Ok - I'm sending this post again, after everybody has already said what I
said 2 or 3 times.
Tom C.
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From: "aimcompute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: More on croppng (Was: An important step)
> Mike Johnston wrote:
>
> > Cropping certainly isn't a "horrible practice" but it's often an
> impediment
> > to seeing well. People who don't shoot very often (which I'd define as
> less
> > than, say, 150 rolls a year) get an attitude of "I'll fix it later"
which
> > encourages sloppy and poorly conceived work.
>
> I agree. The ' I'll crop a photo because when I took it I was already
> cropping the world ' is just plain lazy. Why look through the viewfinder
at
> all if your going to do your composing "post-exposure"?
>
> I don't think anything is wrong with cropping. I'll do it because of
things
> creeping in at the edges that could not be seen in the viewfinder, but I'm
> very careful when shooting. And there's of course nothing wrong with
> viewing your photos and afterwards seeing a better composition, and
cropping
> to it. That's part of the seeing/learning process. One could also take a
> photo, and when looking through the viewfinder already plan on cropping as
> with panoramas.
>
> I am wondering about submissions of photos to be published. Do the
> submitters present the original uncropped neg/slide or do they submit a
> cropped version? Cropping a slide requires a dupe that is essentially
> magnified to the point that the unwanted area is out of the picture, which
> would necessitate some slight loss in resolution (depending on the size of
> the crop).
>
> Do the "pros" get the latitude to essentially submit unfinished work and
> then work with the publisher on cropping, or are submissions generally a
> finished product?
>
> And your correct again, squandering time in Photoshop to correct a poor
> photo instead of getting right in the field is bass-ackwards. I may do it
> for family photos of sentimental value, but not as a cover for poor
> technique.
>
> Tom C.
>
>
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