Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen sez: > >Further, this whole decisive moment thing makes little sense. Go look at > >HCB's contact sheets. This was a guy really working scenes - shooting > >and shooting and shooting, and out of those dozens and dozens of shots > >came the one shot that captured the "decisive moment -" to the point > >that I would argue that the decisive moment is that instant when the > >light bulb goes on and you realize that the scene that lays before you > >contains the possibility of an important/worthwhile image. I saw a film documentary that showed HCB at work in the streets; he was shooting the little ltm leica as if it had a motordrive. He'd fire the shot, and draw his forefinger along the side of the winding knob in a fashion that had him ready in a mille-second. He fired several shots in succession, then glanced at the cameraman and smiled. SonC - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html