[Leica] My 6 weekly pictures

[Lluis Ripoll]

I think that the most important thing in art is the freedim of every artist, no rules, everyone has his own rules. Remember W.E. Smith “If I have not wrote the rules why shall I follow them”
Lluis


> El 27 maig 2024, a les 15:10, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
> 
> 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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