Cropping is a tweaking tool which Is primarily used, by most, to improve compositional balance. I use it often.
J Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 24, 2017, at 4:52 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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. -- 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.
