Anticipating the Right Place at the Right Time, or Luck?

[ClaremontPhoto]

This morning.

The location was right, and the light was right.

But there was a big white van in the way.

Then the van moved. Although the location looked a little missing something.

An old man arrived on an old bicycle and left it in the location I was watching and went off on his errands.

Interesting...

Then another old guy came and parked his old bicycle in just the right position behind the first one.

I took the photo.

Both guys came back soon after, and another white van parked just where the photogenic bicycles had been.

Two hours waiting and hoping, and 1/250 of photography.

Does this count as a decisive moment?

 

[Pherdinand]

The moment, maybe.
But we have to see the shot to decide if the shot captured a decisive moment or not.🙂

 

[Roger Hicks]

Luck.

But you make your own luck...

What's the weather like in the Alentejo at the moment?

Cheers,

R.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

The film is at the lab right now.

The weather is clear blue skies all day every day, but I need a jumper in the evening.

I did some 'blue field' photos yesterday. Just plain blue sky edge to edge, and I'll look at them this weekend. And decide on reshoot or not.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Here's a photo:

 

[FrankS]

Any photo we take where we aren't positioning props and directing models is based on luck and what we happen to come across. However, luck favours the prepared (with an idea). And those prepared to wait.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Today I went to a photogenic street place and sat nice and quiet on a chair at a pavement cafe.

The light was right, and the background was right too. All I needed was the actors or props to appear. What I was waiting for was a guy walking ten dogs, or a leggy girl in a miniskirt, or a guy pushing a cart full of apples up the hill.

Another person appeared with a camera (very rare here) and took one photo, the obvious photo, and walked on.

I stayed and saw my photo opportunity about an hour later.