> The "decisive moment" was important only because of the limitations of > the technology that was widespread at the time, not because there is > any inherent Righteousness to it.
It does, seem to me though, that you're diminishing the skill of the photographer.. Human vision doesn't perceive single images at the frame rates you're discussing. Therefore the photographer didn't truly see the single image they captured, as they captured it. If not 'righteousness', there's at least a degree of honesty in that. Where should most of the credit go then, for capturing that decisive moment when a single frame is extracted from 1000's? To the photographer or to the video camera? If a great single image is captured are you saying that's because of the skill of the videographer? I'd beg to differ. In that case, using the model example, I'd say the single great still was more attributable to the sexy model's good looks, the fashion artists, the makeup technicians, and hairstylists. The video/photographer may have shot a great video, but they DID NOT shoot a great still image. If a videographer shoots a great video and it's viewed as such, a great video, then I find that totally acceptable. The work produced was viewed as intended and judged on those merits. If I were the videographer, I for one, one would be loathe to pick the fantastic still image out of 1000's of video frames and proclaim "LOOK WHAT I DID!". That strikes me as a bit disingenuous (not a personal attack on you). Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
