When the Relationship is Not Obvious

Sometimes it's hard to get a handle on the background tone of a shoot. This difficulty is often felt when there is absolutely no innate feeling for the subject and no form of identification beyond humanness. Often this happens to novice shooters more than the veteran shooters who have reduced their practice to a formula. It's the veterans who  have learned to remove the energy drain of building a relationship with the subjects or the context in pursuit of efficiency during the shoot. Who has the internal strength to bring the relationship imperative to every image capture. How does a shooter grasp the tone of their shoot and muster the energy to manipulate that tone? I believe it's this type of shooter that can engage the spirit of their subject and the elements of the shooting context to get the most out of their intuitive vision and the energy present in the subject.