3/22/2023 0 Comments Capture the moment photography![]() ![]() We kept driving while making comments like: “Hey kids – look at the sun sparkle in the ice. The kids were kicking each other in the back seat fighting about whatever siblings always fight about and everyone was in one of those post-Christmas-morning-tired-grumpy-moods.īut as we’re driving on, the sun was sinking lower in the sky and it started to shine and sparkle through all of the ice covering the fields, bushes and trees. We were at least an hour late leaving (as usual – that’s how we roll) and totally stressed out about yet another fun filled family Christmas dinner. ![]() As we left the city behind, we started to pass fields, bushes and trees – still covered with ice. It’s about an hour drive through the country. Then, the day after Christmas, we had to drive to the in-laws for a visit. So we never got outside to take photos with the ice, which was really bumming me out as a lost opportunity. That, and the camera batteries were mostly dead anyway. Of course, when you are just trying to survive without electricity, the last thing you want to do is go outside and take pictures. We kept saying: “Hey, we should get out of our pajamas and bath robes, put some nice clothes on, go out and take some photos before the ice disappears.” ![]() Ice, as it turns out, is quite beautiful. Outside, everything was covered in a layer of ice (at least the zombies would be frozen). But, after three days of trying to stay warm indoors you start to run out of booze, the kids get kind of squirrely, your cell phone and iPad batteries die and you start to realize just how hopelessly unprepared you are for the Zombie Apocalypse. Most of that time our family spent hanging out, playing board games and drinking wine at a friend’s place where there was a fireplace. Just before Christmas, we had a major ice storm that knocked out our power for three days. Every photography shoot has at least one curveball – sometimes you get an unexpected home run.)īut the point is, I never really believed in the concept of “capture the moment”. (Well, OK, sometimes you do get a little lucky. Sure, it’s a genuine moment, but there is nothing random or lucky about getting that shot. I see photography more along the lines of first creating moments, then photographing them as they unfold.įor example, capturing a rock climber at sunrise in the process of sticking a daring grab with a gorgeous vista in the background is not capturing the moment. To me, “capture the moment” basically means: Put your camera in program auto and high speed burst, take 5000 photos of a wedding, a few will be nice moments – and voilà – you are a capture the moment photographer! But, genuine moments are different than random accidental moments when a photographer happens to get lucky. Well as it turns out, every once in a while you can capture the moment!Īs a professional photographer, I have never thought of photography in terms of capturing the moment.Ĭapturing genuine moments – for sure, that is the goal of every photographer. I mean, as if I am ever going to be in just the right place, with just the right equipment, with just the right models, wearing just the right clothes, with just the right light, at just the right time…? Plus the whole idea of capturing the moment is ridiculous. It just sounds so lame and cliché – accidental even. ![]()
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