Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/02

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Subject: [Leica] PAW2005 last
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Jan 2 07:14:56 2006
References: <C53807DE-6826-4051-8BAB-97886E130501@pandora.be> <003101c60fa9$e0745d90$2ee76c18@ted>

OK, Ted: you're absolutely right.

About other crops: I have this silly personal theory working against  
me for such things.
It's something I retained from my arching days very long ago.

There were 2 shooting styles, called resp. American and Japanese style.

American style was: exercising the perfect shooting movement and  
sequence over and over again until it became an automatism, before  
actually starting to shoot at targets.
When shooting at targets: let the arrow go the moment you saw the  
bull's eye in target. And then up to the next arrow.
So a very fast, intuitive and impulsive shooting style.

Japanese style was doing it the slow way. Aiming at the target and  
holding, holding, holding until you 'thought' the arrow in the bull's  
eye. The theory said you'd let the arrow automatically go the moment  
your thoughts were right.
So a very contemplative and mental shooting style.

In arching, I preferred the American style, because I didn't believe  
in the whole 'thinking the arrow in the target' thing.
Without much succes, I must say: didn't master the movements perfectly.

So, when taking up photography again, I decided not to go for the  
American style, since that didn't work for me in arching, but for the  
Japanese style: thinking the photo right and then shooting one.
Sitting there with the camera mounted, and waiting for that one moment.
The result: very seldomly I make more than one photo of one situation.

It doesn't result in a bull's eye photograph every time either,  
though :-)

But if it means one thing, it's this: sometimes I hit, sometimes I  
miss. If I miss, another opportunity will come by. And if I miss, I  
learn. (if not by myself, then by excellent photographers like you)
And one day, I will make the 'perfect' photograph. All the  
photographs taken before that, are just paving the road towards that  
one photograph.
It keeps me going, it keeps me amused and I tend to content myself  
with that.

That's why I'll never be a pro. Sometimes people ask me why I don't  
go that way, but I just couldn't live with the stress of having to  
make a perfect one every time again.
And that's why I so much respect good photo professionals.
---

Op 2-jan-06, om 15:36 heeft Ted Grant het volgende geschreven:

> Philippe Orlent showed:
>> Never thought I'd be able to keep this up for 1 year, but very  
>> happy  that I did.
>> PAW2006 next :-)
>> > The final picture for 2005 can be veiwed here:
>> http://tinyurl.com/8jolr<<<<<<<
>
> Philippe,
> Why did you spoil it by chopping off the head of the person in the  
> background? In this case an absolute no-no!
>
> Simply because it's such an obvious chopping job it becomes eye  
> point rather than the viewer's eyes locking on the young lad!
>
> Did you not shoot any when it showed him eyes up looking at  
> whatever vehicle was going around the track.
>
> Quite frankly this is a nothing picture simply because the Camera  
> could have gone vertical, you go click and may have had a better  
> photographic moment!
>
> Better luck next time.
>
> ted
>
>
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