However a preplanned crop is not bad photography.
What if you see something as a square image, do you have to print it as
an oblong because that is the camera format? Howabout if you plan a crop
to eliminate distortion, as in photographing a building on the top end
of a vertical frame and then cropping the foreground drastically to make
it a horizontal? Cropping a tele-shot, as Tim mentioned, because you do
not have a long enough lens with you to fill the frame is another of
those kind of situations.
Now cropping to save a bad shot usually indicates the photographer, if
he may be called such, is not doing his job --pure laziness.
graywolf
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William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Øsleby"
Subject: Composing on screen vs. in viewfinder.
What I'm saying is that I think I need the decisive moment to make a good
composition. I also need to be emotionally connected with the motif in
some
way.
But what do I do about this? Practise is one obvious answer. And I will
practise. But, I also have a strong belief in the power and wisdom of
this
list. I would really surprise me if it doesn't burp up some good ideas
and
advise.
Good photography is good photography.
Period.
Bad photography is fixing it later, whether through large amounts of
darkroom manipulation, or massive amounts of Photoshopping (Sorry Tony, I
know it isn't a verb).
Don't know if this helps or not, and I am sure that some will disagree, but
they are probably adept at salvaging junk via Photoshop.
Strive to do as little post processing as possible, accept that this
stuff is work, and be thankful that with digital, all it costs is your
time (the most precious commodity you have).
William Robb
