On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:52 PM, William Robb
<[email protected]> wrote:
> What I discovered while looking at my contact sheets was
> that even at 9fps, the camera was capturing either slightly before, or
> slightly after the decisive moment of the duel.
Do you see what you just did there? You stopped taking credit, as the
photographer, for when you initially pressed the shutter (which is
still The Decisive Moment) and are now blaming "the camera" for
getting just before and just after what you really wanted, as if it
went off and stopped by itself.
Several other problems with your argument.
1) The motor drive did not eliminate your opportunity to record the
decisive moment (with the first shot), you just chose to use it
differently (and apparently often unsatisfactorally
2) If 9fps was just before or just after what *was* the decisive
moment, then 30 fps would probably have captured it (or had a 333%
better chance of doing so).
3) I would argue that The Decisive Moment is a myth. In the video
that Bob linked to earlier, there are several moments that would have
made for a better story telling shot than the one HCB got. In fact,
his still of that event requires an explanation of what transpired to
understand what you are looking at. The still makes no sense by
itself.
In any event, if a tool is not doing its intended job for you, then
stop using it. But first we should make sure that we aren't being the
poor craftsman that blames his tools.
--
"The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's
own, is to get over the confusion
by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is
the other way around."
-Thomas Moore, "Original Self"
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