Decisive Moments

If you like photography you will surely get something very good out of this conversation with Rob Johnson. Our conversation covers photography subjects such as, decisive moment, street photography, and  abstraction to name a few. I hope you will find something in this conversation for your photography.

podcast topics
music and improvisation
  1. Patrick Moraz,
  2. Yes Relayer,
  3. Rick Wakreman,
  4. The Gates of Delirium, retirement
Thoughts on retirement
Photography and Cypress College
  • Greg Zajack,
  • making a photograph blindfolded
  • lighting techniques,
  • poker, “a tell”,
  • blindfolded photographer prompt
  • “as a photographer you make pictures in response not just to what you see”
  • Jerry Winograd,
  • Cartier Bresson
  • “they are so in tune with the machine they don’t really need to look into it”
  • The Legacy Project,
  • decisive moments
  • “all of a sudden I started just seeing things that were about to happen”
  • street photography
  • film digital transition
  • 4/5 view camera
  • Magnum
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • Garry Winogrand
  • journalism photography
  • unassuming photograph approach
  • 8/10 view camera
  • Edward Weston
  • Acquiring a photographers eye
  • looking at things many different ways
  • Group f/64
  • abstraction
  • “Abstraction deals with how things are arranged within the rectangle”
  • “a person doesn’t have to be a person they can be a shape within the composition”
  • “I think photographers all want to go well whats that, what is that, were all locked into that somehow”
  • Brett Weston
  • “if pictures create questions in your mind you will look at them longer and you will become more involved in them”
  • Black and White photography
  • Color Theory
Color Photography

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