[Leica] My 6 weekly pictures

[Lluis Ripoll]

Jayanand, Alan

Thank you verymuch for your advices, It is true, I do not use much care with the images digitized with the scanner, this instrument enhances the smallest details of the negatives that are totally invisible in the enlarger when making a wet copy, which for me is what counts. A few days ago I had a negative with countless white dots, I immediately made a 9.5x12" copy in my darkroom, it turned out completely clean, so digitization for me is just a reference, I had stopped making a contact sheet and I'm going to do it again because it teaches you how the copy will turn out and also about the exposure values in relation to development. The digitized photo allows greater correctable tolerance when editing, a negative requires greater accuracy. Thanks anyway and I will try to take more care in some details such as the margins.

Regarding the shot, it is difficult to reach the so-called decisive moment, on many occasions you have to choose whether to take the photo at that moment or lose the image completely, I try to preserve the image despite imperfections.

Regarding cropping, I think it is an old discussion, in general I don't like to practice big cropping, only small adjustments. There is a great influence between what the photographer has seen when taking the image and what has awakened his emotion and what the viewer sees. It is very important to me to be as close as possible to the image initially seen, which is what motivated me to take the photo, and a cropped image does not always reflect what subjectively caught my attention. Another thing is different if that image It may have seemed interesting to me, it is actually a mistake.

Thank you again for your constructive comments that raise great topics of discussion that it is not easy for me to follow in a language that is not my own and that I need to use an automatic translator.

Cheers
Lluis


> El 27 maig 2024, a les 5:59, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
> 
> On Mon, 27 May 2024 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> These are nice, but a few are spoiled, IMHO, by extraneous objects
>> intruding on the margins. I would think that  either cropping the frame, or
>> them and cleaning them up would work wonders, after which you
>> can always print out a digital negative for darkroom printing. Airbrushing
>> has been a staple of the photographer's toolkit since the dawn of Ansel
>> Adams, so there is no need to wring one's hands at the faithlessness of it
>> all! :-)
> 
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
> ====================================================================
> I totally agree.  Lluis, you take wonderful pictures, but sometimes the
> moment happens
> before all is sorted out. One thing I stressed when I taught a continuing
> education course
> was (as much as possible) check the edges of the frame before tripping the
> shutter, but
> there was no shame in cropping.
> 
> -- 
> Alan
> 
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
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> 
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> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
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