Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In message <002101c19c69$5e9ef760$0b01a8c0@sander>, "Sander van Hulsenbeek" writes: [...] > >Arme, I think you are absolutely right to submit you pictures as you took >them. If you had wanted to crop, you would have taken one, or two, steps >forward. I am sure of that. Or have taken an orther picture! So good for >you, submit them as they are! > Sander, just as you, I shoot a lot of slide film with the intention to project slides. The slide is then the end result and cropping is not much of an option. When scanning slides there is the additional advantage of cropping. However, in my mind set it does not seem right to do so. I am so focused on the entire frame that cropping is not really an option. In fact, all photos on my web site are full frame uncropped photos. I like to think of it as publishing the potential of a photo, and not a final picture. Arne's PAW #2 2002 with the now famous ashtray that started this thread represents my interpretation of the scene at the time I took the photo. Many of you LUG photographers are much more experienced than I am, and would have interpreted the scene very differently, and probably much better too. PAW #2 simply represents my best shot at it. So, should I crop, or should I have made a different composition when the photo was taken? Well, I am not into time traveling. Therefore, cropping is the viable option if I want to improve on the initial composition. Lessons have been learned here :-)! - -- Arne Arne Helme Email: Arne.Helme at stelvio.nl (^" at "^@) Work: +31-33-4697340, Fax: +31-33-4697341, GSM: +31-620135827 M&I/Stelvio bv, Zonnehof 41, 3811 ND Amersfoort, the Netherlands - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html