Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walt, I don't believe it was a set up. If you look at the proof sheet, it was originally shot as a horizontal and the print is a heavily cropped version. If HCB set it up then I believe there would not be so much post production. >From the contact sheet, it apears the puddle was a obvious spot for foot travel and the hyperfocal distance means that once you identified the spot, you could hang around for something interesting to jump out at you. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 3/20/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > > B.D., > > Now that we are back on course and discussion images I have a question. > Do you think the Saint-Lazare puddle jumper was a set up? Know anyone > quick enough to get a scene like that with an old 1930s Leica? If it > were a situation expected to occur then maybe but slice of life??? > Another questionable image is Capa's /Loyalist Soldier /bitting the > dust. Having seen a sequence of that take I'll never believe it is real. > > Would be very interested in your opinion.... Really admire HCB and Capa > and don't think these instances made them less than great. As you know, > sometimes we get carried away with enthusiasm. Can you imagine Capa > returning home from Spain and finding fame waiting there? Sure, he is > going to jump in with both feet and say "hey fellas, that guy didn't > really get shot". Well, at least when we die and get to Photographer > Hell we can ask them in person. > > Walt > > > > B. D. Colen wrote: > > >As I always tell my students - the "decisive moment" isn't the moment you > >release the shutter, it's the instant when you see the photographic > >possibilities in a situation and start working it. Think of the HCB photo > of > >the guy jumping the puddle - the decisive moment was that instant when he > >saw the puddle through the fence, and realized what he could make of it. > The > >photo of the bike going past the bottom of the staircase? That would be > the > >moment he realize that the stair case and the curved street could yield a > >visually interesting image - because of course we know that HCB was far > more > >interested in form, light, shapes and shadow than he was in people and > >events. ;-) > > > > > >On 3/20/06 7:42 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > > > > > > > >>>HCB contact sheets. He said he was amazed at what a prolific shooter > HCB > > >>>was- shot after shot after shot after shot of the same subject, worked > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >