Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/14/02 3:07 AM, Arne Helme at Arne.Helme@stelvio.nl wrote: > I shoot a lot of slide film with the intention to project slides. > The slide is then the end result and cropping is not much of an option. Very true. > When > scanning slides there is the additional advantage of cropping. However, in my > mind set it does not seem right to do so. I can kind of see this but what if you have a great landscape with a horizon thatıs off? Would you not straighten it and make a print for yourself or rather just not use it at all...? > I am so focused on the entire frame > that cropping is not really an option. As a learning process this might be a good idea as you'll always be reminded of how you really made the shot but it will limit your end results. > In fact, all photos on my web site are > full frame uncropped photos. I like to think of it as publishing the > potential of a photo, and not a final picture. When will you make the final pictures for yourself and us :) or will you ever since you said cropping is not really an option...? > Arne's PAW #2 2002 with the now famous ashtray that started this thread > represents my interpretation of the scene at the time I took the photo. Many > of you LUG photographers are much more experienced than I am, and would have > interpreted the scene very differently, and probably much better too. PAW #2 > simply represents my best shot at it. I wonder how much someone else shooting it would have made a difference? You had a 28mm on the camera, saw the expression you liked, & shot it. I'm sure it happened quickly as I think you said before. It was there then was gone. Maybe a different lens would have made a 'better shot' but there was no time for messing with that and you used what you had in hand. > So, should I crop, or should I have made a different composition when the > photo was taken? Well, I am not into time traveling. Therefore, cropping is > the viable option if I want to improve on the initial composition. Lessons > have been learned here :-)! And this is the whole point of shooting, posting, and asking for feedback :) The posting full frame might get you more 'cropping critisizm' BUT you might learn faster than the rest of us to shoot with 100% of that small 24x36 neg for a better final image... I HATE cropping for that reason... - -- John Chicago, IL http://SlideOne.com ==================== - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html