No reframing, no puddling around, etc. Reminds me of my wife and how she shoots. Instinctive, no fooling around, first shots usually a keeper. She's much better than I am at most types of photography, I am better than her at stuff that requires patience. She's _much_ quicker, a by-product of her 5 years as a photojournalist on a small midwestern paper, I assume.
I'm not sure the guy approach of "understanding" technical details helps. Notice how much bandwidth Caveman and Pal have wasted over _accurate_ exposure recently?
I read this book recently titled, I think, "Faces", by a woman photographer for a London newspaper. She ran around for about 35 years with a meterless OM camera, B&W film, and a 200 watt tungsten light bulb (she sometimes assaulted a lamp with it if she needed a bit more light). Her typical shot was with a 100mm f2.8 lens, wide open.
Her stuff is, of course, very good. She mentioned she noticed that either the first or last frame on a roll was often the keeper.
Sounds like you are a first frame sort of person.
