On 25 Jan 2017, at 00:20, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > Paul via phone > >>> On Jan 24, 2017, at 7:02 PM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 24 Jan 2017, at 23:12, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> 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.
Quoting out of context. Read what I replied to. > "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 [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.
