[Leica] My 6 weekly pictures

Wed May 29 03:33:03 PDT 2024

Hi Jayanand, my friend

I completely understand your arguments and even I share that technolgy would hep us to obtain better images, but this is not my target, I conceive photography as a craftsmanship and I like to take a photo from start to finish, which is why I make very limited use of cropping and have no interest in AI. A few days ago I was talking to a friend who writes photographic reviews and he told me that I'm like a Diplodocus.... Ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!

Cheers!
Lluis

> El 28 maig 2024, a les 7:29, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
> 
> The only reason that I use cameras with 45MP sensors is that it gives me
> the latitude to crop and eschew carrying 600/800mm behemoths altogether.
> Besides, I can switch to DX mode with the press of a button with a narrower
> angle of view to compose/track with, and still get 20MP images. I do not
> otherwise need 45MP for anything I need to do with any image.
> 
> We just need to choose our tools carefully to suit our needs.
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 9:56 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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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>> Don
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