RickH Loc: Toronto, Canada

I'm not a sports photographer, but this article was fascinating and made me think about my street work. Highly recommend it

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/an-olympic-feat-seeing-pictures-before-they-happen/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

cabunit Loc: SE Connecticut

How true, and how many have I seen with my own eyes, as he says, but missed in-camera. If I could go back.... :)

Komododragonman

I really liked his last comment that if you see the picture then your too late. I have read that the really good photographers already know what they are looking for and position themselves for that shot and are ready for it. Great article, thanks for sharing the link!

Kuzano

Seeing things before they happen is called "Clairvoyance" and there is a couple act on America's Got Talent right now who may win the GP... a million dollars and a Las Vegas show with their talent. Incredible display.

I've never seen one of my pictures before I took it and processed it and displayed it in a print or on a monitor.

But in spite of that, many of them have been "good enough" afterward to keep them, and in some cases even hang them. If I waited until after I saw the shot to capture it, I would have put down all the camera's a long time ago.

But about that act on AGT... Wow, I'd love to be able to do that. I wouldn't waste any of the Million dollars on photo gear, because I could see the images without taking them!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Good article. About the top photo with the runner's arms extended - Even blind runners, people who have never seen a winner raise his arms, do that when they win or even cross the finish line. Apparently, it's a human thing, rather than an imitation of something runners have seen.

James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

The "Seeing of Photos Before they happen" .... Ah - Yes! "The Deceive Moment".... Where the photographer - through long practice of the observation of people - may anticipate just as to the WHEN to open the shutter. One of the "Great" masters of this practice was - of course - Henri Cartier-Bresson. I might say that almost every "Street Photographer" can achieve this talent. It just takes time and watching people.

Good article here.
Thanks for the posting.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Your answer shows your amateurism and lack of understanding.

A professional anything anticipate events or actions before taking them in order to do anything from surgery to photography. Same as athlete concentrating on the challenge ahead of them, visualizing their effort.

One has to know, predict difficulties, find the solution. This is not 'clairvoyance' but 'training'.

A photographer trains his/her eye depending on his/her field of photography. He 'see' before capturing anything. That you seem to ignore this is telling. PP is something else and is possible only if the capture taken at the right moment makes it possible.