To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't want preconceptions. I want to learn as much as possible.
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.
If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.