Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Sonny - Yes and no...to what you said. ;-). If course cropping is just a tool - see my just posted typically pedantic overly long post - and has many valid uses. But it is also an often overused crutch on which far too many lazy photographers rely. Point and Shoot - and then see later if cropping will give you a good photograph. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of SonC (Sonny Carter) Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 12:48 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Re: To crop or not to crop The whole notion of refusing to crop is an idea that escapes me. I respect anyone's right to not crop, it is just that I see it as a normal part of the editing process. In fact, if you are taking a step forward or back, or changing lenses, you are making cropping decisions. If on the other hand you do the cropping in the scanning or darkroom phase, then it becomes only a matter of timing. You are still in the composing process, it is just at another time period. On still another hand, (assuming we have more than two hands available,) if you then turn your work over to an editor at a magazine or a newspaper, or an art director at an ad agency, you should be prepared, because unless you have done some cropping, they'll go at it with a vengence for you. We talk about shooting slides, but twenty years ago I was reshooting slides on my Honeywell Repronar so I could crop out unwanted elements. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html