Pre-visualization is almost a requirement to get truly good images consistently. Without it, you are basically shooting without a blueprint. Before buildings are built, an architect always prepares a blueprint. So should you.
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Pre-visualization
Ansel Adams is credited with coming up with the concept of pre-visualization. This is a method of taking pictures which involves the entire photographic process before you even pick up the camera.
Pre-visualization & Composition. Based on everything discussed thus far, you've probably come to the conclusion that positioning and focusing a camera for a macro photograph can be very time-consuming.
Pre-visualization is the real key in choosing great backgrounds for the subjects you shoot.
The five-day workshop is opened to just 12 photographers who want to focus intensely on advanced composition, pre-visualization, anticipation, planning for changing light and weather and shooting with post-processing tools in mind.
Back in the film days, photographers had to learn through trial and error how to see the world in tones of gray rather than colors-pre-visualization.
One of the great advantages of pre-visualization in the digital age is that along with pre-visualizing the image, we can also pre-visualize the image after using a software tool to modify an otherwise problematic image.
’ It was the creative thought (or as Ansel said, the pre-visualization) that lead and drove the process; it was not about the tool or technique.
 See also: Photograph, Subject, Image, Camera, Composition
  
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