Pål Jensen wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > > > I don't see it as the same thing at all -- tripod spot and story line. > > Although boy gets girl boy loses girl boy gets girl -- if you are broad > > and > > inclusive enough when talking about a story line --- sure. I think someone > > said once > > there are only seven different stories anyway. > > My point is that this goes far beyond that. These people try to recreate the > exact image. To the extent of standing in the same tripod holes, exactly the > same light; exactly the same time of day - they even try to get the moon in > exactly the same place in the sky! > Theres nothing wrong trying to shoot varioations of this scene - even > stanting near or in the tripod holes. But this is obviously something else. > > Pål
and it is an impossible one, too. Doing it as an exercise probably teaches something to those who are doing it. What I like to remember is that moon over Hernadez New Mexico was essentially a grab shot :) Maybe ten years ago or more a photo mag ran something on revisiting the scenes of such great photos (that New Mexico moon included) they wer all lame. ann (nope I don't remember when and where it ws exactly)
