We're seeing different perspectives here. I think Rob sees himself as a descendant of the old-style portrait artist, who built up a relationship with his "sitter", while creating the "pose". The sitter is well aware of the image rendered, the image is not just "caught" by the painter, but uniquely crafted as a collaboration. In a way this is not true of continuous capture where the talent is directed and "throws"a sequence of movements and expressions up in the air and the photographer later "catches" the moment while sitting in front of the cutting room monitor, just as he could choose to catch one card of a pack thrown by a stage magician.
It's late, those pix J posted are interesting. We should all post more pix.
My own pix above are "amateur" pictures, posted and retouched for fun not for hire, but they are extracted from a video job I did, where I did the lighting and directing and some of the cinematography. It's interesting how the labels flip from one side to the other - the outtakes from the pro time-constrained pressure cooker becomes art. Maybe that is why collectors love original movie set and movie marketing pictures.
Edmund
I think people confuse high frame rates as not crafting an image. Spray and pray, no, it's craft the image first then capture it the way you want.
All our work turns into multimedia. Sometimes for effect, sometimes for cut frame video, sometimes because there is that milisecond where the subjects just do something unexpected. How many times have you shot an image with a slow camera and then while rewinding or waiting to buffer, the subject(s) just do something amazing and you push the button and no go?
I'm not saying to shoot a staged portrait that doesn't have much movement at 15 fps, but short bursts can open a world of looks you just wouldn't capture any other way.
I'm also not saying to not aim for the decisive moment, or shoot without a plan or style. I'm just saying don't limit yourself to that single frame when you photograph living breathing subjects.
We do a lot of multimedia work like this that goes for print, web, stills, motion, cut frame motion, sequential stills, mixed with cinema camera motion.
This isn't a final edit, just and overview but it works and it isn't spray and play.
All of the still imagery is with a 1dx, shot in bursts, processed in lightroom and only a few images ever went into photoshop, I just set a preset, a crop and let it go.
But to think it's not crafted is not the plan and I'm not praying we got it. I'm usually pretty sure we got it.
IMO
BC
