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# Constraints are Inevitable
- URL: https://www.cjchilvers.com/blog/constraints-are-inevitable/
- Published: 2013-03-14T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2013-03-14T05:00:00.000Z
- Author: CJ Chilvers
- Tags: photography, constraints, creativity

[Brooks Jensen](http://daily.lenswork.com/2013/03/the-death-of-the-straight-line.html?ref=cjchilvers.com) brings up a good point about the increasing choices in photographic technology and what it means for the future:

> “I see nothing on the horizon that would indicate we will have fewer choices five years from now than we have today. I’m not bemoaning this, but I am pragmatic in the realization that the implication is that our futures are all filled with a plethora of unavoidable learning curves. The only other option would be to restrict our options — a path that looks seductively more and more intelligent as the technologies multiply in ways at which even rabbits would be amazed.”

I’ve always advocated self-imposed constraints as a method of increasing creativity, but I’ve never really considered it may naturally occur as we became more and more overwhelmed by new choices.