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Cold, hard reality sets in...

Started Jul 9, 2001 | Discussions thread
OP Wayne DeWitt Senior Member • Posts: 1,259
Re: Cold, hard reality sets in...

There's only one thing wrong with "bracketing" of any kind and that is the point in time that you wish for the exposure to be taken will result in one exposure, the others will occur after that point in time. For a lot of the subjects that I photograph that's not important. But try to bracket a child's smile, or look of surprise, or a bird sihouetted by the sun. We're back to the "Decisive Moment" again - and there's really only one.

Mike Roberts wrote:

As Phil's crane animation shows, beware automation.

The burst stuff, I guess, is like bracketing exposures. I think
something interesting is happening so fire off a burst. Then find
that one moment when the tip of Jordan's tongue is just touching
his cheek. Of course, as an arteest, I sneer at such automation.
Why someday we'll have super fast 1000 shots/s burst mode and
neural nets which will instantly select the publishable photos.
Hey, I'm not kidding. My master's project was an automated vision
processing system for quality control. So I know.

Mike Roberts

P.S. The thesis part is true.

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