Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don: Didn't mean to indicate the HCB puddle jumper had Henri yelling encore, encore...till he got it right. Only that it was a situation happening more than once. One interview of HCB made when he was in his eighties seemed to show a man much too hyper to stand still for long. Walt p.s. At that distance, with a 50mm, it's all hyper focal. :-P Don Dory wrote: >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 >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >