Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/10

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Subject: [Leica] Slightly OT: To Crop Or Not
From: rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Sat Feb 10 16:52:08 2007
References: <200702102349.l1ANmRGN070516@server1.waverley.reid.org>
 
On 9 Feb 07 SonC wrote:

> I don't get the idea that you are frozen in time at the moment of exposure 
>  
> with whatever camera or lens is mounted there.  It is clear that people 
> who  
> have an aversion to cropping never had a photo editor attack their  
> pictures.
>  
> When we take a picture we are engaging in an advanced form of  pointing.  
>  
> If what you see is distant, and you have only a 35 mm lens on your leica;  
> then if you fail to crop, you fail to show what you have seen.  Simple as  
> that. 
>  If you consider that your photography is communication, and you  don't 
> let 
> someone see what you want them to see, then you might as well not have  
> made 
> the picture.

I think Sonny is exactly right. I could not agree more.

--Bob