How to capture the shot
True or false: good photographers nail it first time?
Before you answer, take a look at this photograph by Dorothea Lange, taken during the extreme hardships of America’s Great Depression.
Just look at that deeply preoccupied gaze. The turned heads of the children. That delicately placed hand and that strong vertical forearm. This image has an intensity that makes it totally compelling.
Migrant Mother is the iconic finale to a few other, not so amazing, photographs. But if Lange hadn’t taken those other shots, she’d never have captured this one.
When shooting, give yourself time and keep probing. Often the act of taking ...
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