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Subject: [Leica] Slightly OT: To Crop Or Not
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sat Feb 10 05:23:36 2007
References: <cb81b0b00702091127waa3fe70oe776030e9a8fb524@mail.gmail.com>

If you care about the most perfect result imagewise, do not hesitiate  
to crop, rework perspective, dodge, burn, tint, clone, erase, add, ...
If you're into the zen thing of getting it all right from the first  
time on, don't.
It's just a different mental state.
Do bear in mind though that most viewers do not think: is this all of  
the negative I'm seeing or not? They just react on what they see.
Unless you want to include a manual with every image you made.
And then the question rises: is it a good image when it needs  
explanation?

Philippe



Op 9-feb-07, om 20:27 heeft R S het volgende geschreven:

> Original photo taken with a Leica M3 and Summicron 50/2 so slightly  
> 'on'
> topic.
> After posting a cropping question on photo.net I asked myself 'when is
> cropping ok'?
> Who determines if there is a line to cross and in what circumstances
> (editorial vs personal appreciation of a photo).
> I summed up my ramblings here:
> http://silfver.blogspot.com/2007/02/to-crop-or-not.html
> and would be interested in others thoughts.
>
> Does the process matter - or is it just the final image that matters?
>
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Replies: Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George) ([Leica] Slightly OT: To Crop Or Not)
In reply to: Message from darkbulb at gmail.com (R S) ([Leica] Slightly OT: To Crop Or Not)