[Leica] My 6 weekly pictures

[Sonny Carter]

May I pipe up about cropping?   It surely depends on your style of
shooting.  I usually am most interested in the moment over the composition,
and that even goes for shooting flowers.  I rarely shoot with a macro, more
often a wide to normal focal length. I almost never use a tripod, and
usually, images are made in the “wild” without any lighting or reflectors,
etc.

Probably my technique stems from a past life as a photojournalist.  Thus, I
shoot only a few images an outing, much like I did when using film.   The
upshot is that I still am pretty choosy about what I show, so I end up
often heavily cropping without shame.  It all comes from the concept that I
am showing you what I see; “Look!”  or to express it in biblical terms,
“Behold!”




Regards,
Sonny
www.SonC.Com/Look



On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 5:11 AM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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
> > amagayneroshak at gmail.com
> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>
> >
> > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
> > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
> >
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