When a human has partial visual information about an object (including living “objects”) or scene, their imagination tends to fill in the missing information. Sometimes their imagination fills out the picture in a positive way (e.g. toward something they yearn for), and sometimes in a negative way (e.g., toward something they loath or fear). Being aware of this and “testing” a scene with one’s own imagination (to see if it’s particularly apt for imagination embellishment) is a big part of being a photographer, I believe.

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