RE: [Leica] Keepers

[Jeffery Smith <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>]

I have about 108 (36x3) decisive moments each week, and about 3 of them are 
really good images. I know of only one person on this forum who can get 
PAWs from January 1 to July 1 from just one roll of film.

I'm hoping that in a few years, I'll have 6 really good ones from 3 rolls. 
Part of my problem is motor drives. But, like a machine gun, my "hit" rate 
has gone up.

Jeffery Smith


At 01:58 PM 3/20/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, Bob, LOL all you want...I would guess that if you asked the average
>photo fan about the Decisive Moment, they would be under the impression that
>what sets HCB apart is his ability to pick out, to grab, that instant that
>will never be repeated.
>
>But bottom line - who cares?
>
>B. D.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of BOB KRAMER
>Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:28 PM
>To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Keepers [was: David Bailey...]
>
>
>B.D., where did you hear such a ridiculous story as to HCB's methodology?
>Sipping on lattes until the decisive moment slaps him in the face, indeed!
>LOL!  Did you or anyone else ever really believe such a thing?  Honestly,
>that is a new one to me.  Everything I have ever heard has him dancing
>around firing off shots like a wild man when he sees something that strikes
>his eye, just like Winogrand, Friedlander, and everyone else trying to do
>quality street photography.
>
>Two comments:
>
>1.  Don't believe every urban legend you hear.
>
>2.  In a way, I wish HCB had never coined the phrase "decisive moment".  It
>really doesn't mean anything at all other than you took a good well timed
>photo with intrinsic artistic value.  This has absolutely nothing to do with
>the actual number of frames that were exposed, and I don't believe HCB ever
>said otherwise.  The phrase has become bastardized to mean many things I
>seriously doubt HCB ever intended it to mean.  Everything to everybody has
>come to be a decisive moment.  It has become too easy, and is therefor
>meaningless.
>
>Cheers,
>BK
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net]
> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Keepers [was: David Bailey...]
> >
> > Yes, Bob - I do have a point. The Legend of HCB and the
> > Decisive Moment has
> > him either strolling along, or sipping his cafe at a cafe,
> > spotting the
> > image of all images, whipping his IIIg to his eye, clicking,
> > and resuming
> > his watching.
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