Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM, H. Ball Arche <h_arche at yahoo.com> wrote: > If my photographs only showed me I'd already seen - flat, without the smell > and the noise, and stripped of the sense of a rushing moment in the time of > their own making - I'd have quit in boredom a long time ago. It's the > wonder > in a camera's capacity to catch something I could never have seen in that > moment, the discovery of some chance combination of form and light, a lucky > combination of expression and gesture, that keeps me at it. My favorites of > my own photographs are ones I look at and think 'I don't remember it that > way at all'. Maybe I oversimplified my point; I have a bad habit of doing that. My best pictures, I always say, are the ones that jump out in front of my camera and get caught. Sometimes I see the light first, then I see something coming into the light and shoot. Sometimes I see something first and watch for it to get into good light and shoot. Sometimes I see something and wait for it to do something and shoot. Most of the time, I try to have a camera with me, with a fresh battery, set for the correct ISO, so I can be ready to be lucky if a shot comes along, just in case, you understand. -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) USA