Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, You mean the mother in the bath holding her daughter? He worked insanely hard on getting that photo as I recall. What is "bunch flash"? V On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > Indeed not! > > > > Also there's Doisneau and Boubat. Doisneau is possibly underestimated by > many > > because "The Kiss" is so well known, and some of his shots (the kiss > included) > > were set up, but he did some outstanding work. Boubat is possibly my all > time > > favourite French photographer. He had a wonderful eye and he was one of > those > > whose photographs make me think he was photographing from the inside > looking > > out, where as I've always felt that HCB was an outsider looking inwards - > > which isn't to say he was a bad photographer, just a different one. > > > > Steve > > > You ever see the contact sheet in the contact sheet book of HCB having that > fat guy jump over the mud puddle dozens of times? > You could say that shot was set up too. > Its called "working it" and they way most photographers who made a living > doing photography for magazines or newspapers worked. > But in these case is the prime example of "the decisive moment". > Which was decisively done enough times to decisively get it right. > > The prime example of the wonderfulness of available light is Smiths > Minamata. > And he did it with a bunch flash. > > Its always what you don't think. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >