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Bill Brandt

Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Bill Brandt

Patience

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Bill Brandt is saying that some photographic moments happen by chance and cannot be planned or predicted by the photographer. Other times, capturing the right shot requires waiting patiently for a certain scene or effect to occur again or to appear as expected.

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