Into the Fog

[RSL]

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[MattBurt]

Ooh, nice catch!

[francois]

Yes, very nice, just in time!

[RSL]

Thanks all.

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

Hi Russ,

I know you enjoy heavily cropping your work (calm down, it's only a joke). But I do think the reflection of the bush on the left, wouldn't mind if you were to crop it out, to make the picture into a square format. Because this way, I think the shot would then be elevated all the way up to being at the "wall hanger" level.

Dave

[RSL]

Hi Dave, Actually, my cropping rule applies to street photography (my favorite by far) but not to landscape. I crop the heck out of birds in flight because I'm shooting with a 70-300 lens on a Nikon D850. But in this case I don't agree. I think the darker weight on the left of that picture belongs there.

But keep critiquing. I appreciate it.

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

Hi Dave, Actually, my cropping rule applies to street photography (my favorite by far) but not to landscape. I crop the heck out of birds in flight because I'm shooting with a 70-300 lens on a Nikon D850.

Well, well, well... in all the years I have been posting on Lula, I never knew that and suspect, this may be due to your once rigid rigid rules on cropping for any picture, having slowly softened over the years, to the point that you only now hold that view for Street - which is fine. But I think we all gradually change over time, for better or for worse and what with sensors being so densely packed full of pixels these days, then why not have a little crop now and again, but only if the picture needs it of course.

But I do agree Russ, Street or at least the 'art' of Street, is all about the decisive moment and recording the scene the moment it happens, without cropping.

But in this case I don't agree. I think the darker weight on the left of that picture belongs there.

Well here is my rough and ready crop (see attached) and which I find a little more 'symmetrically pleasing' to my eye. Yet I am not saying you are wrong and I am right, but more along the lines of pointing out how we all see things differently - I think 

But keep critiquing. I appreciate it.

No problem Russ 

Dave

[RSL]

Hi Dave, I tried to answer you but something's really wrong with LuLa.

Russell

[RSL]

Let's try it again.

I've often criticized those who bang away and then try to find something useful the can crop out of the resulting mess. But I've never been the kind of HCB advocate who absolutely refuses to crop (though HCB cropped twice that I know of -- both major productions). Sometimes you just can't get exactly what you want in a street shot, and you need to "adjust."

But landscape is a different bag of problems. There's no way, with a 70-300mm lens I could catch satisfactory pictures of the four eagles who were fishing in our local lake a week or so ago. I had to crop a great deal to make them large enough to see properly. At that point you end up with other problems that DxO's PureRaw can solve. I could move to a 150-600mm lens, reducing one problem and introducing some worse ones. So I crop.

You're right. We all change over time, and I've changed a lot over 93 years.

By the way, speaking of street photography, you might want to look over my most recent article on PhotoPXL. It's title is "What Makes Street Photography Work?"

[Leszek Piotrowski]

Yes, cropping? Well good? or bad? depends,...

If one is not totally "pre" pared, nor having equipment ready to go,.. against the subject in question?... well, you know, must admit that I crop more than I want.  So be It.