[Leica] soleil, christmas morning...

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

thanks Ted...your comments are spot on, and very appropriate. best Steve


On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Steve Barbour showed:
> Subject: [Leica] soleil, Christmas morning...
>> http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-90817.html<<<
>
> Hi Steve,
> Another child moment that works because of her face re-action. One  
> can imagine the wheels spinning in her head as she rips away  
> wrapping paper.
>
> These simple family moments succeed because the photographer ......  
> "reads body action!"...... And that's the key to the success of  
> many pictures, family moments or other wise. It's not just looking  
> at the overall scene, it's the simple nuance of her open mouth, her  
> finger tips and overall expression.
>
> Anyone finding themselves with time to kill waiting for whatever,  
> can learn about reading body language simply looking at passing  
> people and what do you see? Its amazing how much we as humans  
> telegraph what's going on in our thoughts visually and not realize  
> we're doing it.
>
> However a photographer who reads body - facial language can make  
> for some amazingly story telling photographs. Or it can certainly  
> add to the impact of your pictures once you realize how to read it.
>
> By the way, a great airport time filler, at least you're doing  
> something useful instead of warming your ass in a chair waiting for  
> boarding call. The point is, what do you read in other people  
> involved in conversation, walking by, you name it and you can find  
> a million picture moments in faces and body carriage can be very  
> story telling visually. You just have to make yourself aware of it  
> even though you may not shoot it. These learning moments are  
> "FREE!" Use them! Learn as we never stop learning and improving.
>
> By observing all this prepares you for the time when you're  
> shooting a child un-wrapping a gift photo moment, an old timer  
> fiddling with a piece of wool, whatever. And all the time reading  
> faces and bodies without shooting pays off because now you're  
> looking at this scene completely different than just a kind of  
> overall mass.
>
> It's simple little things like this that will sort your pictures  
> out from the "happy snapper who just clicks away wantonly without  
> seeing the nuances of the moment, but believing they're shooting  
> interesting photographs.
>
> Watch a person reading a magazine or newspaper, watch the face as  
> they telegraph their inner re-actions to what they're reading or  
> have just read. And they do it without making a sound! ;-)  Million  
> dollar series in just this alone.
>
> Anyway Steve once again a very nice simply caught family moment!
> good on you.
> ted
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