threesea
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« on: June 26, 2008, 10:57:37 AM » |
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I suppose that if you had the wherewithal to strategically place a number of video recorders around an event and taped it for the duration, a recorder could then go back and blind themselves over the next few weeks scanning the million odd images for those precious moments of life, those singular slices of time that elicit the oohs and ahs from the viewing audience.
However, the logistics of such an endeavor precludes that from occurring, with much gratitude from family and friends of the recorder no doubt. Instead, as a hybrid to that, the recorder goes about and "machine guns" moments, fanning off a dozen or so shots of virtually identical images. With likely hundreds if not thousands of mundane and inconsequential pictures, the recorder will spend days agonizing over minute detail, oblivious to the overall lack of esthetic appeal that the image has. Naturally, it never dawns on the recorder, until possibly now, that the awe inspiring picture rarely if ever appears for the simple reason that it takes a fraction of a blink to capture an image, but comparatively, the time it takes for the camera to reset for the next shot is an eternity. So it is during these blind electromechanical processes when those precious moments slip by unseen.
A photographer, on the other hand, moves about the fabric of life, observing its weave, learning the patterns of motion, light and shade, and geometry, and with a single shot captures the image which elicits the audience's awe, the reward of true art.
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