Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's both, but more complicated than that, hence this is an important discussion. Anyone who has seen great photographers work, they can see that they "work the scene." Remember Robert Franks took 767 rolls of film to get 84 images. Eisie took at least 4 images of the VJ Kiss, and apparently the Man Did Jump, many times. So what you wrote is not in dispute. However, there is only one shot to get that Trudeau photo, or the Nick Ut's, or the Iwo Jima etc. On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:19 PM, EPL <manolito at videotron.ca> wrote: > The term "decisive moment" is not Cartier-Bresson's. It is a translator's > interpretation of the French title of one of HC-B's books. > > A lot of people like to think it means: "I stood there and took just one > single perfect frame of something that just happened to pass by me -- and > that's why I am a genius. " > > What it really means is: "I captured an image of a spit-second." > > Nothing is real. It is all noise. > > Emanuel > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>