Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] Photography IS editing.
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:27:22 -0500
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2010-02-16-19:11:25 Lawrence Zeitlin:
> Photography IS editing.  Life passes before us continually.  We choose
> to select 1/100 sec. snippets of that life in our photographs.
[...]
> But given most photographers liberal bias for inclusion, post editing
> is also required.  Unless we take pictures only for ourself we must
> reduce our mass of photographs to a number that an audience will have
> the patience to view.

What you said.  I was planning to write something very like this, but
then saw that you'd already done it.  So I just repeat it.  (Edited.) :-)

 -Jeff
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Photography IS editing.)