Decisive Moments

For my decisive moment photography we first looked at three famous decisive moment photographers; Robert Capa, Tony Vaccaro & Henri Cartier Bresson and their works. what made their shots great was that whatever was in the shot could only be shot once: E.g Death of a Loyalist Militiaman. Whatever was in the image was animated and was in the perfect position for a second.

My shots needed to be somewhere that had lots of energy and motion, so I chose to go to Crawley Skate Park. I asked several skaters if I could capture them and they said yes.

I felt like I needed shots of three different skating stances; the first a Drop in, with the board's nose in the air i felt that this shot had a great effect of decisiveness with great natural light.

The second I chose to show a stall, a gymnast plant is a trick that can only last a second so capturing it at optimal height is very difficult. The skater is dead centre of the picture with great natural light.

The third picture had to be an air shot. I chose to capture my actor midair, I had to be quick with my shot before gravity took effect.