To me, it means I was capturing what was going on around me on the street in Pondicherry, with all the things I saw and felt in my mind as I pressed the shutter release three times in quick succession, as we got closer. There wasn’t really any time to “aim”, just enough to make sure I captured everything I noticed within the frame, as we drove through and continued on our way.
If you open the original file, it’s a mess, but it does include what I wanted.
There was no intention of taking a portrait, just capturing the scene.
When I got home, I edited the images, creating what I envisioned as I pressed the shutter release.
Now, what I’m wondering about as I’m writing this, is the image more or less “powerful” when it is cropped as Joanna demonstrated. I understand she may very well be right, and the cropped version is better from being simplified without the “stuff” I included.
When I capture an image, I have an initial idea of what it’s probably going to look like. But the purpose of the image was “a slice of life”, not “a portrait”. So, for now, I’m stuck. I’ll think about this for a few days, and maybe change my mind.
Here’s another image captured ten minutes later. I got exactly the result I wanted, but by Joanna’s reasoning, maybe this image is too complicated and confusing? I did get what I wanted, and again, there was no time to think, only to “do”, as my car was moving through the scene, and I waited until all the bits and pieces fitted together, then took the image. Given time, and had I been standing there, the image would most likely look very different, maybe simplified. I didn’t want the motorbike in the image, but I had no choice.
