Google| Subject | Re: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D |
| From | Floyd L. Davidson |
| Date | 12/06/2013 18:46 (12/06/2013 08:46) |
| Message-ID | <87a9gddg8u.fld@apaflo.com> |
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Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:
SavageduckPeterN
Should Robert Capa, then not have been considered a "top photographer"?
He had an instinct for dram and how light affects the image.
SavageduckHowever, in fact Robert Capa had a talend for knowing what would sell, and how to create that if he wasn't close enough to the real action.
He had a talent for being where the action was and documenting that action in whatever light was available. He wasn't able to wait around for suitable light for an art shot. He wasn't particularly interested in producing art and that was what killed him in Viet Nam.
Not much planning or pre-visualizing here, and he did none of his own developing and printing. He was a photographer, pure and simple. He provided his agency with rolls of exposed film. < http://barbarapicci.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/robert-capa-2.jpg?w=1200&h= >That image is commonly known as "The Falling Soldier" and was taken in Spain, apparently on September 5, 1936 near the "Cordoba front" at Cerro Muriano in Andalusia.
The problem is that the the landscape shown in the image is in fact located 30 miles away from the front, near Espejo, Cordoba and was well removed any actual battle.
Which is to say your "not much planning or pre-visualization" here is exactly the opposite. It was a bit too much planning. The image was staged.
(Keep in mind that Capa was 22 years old.)
-- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
11/30/2013-
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