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What Makes a Great Picture? | National Geographic


the great pictures just stop time they
they capture something that did not
continue it just wasn’t then and that
was the perfect moment it wasn’t a
moment before if it was that moment
we’re looking through these pictures
we’re clicking through yeah yeah I’ve
seen that before I’ve seen that before
then this is frog and crystals like
we’ve never seen that before how could
you have seen that before it’s the
composition – it’s the inclusion of
those three legs on the right the red
heart of the Frog yeah it’s like you see
right and then that cord going down like
each of those elements is necessary to
make that composition as beautiful as it
is that’s true you could give me a page
to read on this never never believe why
how this photographer happened to have
his camera at this moment that is magic
and who would ever know that bird
activity would involve that thing open
that one down by its tongue
photographers can spend their life
trying to photograph clickers and
woodpeckers never come across that
moment of one bird catching the other
birth by the top yeah it’s just that’s
like just one in a bazillion soldiers
breakdancing and all his friends are
gathered around and if you keep you look
close into their expression God
everyone’s like oh no that is sick I
mean they got these huge smiles in there
their eyes are closed because they’re
smiling somewhat and this is this great
moment of soldiers Eddie’s do get a lot
of black and white and this is perfect
of this one because the emphasis is on
the emotion between these two people the
defiance of the child of course is just
captured it’s like crosses all languages
all ages I mean who hasn’t been
that kid you know now I’m not gonna do
that
listen here looking at these caribou
deter totally freaked out there’s his
giant truck roaring across the landscape
in the snow in the winter
why was this photographer out there busy
of a telephoto lens I was and you know
he’s about to get trampled by these
caribou who were about to get trampled
by this truck and why any of the
elements of the scene putting the
photographer in this point ethic I just
I will never know and I will continue to
look at that picture in one I have seen
it so many times but I continue to love
it it’s just it’s perfect more than the
hair is blowing the lips are perfectly
beautiful anyone would love to look at
those lips and it’s perfect if we don’t
need to see her eyes it’s not about the
eyes it’s about the lips and the
crayfish this picture inspires wonder at
the empathy of these animals for one of
their own but at the same time it
crushes you emotionally you can see it’s
just a moment his foot is just moving
past they’re just moving through and the
person on the right holding gently
holding the face as if she must have
known that I want to say and he’s
swaddled
Wilbur oh yeah it’s the combination of
all the elements that make you stay
inside the frame you just keep whirling
around in the frame the entire
activities right smack in that frame
god what a composition is to dress
perfect light perfect action right peak
action it all comes down that tongue to
know it just comes down that one little
thing what would they do it with their
camera and the four clay in there and
I’ll tell you what they were doing I
think this is in Hawaii and they’re
sitting around like having a mai tai in
their lemon meringue pie and put down
the fork and staring off at the water Oh
wasn’t that nice yeah well there’s a
gecko in my pie get me game round thank
you yes that’s how it happens
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