[Leica] Sidewalk washer (how to crop?)

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Peter

FWIW I would go with the tight crop.

But as I learnt a few weeks back with my "Going Home"
( http://gallery.leica-users.org/album177 )and cropping that, and the long 
discussions with Ted and others that I had about it, it really does depend 
on 
you and how you see the picture.

For example if you didn't preview it with the LUgers in - then don't be 
afraid 
to take them out. Cropping Going Home, I had a view in the moment that I 
took it 
that the others hadn't seen . Interestingly my kids who were there preferred 
the 
one that I chose.

NOW if you want to go for "the image" then you have to think about the photo 
as 
it appears on screen as an entity with its own compositional values, rather 
than 
simply what you "saw".

So you can play it either way have it as you saw it and wanted it - or as 
the 
picture others might want to see. That is the question, as Hamlet might say.

Anyway who cares about the rear ends of a group of LUGers ;-)  -  except 
themselves!

Peter Dzwig



Peter Klein wrote:

> I got the second roll of film from the LHSA San Francisco meeting back a 
> couple of weeks ago.  I really like this picture, and am of two minds 
> about how to crop it.  It was a grab shot on the street with a 35mm 
> Summicron.  You may recognize the rear ends of three well-known LHSA 
> members in the background.   :-)
> 
> I find the tighter crop funnier, and the looser crop a showing a bit 
> more context.  Can't decide which is "better."  Almost every 
> non-photographer I've asked is just as torn as I am, with a slight 
> preference for the looser crop.
> 
> Here's the original frame, no cropping:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/E007HoseFullFrame
> 
> Here's the looser crop:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/E007HoseCropLoose
> 
> And the tighter crop:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album186/E007HoseCropTight
> 
> Whatcha think?
> 
> M6TTL, 35mm Summicron, and Neopan 400.  Low-res scan from Ivey, a local 
> pro-lab.  I'll probably rescan this myself to print it eventually.  I 
> cropped to the proportions of 8.5 x 11 inches, 'cause that's my normal 
> big-print size, but I'm not religiously wedded to those proportions.
> 
> --Peter
> 
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