You’re a new photographer and you just took a great photo of the best sunset you’ve ever seen.
You take the photo home and load it onto your computer.
You process the photo and you’re sure that by pumping up the saturation and blasting the contrast to level 11, you're making the photo look better.
No! Subtlety always looks better. When we intervene and speak over someone, overrule nature doing its work, or even adding our “boost” to our artwork and photos, we lose something.
Addition by subtraction is the way to go. We almost always tend to think that pumping things up makes them better because we put effort into it.
Nope. Effort does not equal better. Better equals better and sometimes stepping back and not adding your input makes the art, the speech, the work better.
Work on building confidence which allows you to actively try NOT to make things better and you’ll see how much better that makes everything.