Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Matt Kollasch wrote & showed: >>> One more from my recent trip... now back to photo life on the home > front. > http://www.uni.edu/kollasch/photo/paw-02/pages/week-08.htm << Hi Matt, Big improvement with a tad bit of cropping. ;-) Well done and a stronger picture. Don't worry too much about your confidence in doing the right cropping when you crop or worrying whether you've made the right move or not, just do it and if it doesn't work, turf it, re-do it! :-) Some times we make a crop and at first look it's "wow that's great! Ten looks later you turf it and go back to the original. One of the good things about computers/Photoshop is cropping doesn't entail a half dozen or more wet tray prints for comparison. The overall appearance in your shot is much better getting rid of the Space Needle that had been on the right. Occasionally photographers feel there isn't any need to crop "because that's what they saw and that's what people get" is a kind of thing that some photographer's/artist's feel their images are so well executed they are above reproach/improvement as they saw it and shot it. In many cases they're dead wrong! (I already know the return fire on that one!) ;-) And your picture of moving objects leads to all kinds of... "if you were here, there, lower, higher, etc. etc. it would've been better." Actually sometimes mean nothing if it's a "moving subject such as the skulls" and there isn't any thought about the "moving part." If it's rocks, ferns and peeling paint, hell you can shoot until the cows come home and make all kinds of "no need to crop pictures" The rocks and bits aren't going anywhere. Moving things move and you don't always hit it right on the mark therefore..........cropping is necessary to make the picture the way you would like to have shot it! I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of photographs couldn't be improved by "after thought" like a Monday morning quarterback with cropping or whatever. Yep and some are so well executed even the Good Guy upstairs couldn't improve them. ;-) But don't be bamboozled by the "never crop" crowd it only works in extremely rare situations. Cropping is the same as the motivation to shoot, "you feel the moment to shoot, so do you the cropping!" You're still in the learning curve my friend and doing a great job at what you're producing, keep 'em coming! :-) ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html