I set this photo up and shot it as though it was happening in real time.
Since I can remember, I’ve been accused of someone lacking in patience. I don’t necessarily agree with that except for when it comes to “making pictures”.
One of my all-time favorite “Pearls of Wisdom” is, “I don’t photograph what I see, because I never see what I want; so I photograph what I’d like to see”. What I mean is that I love throwing a camera over my shoulder and go out to “take pictures”. This is usually when I’m traveling, and sometimes I get photos that I really like and sometimes I don’t.
With my online class with the BPSOP, and in my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops I conduct around the planet, I talk a lot about the difference between taking and making pictures.
What I prefer to do is go out and “make pictures”. I like to set things up and then stand back and shoot in a repertoire fashion. In other words, I have complete control of the action, and I’m after a photo that looks real…as if I just happened to capture it. The look of being at the right place at the right time.
In all these images, I set the action up and then photographed it as though it was really happening. Give it a try sometime. It will take some pre-visualization on your part, but you’ll like the results…and you don’t have to rely on a virtue called patience for it to happen!!! 🙂
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JoeB
