Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Liam, My two cents worth. There are exactly two kinds of images....good ones and bad ones. I can't wait to hear what bd has to say about "The purity of the moment captured in the view finder." It's not an arguement which works for me. All someone looking at one of your images knows about is the picture in front of them. I doubt they either know or care what you saw in the view finder. Sorry to be harsh. I prefer to crop in the view finder when I can, and I prefer to avoid cropping when possible. The reason is that cropping degrades the technical quality of the image. You are, in effect. using a smaller negative and enlarging it more. This, IMHO, gets to be a real issue real fast with digital. Everyone has to "save" an image on the easel or in photoshop from time, but I don't kid myself aout what I am doing when this happens. It means that I was a step closer to failure than I really want to be. Having said that there are times and circumstances when you just can't crop in the viewfinder. Given a choice between no picture and one which was cropped either on the physical or the virtual easel, I crop. I try to keep the advice attributed to Robert Capra in mind. "If your pictures aren't good enough you probably aren't close enough." That sometimes means cropping. Barney But, having said that Liam Maloney wrote: > I confess - I hate cropping my photos. In fact, I > almost never do it. I know, I know, I'll never make it > as a photographer if I don't crop - I just don't like > doing it. I have this idea that cropping somehow takes > away from the purity of the moment I captured in the > viewfinder. More sensible people would look at my work > and find a way to crop (and improve)every single image > in my portfolio. But I argue that a good photographer > learns to get better by printing full frame. > > Anyone else feel this way? > > FWIW, I haven't decided which version of Steve's ICU > photo I like better. Full frame as a part of a picture > story, cropped as a single image, I think. Nice work. > > -Liam > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html