Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Decisive moment in making


Ever since the works from Henri Cartier-Bresson became aware by public and particular so, photography enthusiasts are craving to capture the decisive moments, even in digital age, today, me included.
Wanting to capture the moment is one thing, really getting there is another.  Not that it is impossible or even difficult, it is simply that the certain moment in a sequence has different interpretation by many, and you can go on with technical limitations such as shutter time Lag, one’s own reaction from mind to his fingertip, and on and on. Considering the movie frame rate, 24P, a progressive format that is in fact precisely 23.976fps, arrived here with varies historical and mechanical history better to read here. Anyway, this says the fluid motion we saw on a movie was in fact running at almost 24 frames in a second, compares to our camera which usually firing at 3-6fps, to get the exact one we intended to, does take some hard practice and sometimes a bit of luck, or one might just do it over and over, and over.
The true point is, even watching the movie, each one saw the moment differently, and therefore their approach of capturing the specific moment will be different. No one is wrong.  Because the photographer was not defined by the moment he captured, rather, a photographer is defined for the moment he chooses to capture.

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