"My 9-year-old son does that with one hand."

"I can do that with my eyes closed"

"This is not art nor is it anything"

We have heard comments like these or we may even have said them on some occasions.

Sometimes we have the feeling that we are capable of doing any complex matter with ease. Well, researchers Justin Kruger and David Dunning found that there was a relationship in which the more ignorant a person is, the more they take for granted the supposed ease of any discipline. Or more simply:

The most ignorant is the one who thinks he is smarter.

Applied to photographic art, all or many of us have been through this. When we started, everything seemed achievable, our photographs were wonderful (or so they seemed to us) but as we learned the technique, the communication process, the composition, the visual culture ... we stopped liking our photos. We kept learning, getting to know the work of the great masters and it became increasingly difficult for us to get a good photograph, until all our photos seemed bad.

It is when you begin to see the difficulty of taking a good photograph, when you are beginning to overcome your Kruger-Dunning.

We are always learning; photographs that years ago we did not like, today they seem exquisite. The opposite also happens, photographs that we liked a lot, aren´t liked as much by us nom.

Learning, knowledge, experience make us evolve.

If you want to know more about these researchers and this interesting phenomenon, we suggest you read the results of these researchers (Kruger and Dunning) from Cornell University, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 1999.

Translation: Carlota D.H.