On 24/1/17, Eric Weir, discombobulated, unleashed: >I crop often. Sometimes radically. To focus more clearly on what >interests me in the image. Am I a terrible photographer?
Haha. I think that the image that is presented for the viewer is the final 'edit'. By this I mean that when the picture was taken, the photographer decided (edited) the composition, the placement from the subject, the angles, light, all the variables that go to make up the actual taking (pressing the shutter release) for the photograph. This step (can be) repeated many times for the same or different images of course. Then the next edit is selecting the images that appeal, sorting the wheat from the chaff, the brilliant from the good. Then, looking at an actual image, deciding on the output - web or print - the framing, cropping, adjustment to all the parameters available in the darkroom or on the desktop - until the final picture emerges - the final edit. The one you are happy with. This, then, is presented for the viewer to see (and of course appreciate or destroy!) >From a viewer's perspective, I look at the presented image on its merits at the time. What happened from conception to this stage is nobody's business! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) | Web Video Production ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
