Yes with digital you can pass off images that are not even photographs.
Which is why it is better to shoot digital. With digital, you can do anything you want with the image, and add black borders at the end, with edge markings for whatever film you would like to assign to your image. Not that I know anything about it. Really.
Besides, when you print with black borders, all those problems enhance authenticity. If you don't see black borders, God only knows what fakery the photographer has been up to in the darkroom. And don't even get me started on cropping. I mean if you think every negative is an opportunity for a scavenger hunt to see if you might have inadvertently gotten something good, go for it. I call that the Cracker Jack approach. You rarely get a decent prize. Sure, every once you do, but as a way of working, it leaves a lot to be desired.
I would suggest a Nikon F2 for that purpose.That is my biggest gried on 35mm. I would definely like to have 100% viewfinder on my SLR's.
Successfully too. Since (almost) nobody prints anymore, it's impossible to know.Yes with digital you can pass off images that are not even photographs.
Every person has their ways of working and reasons for doing so. Hobbiests, artists, and commercial workers in photography all have different and over-lapping needs and approaches.A lot of photographers say it's the final print that counts. I don't think that to be the case for many of us. The process of "capturing" a photo is a contemplative process. You can get out in nature and be one with it. That in itself is enjoyable and positive. I enjoy fishing. But I usually throw them all back. I really don;t care if I eat them. The fun is in the fishing. If you enjoy shooting and derive pleasure from that, do you really need to print all of them? Who were the pros who had thousand of unprocessed exposed film rolls when they died?
All this talk about careful composition and walking around the subject and studying for the best angle, etc. only applies to stationary subjects, such as landscapes, still life or architecture. There is no time for such when trying to capture a moment, a person passing through a beam of light from a window or intersection, capturing an expression in a portrait or a moment of action in a moving scene such as sports or wildlife. And no matter how perfect the composition, if you don't have that moment on film, you don't have the good photo that could have been. HCB (remember, they guy who said you should never crop) famously cropped his photo of the man jumping over the puddle. Because it was the instant that mattered, he cropped to get the best composition from that instant. And to hell with aspect ratios. Print what you want. Why should paper or camera manufacturers determine what ratio your photo should be?
They do not have a square format, so I just turn my nose up and go shoot film.
I would suggest a Nikon F2 for that purpose.
My Fuji XT-3 has and it I use it very often when photographing in digital. I also use square crop on smartphone.. Square just works.
It is just like Hasselblad said, "Square is the perfect format."
The only reason I haven’t picked up an F3 yet (HP or otherwise), is because of the electronics. I had Sover Wong service two F2 bodies for me last year, and I think they’ll still be running long after I am.I would suggest F3HP but I don't have any single Nikon lens..
The only reason I haven’t picked up an F3 yet (HP or otherwise), is because of the electronics. I had Sover Wong service two F2 bodies for me last year, and I think they’ll still be running long after I am.
Cropping!I sometimes take failed platinum prints and cut out nice little sections as postcards.
BINGO, as they say. It is possible to build one's skill to a point where those images that would otherwise have been missed by not cropping, can be made without cropping.I have not had a problem doing that. It takes practice to build the skill. You just need to get out there and work on it.
Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Doing what?I have not had a problem doing that. It takes practice to build the skill. You just need to get out there and work on it.
With enough practice you can take pictures having remarkable compositions, true alignment and complete lack of distracting extraneous detail so that the best print from the negative is one that is not cropped.Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Doing what?
I take an insistence on not cropping as meaning that a photographer will only choose to make photographs of things that fit nicely into the viewfinder/ground glass of the camera that they are using, using the lenses and camera positions available to them.Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Doing what?
You can take even more pictures having remarkable compositions, true alignment and complete lack of distracting extraneous detail if you crop with care. And no one will notice any difference or care for that matter.With enough practice you can take pictures having remarkable compositions, true alignment and complete lack of distracting extraneous detail so that the best print from the negative is one that is not cropped.
You can take even more pictures having remarkable compositions, true alignment and complete lack of distracting extraneous detail if you crop with care. And no one will notice any difference or care for that matter.
I have given up on pre-rinsing my digital work.Since when we have discussed about the end result (finished photographs) on this forum? It is far more important if you pre-rinse or not! /s
Sorry, I'm a bit confused. Doing what?
I take an insistence on not cropping as meaning that a photographer will only choose to make photographs of things that fit nicely into the viewfinder/ground glass of the camera that they are using, using the lenses and camera positions available to them.
I prefer to choose the aspect ratio of my photographs, and don't like it when my cameras insist I am wrong.
So in short, crop whenever you need or want to.You assumed wrong. One does the cropping in the view finder to minimizing cropping in the darkroom. Not all compositions will work in any given format, so then the object is to crop the best one can in the view finder to have less cropping done in the darkroom and keeping the maximum negative area to work with. Yes, one can use a wide angle lens and crop like mad later the way news photographers did with press cameras OR one can use a wide angle lens, machine gun everything and then spend hours pouring over prints to find a tiny part of a photograph to work on and then complaining about the size of the grain. It is much better to become a skilled photographer in the first place.
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