Taking a Nice photograph is pretty easy with the modern tools we have today; Smartphones are equipped with pretty decent cameras lately. However taking a Fantastic one, or merely a Great one is not so easy as I figured by trying to capture a beautiful 'infinity' fountain in Dubai.

Sorting my photographs, I remembered I was trying to get at least a great shot, therefor I took shots at slightly different angles. Apparently three. But you know what? None made the great level.

My first realisation when at first - in slomo browsing mode - I saw the three photographs, I felt a different emotion viewing and seeing each one of them. Quite strong emotions I must add.

• Surprised in a kinda positive way: I felt I jumped backwards
• Lightly Scared: A dark something was just in front of me
• Disappointed: None of the three are great photographs

Interesting! Isn't it?

Three seemingly very similar pictures can have such different impact on us.

Check it yourselves...

What did You Feel?

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I got even more disappointed when further examining the photographs to understand why the different emotions, I noticed so many elements that are not right. I'm not nearly close to a kinda ok amateur photographer.

The good side of this though: I can only do better :)

• Wrong Background: Hard to do something about that though without post-processing; Something I'm not so good at anyway
• Optimal Angle: Must be one but I didn't capture it
• Balance: Difficult to find; Photo C is not totally bad but still too much dark
• Details: Matters a lot; eg Reflection in photo A should be in photo C

I know for sure, next time I'm gonna schedule at least an hour - instead of the 10 or 20 seconds I used to shoot these three stills - to try and take a perfect photograph. Will need laptop as well, and some dark-ish place to watch the still images on a larger screen. A small screen on modern smartphones can be so deceiving!

CARPE DIEM