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How many of you will envisage a photograph in your mind when you see

something the first time and then make a note of this to later go

back and get the shot you envisaged when the right elements are in

place?

Or to put it another way, do you see potential of a shot in a

certain location and then think of what would make the shot and then

revisit the place to nail the 'decisive moment'?

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Most of the time, I have the mindset, "It's shot, so it's done", and I don't go back. My theory is that I can do the shot differently, but not necessarily better. But there is one place, a waterfall, that I have gone back to and will again because, so far, the image that I KNOW is there has eluded me and it has become a challenge....
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I guess I kinda do this. Usually I see the best shots when I don't have a camera with me. But to tell you the truth I think that's why my mind thinks they're the best shots.

 

I'll come back the next day at the same time with the same conditions but this time with a camera. For 24 hours my brain has been envisioning just how pretty the scene was and just how I was going to capture it. Once I get there with the camera my usual thought is, "why the hell did I want to take a picture of this?"

 

Kind of how you always want what you can't have. When you don't have a camera to capture something your mind is free to make it appear however you want; and mine usually lies.

 

Alan

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execution is key, but a well executed image with out vision is not much of an

image.<br><br>

Images I'm most proud of are those where I had a clear vision of what I wanted to capture,

planned to execute the shot and executed as planned. Completing this cycle is very

difficult and seldom appreciated.<br><br>

 

An example of images that fall into this category for me:<br>

<a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/3610756">Eyeris</a>

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<a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/2867328">Celestial Wind</a>

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In my opinion images that result from chance or serendipity are great, but having the

forethought, skill and good fortune to get an image you envisioned is all the more special.

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This is a site I have been returning to for years through the four seasons....For about 100 years it had the longest railway trestle in Canada, now gone. <a href="http://wjgibson.ca/images/hog.jpg">Hogg Bay taken in fall with a Leica IIIf, 5cm Elmar f3.5 lens on Fuji NPH film</a>

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Back in 2002 while taking some photos at this place, a small incident occurred with my eyeglasses and Murphy's Law <a href="http://www.bluetyger.ca/issue13/hiriskphotography.htm">High Risk Photography, well, sort of...</a>

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I carry a note pad with me to note time and place so I can revisit the scene.

 

The longest that I've returned to an area to get a shot was about two and a half months but I return to areas on a regular basis to "mine" images from a particularly photographic area cause of the changes that time brings on.

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Definitely. I don't get too serious about it (or much of anything for that matter, probably why I never got rich or thin) but a good looking spot, I'll check it out in different seasons, at different times

 

Sometimes thers's not a lot there, but sometimes it's magic

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Sometimes I scout a location and make note of what kind of lighting I'll want when I return. Having said that, I'm constantly reminded of how often I got some shots that I liked, but planned to come back later for another session, only to find that the subject had changed. The best example is my shot of a red door (singles folder) which was painted light brown a few weeks later.

 

. . . or the piano in a ditch by the side of the road which was there for a second session (but the light was lousy and there was too much rust) and had vanished completely when I showed up a third time.

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...I thought that's what everybody did? That's how careful work is done, isn't it? If we settle for what's there right then then it's more apt to be no more interesting than any 'snapshot'. Spending a week or so around the area to enable yourself to go back again and again is best. Or just things you see every day. My green waterfall was shot dozens of times before the one I have posted was made.<div>00DugR-26142984.thumb.jpg.465617d2f5d27c7a3a1db9acd0cc9227.jpg</div>
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