Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hear hear! JB At 11:17 AM 3/6/2005, Phong wrote: >I do not agree with B.D. and you. >Post-exposure cropping is an important tool and I do not >understand why some people are so adamant in not using it. > >Please understand that composition is extremely important >for my own photography. In many, many instances, the placement >of graphical elements in the image is what makes or breaks a photo >for me. So I am not cavalier about composition at all. >And yet there are many reasons why I prefer to crop. > >For one, Leica M framing is only so accurate. For another, >unless I shoot slides, (and even then !), the film is never the end >but an intermediate step toward the final product, whose >proportions may not be the same as the film. And there might be >reasons that I choose in advance to crop later (do not want to move >around too much as not to disturb the subject). Finally, there is >a lot of creativity in the post-exposure processings that I enjoy, >including cropping. > >I disagree with Sonny on his choice of words; I would call it >being unnecessarily dogmatic rather than laziness. > >Interestingly enough there are plenty of cooks, good and bad, >that are also unnecessary dogmatic about their methods. >It's just me, but I rather not be dogmatic about things like >to crop or not. > >Regards, > >- Phong