This is the best response to Eri'c question I could imagine.
I am impressed with Cotty's epistolary talent.
And I am happy to undersign the last statement.
When I was giving workshops "Photography and Dancers", one of the aspects
discussed was how some photos could be improved by cropping (and framing
in general - while shooting and in post).
Igor
Steve Cottrell Tue, 24 Jan 2017 06:20:08 -0800 wrote:
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!
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