How does one stay focused when the event happens? Does one shoot or not? I was pretty focused at Burningman this year but when I was at the Billion Bunny March I didn't shoot the ear attachment. Someone asked me if I shot it I thought I did and I witnessed it but everything happens so fast in secs, apparently I didn't , no I didn't misplace the images because the fram numbers are in sequence.
How does one be kind of objective and shoot when one should be?
I think I need to improve on that how to be able to recognize changing situations and adjust accordingly.
How does one be kind of objective and shoot when one should be?
I think I need to improve on that how to be able to recognize changing situations and adjust accordingly.
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Re: Staying Alert or Being objective when shooting.
Mon, October 2, 2006 - 8:34 PMHi Abject,
I may not be the best person to ask this, because I'm truly a "Zen" photographer when it comes to events. I'll have a few things that I know I have to get, but for the most part, I just let myself go and follow my lens around. An answer to your question would be to make a list and follow it, but for me, it takes me out of the moment, it takes my eye off of the action. I just follow my instincts. And if there's a bunch of other photographers there, then I really follow my instincts. It helps me get the unexpected, the angles that no one else gets. My only rule is this: If you're there to photograph and want to get really good coverage, then do nothing else. Make that your primary goal. Trying to hang out with friends and really shoot is impossible. -
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Re: Staying Alert or Being objective when shooting.
Mon, October 2, 2006 - 9:43 PMThanks Jay for taking the time to write..
I like to clarify, I was making an effort to shoot. What I thought the unexpected, was in my mind not that interesting, in this case the rabbit ear being attached to the Man.
I was letting myself go, in fact I became an observer..instead of a shooter...In other words i was distracted and not in my zen moment or zone of focused..since I'm ADD, I would say hyperfocused.. and missed the shot.
It didn't matter wheter there was other photographers there. I was caught up in the moment, how would I stay objective next time and shoot?
I do have list, but the ears was not on the list and it was unexpected that s what I'm saying. -
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Re: Staying Alert or Being objective when shooting.
Wed, October 4, 2006 - 10:23 PMSound like you got in your head a bit and chose what would be interesting and forgot to just shoot - get a great compositon. A week later, outside the experience, it would be time to see if it is interesting or not. I can't tell you how many times I've been to where the trinket for sale looked so common, but when I got back to the states and tried to explain to someone what I saw I wished I had that village made whatever.
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Re: Staying Alert or Being objective when shooting.
Thu, October 5, 2006 - 11:42 PMDanimal
Thanks, yes hindsight is 20/20...
Should had, would have could have... -
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Re: Staying Alert or Being objective when shooting.
Fri, October 6, 2006 - 12:02 AMmissed opportunity...didn't do the decisive moment...
quoting wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartier_bresson
The Decisive Moment
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment / Images à la sauvette. Published in 1952. The book contains the term, The Decisive Moment, that is now synonymous with Henri. There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment / Images à la sauvette. Published in 1952. The book contains the term, The Decisive Moment, that is now synonymous with Henri. There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.
Henri achieved journalistic international recognition for his coverage of Gandhi's funeral in India in 1948 and the Maoist revolution in China in 1949. He covered the last six months of the Kuomintang administration and the first six months of the incoming Maoist government (the People's Republic). He also photographed the last surviving Imperial eunuchs in Beijing, as the city was falling to the communists. From China, he continued on to Indonesia, where he documented the independency of the country from the Dutch.
In 1952, he published his book The Decisive Moment. It featured a portfolio of 126 of his photos from the East and the West. The book's cover drawn by Henri Matisse. Henri's 4,500-word philosophical preface was where the term Decisive Moment was born. He wrote in French, taking his keynote text from the 17th-century Cardinal de Retz: "Il n'y a rien dans ce monde qui n'ait un moment decisif." This translates as: "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment." Henri applied this to his photographic style. Henri said: "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression." Tériade, the Greek-born French publisher whom Henri idolized, gave the book its French title, Images à la Sauvette, which can loosely be translated as "Shooting or images on the run," or "stolen images." American publisher, Dick Simon of Simon & Schuster, came up with the English title, The Decisive Moment. Margot Shore, Magnum's Paris bureau chief, did the English translation of Henri's French preface.
"Photography is not like painting," he told The Washington Post in 1957. "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative," he said. "Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."
Henri held his first exhibition in France at the Pavillon de Marsan in the Louvre Museum in 1955.
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