On Aug 16, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Markus Maurer wrote:
I could not judge the quality of the framing or composition on a
cropped
photo myself, only on the full unaltered version
taken - the negative . It's too easy to correct things like that
later on
the computer for me.
I like the photo too btw.
Maybe I am just old fashioned here :-)
I both don't understand your point of view and couldn't agree with it
if I did. This has nothing to do with whether or not you liked the
photograph I presented. One judges a photograph on the basis of what
the photographer presents as the finished work, not what might have
been recorded by the camera. The camera, and the negative, are merely
means to the end, which is the photograph.
A negative is not a photograph. Whether one makes a photograph out of
a negative without cropping or with cropping has no bearing on
whether the photograph presented is good or bad. How many
photographic shows have you been to where the photographer puts a
negative up for judging?
To say that you "could not judge the quality of the framing or
composition on a cropped photo" is ludicrous.
Godfrey
