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Subject: [Leica] Is this true?
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:01:18 -0700
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On Jul 29, 2014, at 12:10 AM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote:

> Wow, I had never thought of this. Street photography is one of my 
> favorites, as is airshows. My mindset is always looking for the moment or 
> for the photo, I'm not really consciously thinking as much as just looking 
> for what to me are obvious photos.

as in, hey ! look at that !

> Not everyone sees what I see as obvious, and are surprised at the results, 
> usually in a positive way, but sometimes in a What Were You Thinking way. 
> To me photography has always been an instinctive thing. Maybe that's why I 
> have never done elaborate studio shots, not do I want to.


what life gives you is virtually always better than what you can think up 
your self....! 

You just must be alert to it, and ready....


> 
> Hope I don't start thinking too much now. This has been sort of eye 
> opening about my process, which is often dramatically different from 
> others.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Ted Grant
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 11:51 PM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Is this true?
> 
> HOLY COW WAYNE! :-)
> 
> Man that's a lot of time in thinking when a downhill Olympic skier is 
> coming
> at you close to a hundred miles an hour! :-)
> 
> Or your shooting Indy car racing or other forms of car racing trust me you
> don't put to much thought in to it. But rather shoot by instinct. Besides
> when you are being paid good money to come home with great action photos 
> the
> only thought process is usually... "JEEESH I HOPE THEY LIKE THE STUFF?" But
> I suppose to each his own in our own little ways.
> cheers,
> ted
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf Of
> Duane Birkey
> Sent: July-28-14 6:01 PM
> To: Lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Is this true?
> 
> Well a quote is something that was true to the person who said it in the
> context they said it in...   And if the context was people who were 
> thinking
> about taking pictures instead of taking the moment as it happened... and as
> a result they missed the moment altogether...   well there is truth to
> that...
> 
> 
> 
> On the other hand...  I never stop thinking when I am taking pictures...
> I'm thinking about what is actually happening...  what I want to capture...
> what moments may happen...  where I need to be to get those...  where is 
> the
> light coming from....  what do I want to include or eliminate from the
> background...
> 
> 
> 
> As a moment happens.. I'm normally already in the right spot to start
> shooting...  but I'm still thinking about whether the moment is over...  
> and
> if there is another moment coming up...   and if I need to move one way or
> another... get closer or back up...    and can I get a better shot...
> 
> 
> 
> There is fine line between thinking and instinct....   but I think a lot of
> great photographers have the ability to think and shoot at the same time...
> most amateurs do not...
> 
> 
> 
> I have to look at a lot of photos taken by people who do not think before,
> during or after they take pictures...  They don't think about lighting,
> composition, exposure, backgrounds... or for that matter what the subject 
> is
> and what the photo communicates....    And while they do often take photos
> at the right moment..  everything else is wrong...   that is picture
> taking...   me....  I prefer picture making...   : )
> 
> 
> 
> Duane
> 
> ?
> 
> ******************************************
> 
> Ted wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi CREW!
> 
> A quotation for consideration??? Right or wrong?????
> 
>>>> When you take pictures "Hell don't think, click the moment! That's
> picture taking!"
> 
> C&C welcome.
> 
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
> 
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