> http://www.alexandrebuisse.org/blog/Shutter-warm-up With 4x5 and larger, forcing yourself to set up for a shot, composing, focussing etc. can be helpful too, even if you don't make the exposures. It's as though going through the motions forces the creative circuits in the brain to get busy, and once they are active you begin to recognize all kinds of possibilities you didn't see before. If that is a plausible explanation, then the key is forcing yourself to make the kinds of aesthetic judgments and adjustments you need to create good images. So it might really be brain-warm-up or aesthetic-warm-up. Myron ============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.