Shooting wide open HURTS your photography. Do THIS instead.

While there are many benefits to shooting wide open, this video will cover four main ways it can actually hurt your photos. We will cover how wide open apertures remove important context from your shot and how it can make you disregard composition when everything in your photo is based on blur. In the video, I encourage you to slightly stop down the aperture to bring your photography to the next level. My GEAR feel free to use my affiliate links to support the channel Fujifilm X-T5: Camera: Fujifilm X-T5: https://amzn.to/3Y4i3s2 Fujifilm X-T30: https://amzn.to/3Y6kCd9 Lenses: XF 18mm f/1.4 R LM WR https://amzn.to/4f3n6Q7 Viltrox 27mm f/1.2 PRO: Fujifilm: https://amzn.to/4f2jgHc Sony: https://amzn.to/3Ux0os7 Nikon: https://amzn.to/3Y6kdYb XF 56mm f/1.2 R WR: https://amzn.to/3NqEVgd Viltrox 75mm f/1.2 PRO Fujifilm: https://amzn.to/3BHD5Fg Sony: https://amzn.to/3YoKTVe Nikon: https://amzn.to/406I8cq Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 01:18 - Context 02:21 - Composition 03:58 - Autofocus 05:40 - Optics 06:25 - How it changed my photography 07:37 - Conclusion Sources Alex Webb: https://www.streetshootr.com/video-al... Saul Leiter: https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/saul... Is this your first time here? Hello there, I’m Pit, street and commercial photographer based in Vienna! Welcome to my (new) channel! My website: www.pitsphotoblog.com Social Follow/Contact me Instagram:   / pits_photoblog   Threads: https://www.threads.net/@pits_photobl...