The First Heartbreak
© Milan Cvetanovic
All rights reserved!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlD3eexJ5mk
Thank you for all the kind comments and favs on my opus so far, appreciate the support! Although I could write paragraphs about the background of every single candid I've taken, it would take a lot of time. I've decided to pause a little bit and share with you more about this particular candid with a cinematic plot.
A candid is not a sheer point-and-shoot capture, it has no worth unless it captures pristine, sincere emotions or a storyline. In my humble opinion, it is a much larger feeling of achievement if you catch a random, not posed dynamic second of human life, interaction frozen in time, than to take a studio/set up capture you have prepared for ages, with "emotion on demand" from your model(s).
It was a scorching day in Krakow and some inner city parents as an optimal solution for a chill-off for their kids have opted for one of the fountains around the Market Square instead of pools/water parks. The festival of street performers was going on in Krakow during those days and I was returning home from the Main Square from documenting the event. I was already saturated with the vibrant events and frames I took earlier that day, but decided to capture an additional snap or two more with the hope of catching a storytelling pic. And here it is, a perfect capture for a superimposed storyline, behavioral analysis.
The boy with the red cap stumbles upon his crush from daycare having fun with his nemesis, the boy with the blue hat, who doesn't treats her with respect, staring at her impolitely. This scene and revelation fills the red cap boy with frustration, disappointment and rage in seconds, his right hand subconsciously goes into fist mode, his diaper goes full from the stress.
What happened a second before and a second after is not relevant to us, all that matters is this very second, where the constellations of the subjects was perfect for a successful candid.
The First Heartbreak
© Milan Cvetanovic
All rights reserved!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlD3eexJ5mk
Thank you for all the kind comments and favs on my opus so far, appreciate the support! Although I could write paragraphs about the background of every single candid I've taken, it would take a lot of time. I've decided to pause a little bit and share with you more about this particular candid with a cinematic plot.
A candid is not a sheer point-and-shoot capture, it has no worth unless it captures pristine, sincere emotions or a storyline. In my humble opinion, it is a much larger feeling of achievement if you catch a random, not posed dynamic second of human life, interaction frozen in time, than to take a studio/set up capture you have prepared for ages, with "emotion on demand" from your model(s).
It was a scorching day in Krakow and some inner city parents as an optimal solution for a chill-off for their kids have opted for one of the fountains around the Market Square instead of pools/water parks. The festival of street performers was going on in Krakow during those days and I was returning home from the Main Square from documenting the event. I was already saturated with the vibrant events and frames I took earlier that day, but decided to capture an additional snap or two more with the hope of catching a storytelling pic. And here it is, a perfect capture for a superimposed storyline, behavioral analysis.
The boy with the red cap stumbles upon his crush from daycare having fun with his nemesis, the boy with the blue hat, who doesn't treats her with respect, staring at her impolitely. This scene and revelation fills the red cap boy with frustration, disappointment and rage in seconds, his right hand subconsciously goes into fist mode, his diaper goes full from the stress.
What happened a second before and a second after is not relevant to us, all that matters is this very second, where the constellations of the subjects was perfect for a successful candid.