If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.
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The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.
If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.
It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.
I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
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