Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well said. Hipshooting is certainly not random, but can be most serendipitous: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/portfolios/humantraffic/edits/hard/pages/ 014.html Not a bad shot as I imagine (the fantasy is my right) it was originally conceived, three figures, something going on. I wouldn't pass it up, and if there wasn't time to bend down and look through the finder (raising the camera would completely change the drawing), I'd grab it. And then one looks at the negative the next day and sees that light that only the camera had seen at first, and WOW! But I'm not about to put gaffer's tape over my viewfinder :) Gilbert On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 06:49 PM, Johnny Deadman wrote: >> I agree with Martin. Since I have used the analogy before, and since >> I >> still consider it apt, here goes: if 100 monkeys turn out 300 pages of >> crap, is picking out a page or two or twelve where the random typing >> created a word considered "editing"? > > Hipshooting isn't random. It does introduce a larger element of chance > into the compositional game, but there are tradeoffs in the speed of > response. If you take a look at the contact sheets of any well-known > street photographer you will discover that most of them hipshoot, some > almost exclusively. Robert Frank certainly did it, HCB too, and Garry > Winogrand (despite his over-strenuous protestations to the contrary). > > What if I had not told you that they were hipshot, and presented one > frame that you liked? Would knowing it was hipshot change the picture? > Why should it therefore change your response to it? What if I had > taken a million frames, and one was a masterpiece? What if I told you > that this picture: > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/portfolios/humantraffic/edits/hard/ > pages/001.html > > was shot without looking through the viewfinder? (I chose it because a > lot of people like that one). Was it? I've absolutely no idea. That's > how much difference it makes. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html