robertjm wrote:
More to it than simply a drive by photo op.
As I remember it, he was traveling with some people and they passed Hernandez by. About 30 minutes down the road, an epiphany struck and they headed back to Hernandez, setting up and capturing the photograph just as what light there was disappeared.
Had it been captured at first glance, it would not have been as spectacular. And had the wait been a few minutes longer, it would have been lost.
Something to ponder since that\'s probably his most famous (at least talked about) photograph of his career.
Robert
RustyBug wrote:
The story on Hernandez is that it was a \"quick, stop the car\" kinda thing...
As his son (who was there) relayed the story to me (et al).
Whether it was a \"backtrack\" or a \"quick, stop\", ... it simply infers that he had limited time to capture his fleeting light that he envisioned for his image. Thousands of images have been made with a similar storyline ... albeit few that carry the epicly romanticized power of his story that people fell in love with.
Not to take away from AA ... but it isn\'t like he is the only photographer in the history of the craft to do the very same thing. The masterfulness of it comes in the extent to which he tediously worked the image till he got it the way he wanted it ... in its striking way that it is so different from what a \"straight print\" would have been.
There is much about AA that set him apart from others ... but there is also much about AA that is the same about him that exists in others ... both preceding him and following him. The vast majority fail to harness those attributes to fruition the way he did.
robertjm wrote:
More to it than simply a drive by photo op.
As I remember it, he was traveling with some people and they passed Hernandez by. About 30 minutes down the road, an epiphany struck and they headed back to Hernandez, setting up and capturing the photograph just as what light there was disappeared.
Had it been captured at first glance, it would not have been as spectacular. And had the wait been a few minutes longer, it would have been lost.
Something to ponder since that\'s probably his most famous (at least talked about) photograph of his career.
Robert
RustyBug wrote:
The story on Hernandez is that it was a \"quick, stop the car\" kinda thing...
As his son (who was there) relayed the story to me (et al).
Whether it was a \"backtrack\" or a \"quick, stop\", ... it simply infers that he had limited time to capture his fleeting light that he envisioned for his image. Thousands of images have been made with a similar storyline ... albeit few that carry the epicly romanticized power of his story that people fell in love with.
Not to take away from AA ... but it isn\'t like he is the only photographer in the history of the craft to do the very same thing. The masterfulness of it comes in the extent to which he tediously worked the image till he got it the way he wanted it ... in its striking way that it is so different from what a \"straight print\" would have been.
There is much about AA that set him apart from others ... but there is also much about AA that is the same about him that exists in others ... both preceding him and following him.
robertjm wrote:
More to it than simply a drive by photo op.
As I remember it, he was traveling with some people and they passed Hernandez by. About 30 minutes down the road, an epiphany struck and they headed back to Hernandez, setting up and capturing the photograph just as what light there was disappeared.
Had it been captured at first glance, it would not have been as spectacular. And had the wait been a few minutes longer, it would have been lost.
Something to ponder since that\'s probably his most famous (at least talked about) photograph of his career.
Robert
RustyBug wrote:
The story on Hernandez is that it was a \"quick, stop the car\" kinda thing...
As his son (who was there) relayed the story to me (et al).
Whether it was a \"backtrack\" or a \"quick, stop\", ... it simply infers that he had limited time to capture his fleeting light that he envisioned for his image. Thousands of images have been made with a similar storyline ... albeit few that carry the epicly romanticized power of his story that people fell in love with.
Not to take away from AA ... but it isn\'t like he is the only photographer in the history of the craft to do the very same thing. The masterfulness of it comes in the extent to which he tediously worked the image till he got it the way he wanted it ... in its striking way that it is so different from what a \"straight print\" would have been.
robertjm wrote:
More to it than simply a drive by photo op.
As I remember it, he was traveling with some people and they passed Hernandez by. About 30 minutes down the road, an epiphany struck and they headed back to Hernandez, setting up and capturing the photograph just as what light there was disappeared.
Had it been captured at first glance, it would not have been as spectacular. And had the wait been a few minutes longer, it would have been lost.
Something to ponder since that\'s probably his most famous (at least talked about) photograph of his career.
Robert
RustyBug wrote:
The story on Hernandez is that it was a \"quick, stop the car\" kinda thing...
As his son relayed the story to me (et al).
Whether it was a \"backtrack\" or a \"quick, stop\", ... it simply infers that he had limited time to capture his fleeting light that he envisioned for his image. Thousands of images have been made with a similar storyline ... albeit few that carry the epicly romanticized power of his story that people fell in love with.
Not to take away from AA ... but it isn\'t like he is the only photographer in the history of the craft to do the very same thing. The masterfulness of it comes in the extent to which he tediously worked the image till he got it the way he wanted it ... in its striking way that it is so different from what a \"straight print\" would have been.
robertjm wrote:
More to it than simply a drive by photo op.
As I remember it, he was traveling with some people and they passed Hernandez by. About 30 minutes down the road, an epiphany struck and they headed back to Hernandez, setting up and capturing the photograph just as what light there was disappeared.
Had it been captured at first glance, it would not have been as spectacular. And had the wait been a few minutes longer, it would have been lost.
Something to ponder since that\'s probably his most famous (at least talked about) photograph of his career.
Robert
RustyBug wrote:
The story on Hernandez is that it was a \"quick, stop the car\" kinda thing...
Simplified inferring that he had limited time to capture his fleeting light that he envisioned for his image. Thousands of images have been made with a similar storyline ... albeit few that carry the epicly romanticized power of his story that people fell in love with.
Not to take away from AA ... but it isn\'t like he is the only photographer in the history of the craft to do the very same thing. The masterfulness of it comes in the extent to which he tediously worked the image till he got it the way he wanted it ... in its striking way that it is so different from what a \"straight print\" would have been.
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