P&P: Exercise 10: Capturing the Moment

This exercises seems to be intended to help students consider what has long been known in photography as "the decisive moment," that instant where something unusually expressive is captured with the opening and closing of the camera shutter.  To get good at this takes years of practice and the development of technical skills as well as the ability to read people and situations, to anticipate opportunities to deploy one's technical mastery.

As a Level One course, no one is expecting work at the level of Cartier-Bresson or Joel Meyerowitz.  I've done a fair share of street shooting, much of it mediocre and on display here. For the purpose of this exercise, I examine a sequence shot at the Dubai Fish market in burst mode, resulting in 12 images.  The task was in choosing one that had the most expressive features.

I chose image nine in the sequence and posted it to the article at larger size so it is easy to pick out.  (In the photo viewer it will appear as the same size as the others.)  The defining gesture here (and one that unfortunately came out blurred on close inspection), is the clerk displaying his scallions. 

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