I like what Harvey Stanbrough says about it: You need as much description as the character tells you he/she needs. A cop character is going to give different descriptions than a farmer character. Someone with a scientific background is going to describe things differently from a beautician.
You need the descriptions that the character would notice, as we (the reader) are riding on their shoulders, like a newsy camera from the future or a First Person Shooter. We see what we are pointed at.
My favorite writers all share the quality of putting you "there", and I have tried to live up to that example in my own work.
That is all we can do!
I like what Harvey Stanbrough says about it: You need as much description as the character tells you he/she needs. A cop character is going to give different descriptions than a farmer character. Someone with a scientific background is going to describe things differently from a beautician.
You need the descriptions that the character would notice, as we (the reader) are riding on their shoulders, like a newsy camera from the future or a First Person Shooter. We see what we are pointed at.