On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:12 PM, Markus Maurer wrote:
I both don't understand your point of view and couldn't agree with it
if I did.
I understand that you disagree anyway, even if you do not
understand my
point, strange ;-)
You don't seem to understand my sentence, Markus, or the rest of my
response to you. I realize that English is not your first language,
but you seem to want to be contradictory in conversations between us,
revolving upon points of language usage.
I see little point to continuing conversation in this way. However, I
have a question or thrice:
I did not qualify your PAW here but questioned whether *I* could
judge the
quality of the framing or composition when I only see a cropped
photo ...
How do you know when a photograph is cropped? What about it tells you
that what you see isn't what was intended by the photographer and
captured by the camera? Oh, you're going to say.. ."well, it isn't
2:3 proportion" or something like that. I can crop to any proportion
I wish, including 2:3, and you would never know whether I did or not.
What could knowing that a particular image isn't *exactly* what was
in the viewfinder possibly have to do with your ability to judge
whether what is presented is a pleasing composition? That just makes
no sense at all.
I regularly crop and alter the proportions of my photographs to suit
the idea, the expression I had in mind when I made the exposure. I
guess this means that you simply will never be able to judge whether
you like one of my photographs, which pretty much makes your
statement "I like the photo too btw" absent of meaning.
Thank you for your comments.
Godfrey
