On Aug 17, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Markus Maurer wrote:
... It's about judging how well you
mastered the situation regarding the composition and framing at the
"very moment",
something people seem to admire HCB for example so much for.
This seems to say that you wish to judge the photographer and his/her
way of making photographs, not the photograph itself. They are two
completely separate things.
The most important part of a photo for me is the main subject and
the moment
shown, here it would have been the woman and here pose. Second I
can like he
colors or lack of, the light, the shadows and more. I can like the
idea that
made you take that photo. All may be a part of the overall
composition and is influenced
by the framing and/or cropping, but I could
well like one part of your photo enough to forget about the rest.
I look at the scene depicted in a particular exposure and work my
composition from that, both in the viewfinder when I'm taking the
shot and in the lab/computer when I'm rendering it. I don't like to
be constrained in photographic seeing by the format proportions of
whatever particular camera I happen to be carrying, unless I do so
consciously as an exercise of self-discipline.
What is it about this composition that you like or don't like? Why is
the fact that it is not the entire scene captured by the camera an
issue for you? Judging people's pictures by an aesthetic notion of
the way that they make them seems very odd to me.
I told you that for some of you PESO/PAW before: I did like the
subject you
showed and the b/w tones but not the cropping at all.
It would be helpful if you could articulate what about the particular
framing in a picture is not to your liking, rather than that it might
not be 100% full frame which is displeasing .. The latter
consideration is simply not a factor of much significance to my
photography.
Godfrey
