Paul via phone
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 7:47 PM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > I can't tell who said what :-). In any case I regard the crop as an essential tool and one of the brushes used in the art of photography. Others, of course, differ. >> "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. -- 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.
