RE: [Leica] Cropping

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

The reason I suggested the crop was that I realized in looking at it
that I, too, wasn't seeing that extraneous material - or didn't want to
see it; I was seeing what's in the crop.

The irony, of course, is that I have long railed here against cropping,
and try my damndest not to crop. But clearly there are times when the
image demands it...That image I posted today is at best 20 % of the
original frame...

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel
Ridings
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 3:17 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Cropping


I remember looking at his crop and thinking: "Yes, that's my picture,
the way I remember it."

I had to actually go back and look at the original to see the extraneous
material that was taken away. It (the removed areas) wasn't anything
that had left an impression in my mind.

When I worked for a newspaper people were cropping my stuff all the
time. A lot of times just to fit into the column-space and the reasons
for cropping didn't have anything to do with the shot. This was
different.

Daniel



On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, RUBEN BLĘDEL wrote:

> Daniel
>
> I think BDs got it right too,  especially as non of what he cropped 
> away gave a clue that it was Dar es Salam -  the best thing thoug is 
> that a very nice picture just turned even better
>
> Ruben
>
> Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
> >I'm one of those who (probably out of laziness in my case) don't crop

> >much. Funny ... when it counts (when I'm delivering a shot to someone
> >paying) I do. But hardly ever (well never) in my PaWs.
> >
> >BD sent me a nice crop of the water picture. I'm going to have to 
> >take cropping seriously.
> >
> >BD's crop:
> >
> >http://folk.uio.no/danielr/images/v34-0005-51349crop.jpg
> >
> >The original:
> >
> >http://www.leica-gallery.net/dlridings/image-51349.html
> >
> >The crop is better. I'm posting this as an example of constructive 
> >criticism this group is capable of. Sometimes that gets questioned. 
> >Despite all our off topic rants, there are some real pros here.
> >
> >The original was taken with a 35mm lens. If I had used the 50, it 
> >would have almost equalled the crop. My non-resolution ambition to 
> >get to know the 50 better this year in my PAWs seems like a good 
> >idea.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Daniel
> >
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