[Leica] GeeBee's staff - NOW Ted's crop

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Ted Grant wrote:
> Peter Dzwig showed:
> 
>> ...spotted taking themselves home, as the sun went down.
>> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/album177/GoingHome200512
>> > Leica IIIf 5cm Summarit Kodak BW400CN f11 1/200th<<<
> 
> 
> Hi Peter,
> Well done and an even better picture by taking a half inch of foreground 
> off! Increase the whole photograph impact and the line of cattle!
> 
> ted
> 
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Ted,

the wonderful thing about PS is that you can try all sorts of things and no, 
 I 
didn't PS the cows in (just get that in before anyone suggests it. I have 
cropped this picture every way.

In the end I felt that taking out more of the foreground made it too long 
and 
narrow, more so than it is now. True, that stressed the cows but....

http://gallery.leica-users.org/album177/GoingHome200512Crop

Several things:

I feel that the foreground gives it an additional feeling of depth. It is 
probably 150 yds up the track that they are taking and I wanted that sense 
of 
distance in the picture. To be honest I had already taken quite a bit out - 
as 
you can tell.

Cropping as tight in **most** cases doesn't seem appropriate for 35mm. I 
crop 
most shots - in the absence of a true telephoto on an RF it's the only thing 
to do.

I'd like to hear what you think of this version, now you've seen it - and 
I'd 
also be interested to hear what others have to say. Hence the change of 
title.

All the best,

Peter