[Leica] Making sure the decisive moment happens

[KCassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

Daniel had some comments:

>> I posted the creation of a decisive afternoon (term coined by bd)
>>
>> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/2004/victoria-blue/
>>
>
>And I was fascinated by the progress of the shoot. You got that last one
>and you knew you had it. I go through the takes and can almost feel that
>you knew what you were looking for, you just hadn't got there yet. When I
>get to the last one I too got the feeling ... "yep, that's it".

I started to comment out that page, but finally left it the way it was, like
you pointed out, you can see as it progresses what I was going for, as each
element gets picked up, the image fills out, and, eventually, there it is.

>I also admired your patience ... and hers :)

I once remarked to my girlfriend "so-and-so, she's a great model" and my
girlfriend, looking down at whatever photo it was said "what makes her so
great?" to which I replied "she shows up on time." which really is my first
gauge of how good a model is. But there are certianly other characteristics,
one of which is a devotion to the final product. You can ask a good model to
run down a hallway 150 times in a row because they're trying their best to
get that last image, the one where everybody goes "yup! That's the one!"

>Best,
>Daniel
>
>PS: Did you prefocus the shot to avoid the rangefinder flare?

I did prefocus indeed. :-)

Thanks for asking,

Kyle