{"id":1358,"date":"2018-01-11T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/EYV-blog\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2018-08-05T16:47:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T15:47:40","slug":"assignment-3-the-decisive-moment-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/EYV-blog\/course-work\/part-3-traces-of-time\/project-3-what-matters-is-to-look\/assignment-3-the-decisive-moment-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 3 &#8211; The Decisive Moment &#8211; Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research into the concept of &#8216;the decisive moment&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GNVTxEaP9T\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/%e2%80%9chow-to-masterthe-decisive-moment%e2%80%9d\/\">How to Master \u201cThe Decisive Moment\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;How to Master \u201cThe Decisive Moment\u201d&#8221; &#8212; ERIC KIM\" src=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/%e2%80%9chow-to-masterthe-decisive-moment%e2%80%9d\/embed\/#?secret=DETrAJ3jH3#?secret=GNVTxEaP9T\" data-secret=\"GNVTxEaP9T\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric Kim <\/strong>says<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>that H C-B believed that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Decisive Moment\u201d was that split second of genius and inspiration that a photographer had to capture a certain moment<\/li>\n<li>You can never recreate the same circumstances in terms of location and people.<\/li>\n<li>You must constantly be looking for moments to capture,<\/li>\n<li>Once that moment is gone, it is gone forever<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sCI5cyYyuK\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/7-tips-how-to-capture-the-decisive-moment-in-street-photography\/\">7 Tips How to Capture &#8220;The Decisive Moment&#8221; in Street Photography<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;7 Tips How to Capture &#8220;The Decisive Moment&#8221; in Street Photography&#8221; &#8212; ERIC KIM\" src=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/7-tips-how-to-capture-the-decisive-moment-in-street-photography\/embed\/#?secret=5LHJsoeT3e#?secret=sCI5cyYyuK\" data-secret=\"sCI5cyYyuK\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is a &#8220;decisive moment&#8221; for you<\/li>\n<li>Follow your intuition<\/li>\n<li>Set it and forgetit<\/li>\n<li>Photograph what you&#8217;re afraid of<\/li>\n<li>Look for emotion and gestures<\/li>\n<li>What is personally-meaningful to you<\/li>\n<li>Work the scene<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2013\/08\/12\/the-decisive-moment-and-the-human-brain\/<\/p>\n<p>this is an interesting article from Petapixel, which explores the interactions between conscious (i.e., knowing) and unconscious (i.e., intuiting) awareness and how the brain works to link the two.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Extract from conversation on on student forum about a3 decisive moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discuss.oca-student.com\/t\/eyv-a3-decisive-moment-feedback-needed\/6483\">https:\/\/discuss.oca-student.com\/t\/eyv-a3-decisive-moment-feedback-needed\/6483<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comment by Clive White &#8211; OCA tutor:<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t want them to be just an extension of clich\u00e9 esthetics\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The decisive moment isn\u2019t an outdated Modernist conceit, it\u2019s an ever present appropriate strategy concerned with when you decided to press the shutter button. It\u2019s the second most important decision the photographer makes after framing.<\/p>\n<p>Some students seem to get the idea that they\u2019re supposed to critique it in some way as an outmoded idea by redefining it or that they\u2019re supposed to be critiquing the work of H. C-B.; as tutors we don\u2019t really understand why the section has been read like this but the assignment, along with the rest of EYV is being revised and I\u2019m contributing a case study from one of my students to help explain the concept and this assignment more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>You are encouraged to critique it in the sense that one can consciously produce indecisive or non-decisive moments but in order to do that one needs to understand what a decisive moment is, some people are jumping straight to the critique position with out properly understanding the concept of the decisive moment and a spurious motivation.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum requirement of this assignment is that the images should visually demonstrate the understanding of the concept without requiring any explanation or captioning when viewed by those familiar with the concept. It is not enough to say this is a decisive moment because I say it is. The image at the moment of capture should have a significance which is not extant at the moment before or the moment after.<\/p>\n<p>Once that\u2019s achieved the aspiration should be to make images which are not only decisive moments but to make them part of the natural progressive flow of one\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>Review the images you\u2019ve made and decide if they meet the base criteria, was the moment you\u2019ve chosen different in its resonance in any significant way from a moment before or after.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this really helps clarify what is needed from this assignment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it it NOT a critique of HC-B, but needs to demonstrate and understanding of the concept<\/li>\n<li>it should capture a moment in time that is different from the moment before and the moment after.<\/li>\n<li>the images should have aesthetic balance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also had a look at a couple of blogs suggested by the tutors which were held up as demonstrating the required response to the brief<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kateastoneyv.wordpress.com\/category\/assignments\/assignment-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Aston<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/weareoca.com\/subject\/film\/david-fletcher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Fletcher<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>two very different responses and very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research into the concept of &#8216;the decisive moment&#8217; How to Master \u201cThe Decisive Moment\u201d Eric Kim says&nbsp;that H C-B believed that: &#8220;The Decisive Moment\u201d was that split second of genius and inspiration that a photographer had to capture a certain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/EYV-blog\/course-work\/part-3-traces-of-time\/project-3-what-matters-is-to-look\/assignment-3-the-decisive-moment-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,20,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-3-the-decisive-moment","category-project-3-what-matters-is-to-look","category-research-and-reflection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tN7f-lU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1451,"url":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/EYV-blog\/assignments\/assignment-3-the-decisive-moment\/mind-whirring\/","url_meta":{"origin":1358,"position":0},"title":"Mind Whirring","author":"Debra Flynn","date":"26th January 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"At the moment, I have a number of ideas for Assignment 3 - The Decisive Moment, and was hoping to get out with my camera a start my set, but to be honest, I don't think I can.\u00a0 For the last assignment, I mapped out my thoughts and came up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Assignment 3: The decisive moment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Assignment 3: The decisive moment","link":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/EYV-blog\/category\/assignments\/assignment-3-the-decisive-moment\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1453,"url":"https:\/\/debraflynnphotography.co.uk\/EYV-blog\/research-and-reflection\/jo-teasdale\/","url_meta":{"origin":1358,"position":1},"title":"Jo Teasdale","author":"Debra Flynn","date":"28th January 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I was really motivated by Jo Teasdale's presentation at Brighton and Hove Camera Club on 23.01.18.\u00a0 She presented projects she is currently working on, one of which is \"Looking Forward, Turning Back\" series really inspired me. read more about:Jo Teasdale's; 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