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It does mean I fire off even more shots than usual.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 12:23:00 PM EST
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No, no, no... It's not because digital is cheap (picture side) that we must shoot again (tilt-shoot again)... Unless we try something like documenting a crime scene, or being paid for a "great" picture !

There's often something inspiring in looking at what was at the moment a "bad" picture... It can have strength and a value we didn't see at the shooting time (like In Whales' crab) !

Limiting oneself to one shot of a given scene gets back to what Colman called "thinking" with primes, some replies up there ! If it ain't good enough... You'll try again another day... And if it's an unique event ? Then one shot should suffice anyhow ! (I'm thinking of Robert Capa's pictures of D-Day)

In the "golden sixties" with "Blow up" (the film) the whirr and the schlack of motorized reflex cameras was the bang... It still is in media rooms!
But maybe not for most of us who try to capture the essence of the instant... In one frame !

Otherwise it's already movie directing... :-)

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 12:38:51 PM EST
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