The Photographer's Eye: Graphic Guide

MID-AIR

In Chapter 2 there was a special kind of framing that I called “Just.” There’s an equivalent in the world of photographing action, and it’s all about precision timing and knowing the exact position of a subject that’s on its way through the air. I’ve always thought there are two good possible moments in a trajectory. One is when the thing is just about to reach its destination (an object crashing to the ground, for example), and the other is the “still point.” They work in different ways, but they both share the mid-air idea. The first of these happens often, and to show its variety, rather than the more predictable vase-about-to-shatter-as-it-falls I’m showing a piece of food on its upward journey to a mouth. Well, if you chose to do ...