Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I believe that what you're saying, Walt, is a description of how HCB saw and worked; he was attracted by the possibilities in situations, and then worked them until he achieved his vision. On 3/21/06 10:04 AM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > Don: > > Didn't mean to indicate the HCB puddle jumper had Henri yelling encore, > encore...till he got it right. Only that it was a situation happening > more than once. One interview of HCB made when he was in his eighties > seemed to show a man much too hyper to stand still for long. > > Walt > > p.s. At that distance, with a 50mm, it's all hyper focal. :-P > > > > Don Dory wrote: > >> Walt, >> I don't believe it was a set up. If you look at the proof sheet, it was >> originally shot as a horizontal and the print is a heavily cropped >> version. >> If HCB set it up then I believe there would not be so much post >> production. >>> From the contact sheet, it apears the puddle was a obvious spot for foot >> travel and the hyperfocal distance means that once you identified the >> spot, >> you could hang around for something interesting to jump out at you. >> >> Don >> don.dory@gmail.com >> >> >> On 3/20/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: >> >> >>> B.D., >>> >>> Now that we are back on course and discussion images I have a question. >>> Do you think the Saint-Lazare puddle jumper was a set up? Know anyone >>> quick enough to get a scene like that with an old 1930s Leica? If it >>> were a situation expected to occur then maybe but slice of life??? >>> Another questionable image is Capa's /Loyalist Soldier /bitting the >>> dust. Having seen a sequence of that take I'll never believe it is real. >>> >>> Would be very interested in your opinion.... Really admire HCB and Capa >>> and don't think these instances made them less than great. As you know, >>> sometimes we get carried away with enthusiasm. Can you imagine Capa >>> returning home from Spain and finding fame waiting there? Sure, he is >>> going to jump in with both feet and say "hey fellas, that guy didn't >>> really get shot". Well, at least when we die and get to Photographer >>> Hell we can ask them in person. >>> >>> Walt >>> >>> >>> >>> B. D. Colen wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> As I always tell my students - the "decisive moment" isn't the moment >>>> you >>>> release the shutter, it's the instant when you see the photographic >>>> possibilities in a situation and start working it. Think of the HCB >>>> photo >>>> >>>> >>> of >>> >>> >>>> the guy jumping the puddle - the decisive moment was that instant when >>>> he >>>> saw the puddle through the fence, and realized what he could make of it. >>>> >>>> >>> The >>> >>> >>>> photo of the bike going past the bottom of the staircase? That would be >>>> >>>> >>> the >>> >>> >>>> moment he realize that the stair case and the curved street could yield >>>> a >>>> visually interesting image - because of course we know that HCB was far >>>> >>>> >>> more >>> >>> >>>> interested in form, light, shapes and shadow than he was in people and >>>> events. ;-) >>>> >>>> >>>> On 3/20/06 7:42 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>> HCB contact sheets. He said he was amazed at what a prolific shooter >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> HCB > >>> >>> >>>>>> was- shot after shot after shot after shot of the same subject, worked >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information