Paul via phone
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 7:02 PM, Bob W-PDML <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > >> On 24 Jan 2017, at 23:12, Steve Cottrell <co...@seeingeye.tv> wrote: >> >> On 24/1/17, Bob W-PDML, discombobulated, unleashed: >> >>> I try not to crop very drastically >> >> I simply don't understand this - either one crops or one doesn't. How is >> it that more cropping (supposedly) equals being drastic? > > Hacking away at something in the hope of finding a decent picture is more > drastic than straightening a horizon or making something fit what you > composed in the viewfinder. > >> >> Not being facetious, just fancy tempting some more prose out of you ;-) > > M. Jourdain: So, when I say "Nicole, bring me my slippers and give me my > nightcap", it's prose? > > Professor of philosophy: Yes, sir > > M. Jourdain: Faith! I've been speaking prose these forty years past, without > knowing anything about it! > > > Acte / Scène : Le bourgeois gentilhomme, II, 6 (Molière, 1670) > > Rhetoric. "Hacking away at something in the hope of finding a decent picture" vs. judiciously working to perfect the photo in post. Adams is said to have done his best work in the darkroom, whereas HCB turned over his film to someone else. All strategies are valid if the results are pleasing. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
