On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:25 AM, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > David Mann wrote: > >> We're cropping reality every time we take a photo. > > Mark! > > However: this is also a great observation that is often overlooked. Aside > from choosing the specific image of the area I am in, I now find myself in > the digital age drawn to cropping from the original I've taken. I often > wonder if that is because I can, simply due to the large image size, and I > can take another look at the image (I often leave photos a week or two and > come back to them fresh in LR or Elements), or I didn't frame the subject > taken well enough? Maybe both? Or is it simply as I originally suggested, > because I can? > > Whichever way, reality often gets snipped again.
I think, for me, it's information overload that causes me to crop sub-optimally at picture taking time, so recropping later when the turbulence in my head has quietened down results in very different takes on the scene. I have yet to learn this though, so I often crop too close and am forced to use the wonderful tools in Photoshop to gain back some space -- which only works for simple backgrounds of course. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
