P3D Shocking

[roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John W Roberts)]

>Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:29:15 -0600
>From: Natasa Savic <092363@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 2886

>Hi, i was just wanting to know why do photographers always get such 
>shocking photos of people playing sport. I mean you look at a footy 
>player and he looks shocking and really ugly.

By "footy" do you mean soccer, or Australian-rules football? If the latter,
I suspect that a photo taken at any randomly selected instant during the game
is likely to appear shocking. :-)  :-)  :-)

But seriously, I expect the reason that sports photos are dramatic is because
those are the kind that sports photographers are trained to take, and those
are the ones that sell for high prices and win awards.

Another factor is that the most dramatic photos are usually taken at an
instant of intense effort and concentration on the part of the subject.
The person might well have a shocking expression for a fraction of a second,
and while you might miss that in real life or on video, a still camera
captures that instant of time, isolated from whatever came before and after.

(Frozen motion can be expecially dramatic in 3D, to get this back to a
3D topic. :-)

John R


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