Capturing the Moment: L'essenza della fotografia

by Michael Freeman, Simona Deho (Traduttrice)

This is not a book about the fundamentals of shutter speed or how your camera works; it is a book that will teach photographers of all levels how to work with their cameras to capture moments whether they are occurring quickly or unfolding over many hours. Capturing the Moment is about a gesture, an expression, a ball in the net, a whale breaching, like Marilyn Monroe’s skirt flying up or Alfred Eisenstaedt’s image of a kiss between a soldier and nurse in Times Square. Moments in all forms are the true core of photography, and this book will explain how to anticipate them, recognise them, choose them, and capture them, through the eyes and wisdom of award-winning photographer and celebrated author Michael Freeman.

Genres: Photography

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2014

About the author

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Michael Freeman is a professional photographer and author. He wrote more than 100 book titles. He was born in England in 1945, took a Masters in geography at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and then worked in advertising in London for six years. He made the break from there in 1971 to travel up the Amazon with two secondhand cameras, and when Time-Life used many of the pictures extensively in the Amazon volume of their World's Wild Places series, including the cover, they encouraged him to begin a full-time photographic career.

Since then, working for editorial clients that include all the world's major magazines, and notably the Smithsonian Magazine (with which he has had a 30-year association, shooting more than 40 stories), Freeman's reputation has resulted in more than 100 books published. Of these, he is author as well as photographer, and they include more than 40 books on the practice of photography - for this photographic educational work he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture. He is also responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK's Open College of the Arts.

Reviews

[Dolf van der Haven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting to learn about what makes a perfect moment to take a photograph of, useful for more advanced photographers.

[Kathleen Messmer · Rating 4 out of 5]

The idea of "moment" in photography is one that most photographers find elusive at best and disastrous at worst. This book does a pretty good job of explaining why it's important to choose your moments selectively rather than hosing the scene with so many shots that at the end of the day, the editing process is arduous. It's about being particular and patient. Read it.

[Unique KSA · Rating 3 out of 5]

*The very essence of any Photographic piece is Moment!
*To be professional at capturing the moment, you have to plan forward, to anticipate the moment.
*More often you have to wait, order to capture the right moment.
*If you saw an amazing background/scene like a colorful wall, graffiti painting, building...etc, just wait for the right moment- wait for a person /passerby to enter the sence.
simply this book taught me a lot about the difference between portrait and street/documentary photography. Your target is to capture people in action. The action will add a story to your photo. Action can be such, doing everyday life routines, fishing, farming, cooking. Action can extend to posuture and geture: human-being facial expressions and body language.



Bottom line: capture people in action.