[LRflex] Re: Walking along the seaside
- From: "Marc Dufour" <foto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 09:49:37 +0200
Hello Richard,
Of course, each picture, each scene requires its own format. Although
there's always more than one only way of approaching things.
For my part, during many years, I was prioritizing the vertical format,
probably influenced by my work as a graphic designer and, unconsciously,
preparing a possible application in a poster, a page of advertising, etc.
Having said that, the horizontal format seduces me, right now, especially
since I began to use the Digilux 3 and its possibility of 16 x 9.
By the way, since I use the Canon 5 d, most of my photos are suffering some
kind of cut/crop.
Cut/crop is to isolate, as to take a photograph is to isolate a piece of
reality.
Cheers,
Marc
-----Mensaje original-----
De: leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Richard Ward
Enviado el: jueves, 05 de abril de 2012 20:03
Para: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [LRflex] Re: Walking along the seaside
Synergy :-)
I think the lines of the trail now do a better job of leading the eye across
the frame and then down into the seashore.
As to me preferring narrow horizontals, I submit that what I prefer is
whichever crop is appropriate for the image be it horizontal, vertical,
square, 4x5, 4x3, 6x9, 16x9, or even 6x24 for a recent shot I printed. :-)
Once upon a time I was devoted to cropping in camera, be it with my Minolta
X700, my Rollei TLR, or my 4x5 Busch Pressman 45D, and then printing the
negatives full frame in the lab. It was a disciplinary mechanism to overcome
my tendency to rush my framing and camera angles when caught up in the rush
of shooting. It served me well until my middle 20's and my Junior Year
inncollege. I had an extended session in the darkroom with the master
printer David Plowden and he wonderfully shattered my framing paradigm with
just a few carefully chosen Questions.
Essentially, the image looks best with whatever crop is best for that image.
It doesnt care if you're shooting with a 4x5, 4x6, or 6x6, equipment. If it
needs 2x3, 5x7, or 5x20 to succeed as an image, that's what it needs.
Note: I had been doing some super wide stitched imagery lately, but that had
to do with my subject being a factory building that wasnt very tall, but
very very wide.
Sincerely
Richard Ward
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On Apr 5, 2012, at 11:28 AM, "Marc Dufour" <foto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you, Richard.
>
> When I prepared the image to upload, I was truly tempted to crop part
> of the foreground. But at the time I didn't want to lose the visual
> strength of the trail, so didn't touch it.
> Now, following your comment, I've finally tried it... Well, the trail
> loses something, but the pictures improves :) I know your love for
> horizontal formats, something I share. BTW I was very appealed, this
> morning, by the X Pan you finally took away. I'll wait pano digital
> cameras be affordable for me, if it comes someday :( Here is the
> result of your comment:
> http://tinyurl.com/cycbasg
>
> Gratefully,
> Marc
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:leicareflex-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Richard Ward
> Enviado el: jueves, 05 de abril de 2012 16:44
> Para: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: [LRflex] Re: Walking along the seaside
>
> Hi Marc,
> the image you've shared is nice - looks like you had glorious water
> color and texture and nice light to shoot in and all of those things
> are demonstrated in your shot. However I am struck with the impression
> it's not quite an image about the waterline and not quite an image
> about the trail to the waterline and because of that it adds up to not
> quite the sum of it's parts. Maybe a different cropping would help the
> sea part and the trail part develop more of a synergy.
>
> Sincerely
> Richard Ward
>
> _____________________________________
>
> My Sarcasm Fu Is Strong,
> Proceed With Caution. :-)
> _____________________________________
>
> On Apr 5, 2012, at 7:00 AM, Marc Dufour <foto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Walking along the seaside...
>>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Marc/Languedoc+Roussillon/IMG_2753.jp
> g.html
>> or
>> http://tinyurl.com/c772ae6
>> C&C welcome.
>> Best regards,
>> Marc
>>
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