[Leica] When in doubt ask photographer

[tarek.charara at pix-that-stimulate.com (Tarek Charara)]

Ted,

I think we are thinking this the other way around: it's not about the  
photographer, it's about wether the subject is concentrated or not on  
what he's doing. Believing the subject could "forget" that the  
photographer is in the room or around him taking pictures, is just  
wrong. The photographer can be ignored, but that doesn't mean that  
the subject's unconscious mind isn't aware of his presence and/or  
that the photographer isn't altering the scene by his presence.


All the best from the south of France!

Tarek

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Tarek Charara
<http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com>


Le 13 janv. 08 ? 05:48, Ted Grant a ?crit :

> You know that's not true if the photographer knows his craft! Or he  
> or she
> are people folks who can slide into any level of society or group  
> wherever
> you wish and they become one with what's there.
>
> I mean what your saying is, the surgeons deep in the chest of a  
> patient with
> the heart open wide are conscious that I'm in the OR with them? And  
> they
> play a role?
>
> I'm sorry old buddy, you maybe right if you were one on one in a  
> kitchen and
> someone making pancakes, but there are situations where you or I  
> can be as a
> photojournalist and the people we're photographing don't have a  
> clue we are
> in the vicinity or that we're even alive.