Invert, always, invert
This is how I summarize my time in photography classes.<p>- What’s in focus? (What’s out of focus?)<p>- What’s in light? (What’s in shadow?)<p>- Where is the light coming from? (Where is the light <i>not</i> coming from?)<p>- What’s in the foreground? (What’s in the background?)<p>- Positive space / negative space<p>Similar things end up happening in audio. You want to set up a microphone to record something, it’s usually better to point the microphone <i>away</i> from the noise that you don’t want, instead of <i>towards</i> the sound that you do want. When you’re EQing, you usually want to remove unwanted frequencies rather than boost wanted frequencies. Etc.