[Leica] My 6 weekly pictures

[Don Dory]

I would like to add to Sonny's comments on cropping.  The newer high
resolution sensors and the newer lens designs that can deliver detail at
those pixel pitch points allow incredible crops.  Then you have the new AI
interfaces that will believably create new pixels to increase the image
size for reproduction purposes.

I can imagine that the Leica Q4 with 100mp sensor and a 24mm lens will be
very attractive: I know I greatly enjoy the freedoms of 60mp and the new
lenses available.  Even the sorta lowly Sony 20mm produces stunning images
never mind what comes out of the 135 F1.8 or the 40mm F1.4 or...

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 8:10 AM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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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