. But how far off can it be? Maybe a third of a stop? Maybe two-thirds of a stop? With today’s cameras if you’re off by even a stop or two you can fix a RAW image in post. And if you’re bracketing your exposures why is this even something we’re spending brain power on?

Lastly is the mage quality at 100% zoom: I’d rather step back away from my monitor and blur my eyes than to zoom in on my shot to determine if I need to make any changes. Too often, photographers zoom in to small details in their image to make changes to sharpness or noise. It’s more important to stand back, figure out what the image looks like at first glance, and make changes based on that. Where is your eye drawn? Does the image have immediate impact?