Editing , Cropping and Manipulation
Posted: 13 Sep 2012, 10:08
Or maybe not.
I was going through one days worth of photos , with even a free old digital camera - wait time between switch on , focus and completing photo a short eternity, which meant that the subject matter , mostly moving , was sometimes missed. Thinking though how to present the photos. I could leave the main subject detached in a way from its background and surroundings , which would lose reference of where the photo was , and to an extent fashions , weather conditions and generally the subject in context. Its not a problem say a portrait photographer has ( other than maybe making the subject 'better' than their reality ), and the problems have been discussed in books, particularly street furniture and errant trees and lampposts, to digitally remove seems a good idea not to detract from the subject , yet one feels one is incorrectly changing the landscape.
Anyway noted on the BBC website , might be of interest :
A new exhibition at the Barbican in London, Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s explores the shifting political and social landscape of that time through the work of a number of photographers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-19558613
I was going through one days worth of photos , with even a free old digital camera - wait time between switch on , focus and completing photo a short eternity, which meant that the subject matter , mostly moving , was sometimes missed. Thinking though how to present the photos. I could leave the main subject detached in a way from its background and surroundings , which would lose reference of where the photo was , and to an extent fashions , weather conditions and generally the subject in context. Its not a problem say a portrait photographer has ( other than maybe making the subject 'better' than their reality ), and the problems have been discussed in books, particularly street furniture and errant trees and lampposts, to digitally remove seems a good idea not to detract from the subject , yet one feels one is incorrectly changing the landscape.
Anyway noted on the BBC website , might be of interest :
A new exhibition at the Barbican in London, Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s explores the shifting political and social landscape of that time through the work of a number of photographers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-19558613