Shooting digital takes some of the old anticipation away from the end results of your photographic efforts. It becomes to me a work flow instead of a revelation of purpose. There was always that anxiety (in a good way) of going to the lab and picking up your film and then laying it on the lightbox to see if you captured your inner landscape on the film. Now you pretty much know what you got. You can make composition adjustments, exposure corrections etc.. right there on the spot by looking at your monitor. The problem with this is that there is a break in the relationship your building with your subject. Looking at the monitor becomes the extension of your workflow instead of concentrating on your scene that is before you. If you look to often then you have missed the purpose I feel of making your unique images. Your images need to reflect your own style and you can't be observing your subject finding that angle, light and composition that expresses your subject if you constantly look at the monitor. I look at the monitor to see if I am in the ballpark and then concentrate on the subject reading the light and bracketing accordingly. Yes there are times when that draw to look at the monitor is very strong and I succumb to its power.
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