Hi Markus,
I respectfully disagree with your first statement. I just read Gofrey's
response and was in the process of writing something similar. The image you
looked at and saw was *the photo*. When cropping or anything else occurred
is irrelevant.
The question is "Do you like the image you viewed"? You can make judgements
as to whether you like the composition, etc., of that image.
"Correcting" things on the computer is no different than altering things in
a darkroom, or cropping a final print. So whether the photographer decided
to crop in-camera by stepping a foot closer to the subject, or decided to
crop afterwards on the computer, does not matter.
One should try not to be locked into the mindset that the perfect image must
be captured at the time the shutter is released. Certainly do your best to
make that the case, as that is the starting point, but remember that there
is more to photography than just pressing the shutter release. What's to
say that one cannot change one's mind and prefer a second composition better
and achieve it through cropping after the fact? That's part of being human
and there's nothing inferior or invalid about the resulting image.
I used to think along the lines that you expressed, because I never did any
darkroom work myself. Once I started scanning my own transparencies, my
viewpoint started to change. When I got the *ist D then I found myself
thinking that the end-image I produced is what truly counted.
Tom C.
From: "Markus Maurer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: PAW: People & Portraits #30 - GDG
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:20:03 +0200
Hi Paul
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 :-)
greetings
Markus
>>
>>I agree with Tom on this one. I think it's my favorite from among
>>Godfrey's recent work. The subject is just delightful, and the
>>framing and composition are excellent.
>>Paul
>>> > Thanks for sharing. BTW, I think this shot has some
>>> > marketability. Definitely woorks as a greeting card. My 14-year
>>> > old son just told me that he saw on a Jones Soda bottle, that they
>>> > are looking for new B&W images to put on their products.
>>> >
>>> >> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW5/30.htm
>>>
>>
