Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 6 Sep 2006 at 5:06, H. Ball Arche wrote: > beforehand. And that's kind of unnerving- the > implication that you have to 'lose it' to 'get it', so > to speak. Not so much, I think. It's a pretty basic concept in many ecstatic philosophical practices, and AFAIK just about all sports. Think "flow" or "satori" or "no mind" if you're of that bent. It's not so much that you "lose it" as that you just learn sometimes to get out of its way. The shots you don't realize you took are frequently the best of them. Like Grampa Ted says, "holy ____! Look at That!" and if you didn't get the camera click somewhere between the "look" and the "That!" you might as well go buy a beer to cry into, because the party's over. That's what the whole "decisive moment" thing IS. It's a trained, quasi-instinctive response to situations - why pj's don't like lens caps or "auto power off" cameras (and why on the whole pjs chimp a lot less than civilians). You're in the moment, something happens, you shoot it. No thought allowed. SImple as that. -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request