Google| Subject | Re: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D |
| From | Tony Cooper |
| Date | 12/06/2013 21:11 (12/06/2013 15:11) |
| Message-ID | <8714a9dlljtvhasv99ut2uvghqm92e28ef@4ax.com> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | Savageduck |
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 08:17:18 -0800, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:
SavageduckExpand you're thinking there, Duck. While "action" shots require instant reaction, the good action shooter knows how to anticipate where the action will be. That qualifies as "pre-visualization" to me.
How did Capa pre-visualize these 11 shots? < http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html >
Pre-visualization can work as a technique for static shots such as landscapes, studio portraits, fashion photography, etc. we have learned that from Adams. However, when it comes to action shots, it is a matter of documenting that action by capturing the moment. That applies to war/combat photography, sports photography & Cartier-Bresson style street. Those photographers might be able to predict an action as the subjects pass through a particular target area, but they are not likely to predict or pre-visualize the result. ...and yet they are photographers.
A sports photographer capturing that finger-tip pass reception in the end zone cannot not visualize the actual scene, but he positions himself and follows the receiver in his viewfinder in such a way that the action shot can be captured. He's visualizing what can happen.
The foreign correspondent photographer following a street riot tries to anticipate where the action will be and when. He's visualizing a shot where rioters are throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails, not just a static scene of a crowd, so he follows certain rioters with his lens and watches body English to anticipate who will throw something.
Street photography involves visualization. In this shot, I wanted to show a player with dominoes in his hand, and not just some people sitting around a table with dominoes on it. I got lucky the facial expression, but that's because I waited until the visualization of what I wanted to shoot worked out.
http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/Current-Shots/i-VgssR8K/0/X2/2013-11-20-103b-X2.jpg
A lot of my shots are "grab" shots, but the better ones are where I've seen in my mind what I wanted to capture, and positioned myself in such a way that I could capture that scene. I have something in mind. Maybe a particular object in the background, an action of some sort, or even an angle.
"Visualization" and "anticipation" are not synonyms, but the concept is synonymous in that a photographer visualizes what he wants to capture and anticipating where that scene will materialize. You can't really anticipate what will develop unless you have some scene pre-visualized.
-- Tony Cooper - Orlando FL
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