Normal Service has been resumed
Apologies to those of you who tried to view the website over the weekend the technical glitch has been fixed. Being a bear of very little brain it would overtax my brain cell to explain what went wrong and why. Normal service has been resumed as they say in all the best circles!
Here is my interpretation of Rotterdam Centraal Station frontage. The crop has been revised slightly to remove the flag in the top LHS. I have preached for many years that there is not a link between the shot as taken and the final picture.
You as a photographer have a mind to make your own choices of interpretation. The magic box (camera) is not just a box to hold reality in, it can be the start of a new and different reality and experience.
For more on breaking the imaginary link click here
Left is an example of breaking the imaginary link.
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Hi Andy
It’s not often I post comments to blogs but I’ve been reading yours since I saw you speak at the East Midlands Chapter of the RPS on Black and White (I think it was printing – it was a while ago both in terms of time and senior moments)
I ran a gallery a few years ago and we had a young apprentice who had an interest in Photography and had studied it at school up to AS level. Her teacher absolutely forbade the use of cropping images and when she saw me cropping an image her words were “you can crop then” more in shock than anything. I have done one or two workshops with photographers of differing ages who suggested that you should get everything right in camera and the resulting image should not be cropped and somehow it was cheating.
It is a breath of fresh air to see your comment above about there being no link between the photograph taken and the final image presented. I wonder if these people ever worked in a darkroom as cropping was a technique used , I certainly did, along with dodging and burning. I certainly crop less than I did at the tender age of 13 with my Kodak Instamatic but there are occasions where I will crop to match the image I have in mind.
Keep up the good work – I hope you don’t mind but I shared your last blog about curating your on my Facebook page as I felt it would be useful for others to read. I find it difficult to “throw away the babys” but the resulting set is always better
Regards
Paul Storer
Hi Paul
Thank you for your encouraging comments. I feel all photographers should aspire to getting the composition right in the camera as far as possible. However, we live and work in an imperfect world and further consideration of how to make the strongest composition is always valuable. Much of my work is not cropped but I have no qualms about having a second go if I feel it will be worth it.
Thanks Andy