At 7:26 PM +0700 2/22/09, Trevor Cunningham wrote:
The composition is largely accidental, as I believe most street photography is (and much the reason I do very little of it, if not for any other reason than I simply try to compose most shots before firing...can't get rid of my film tendencies).
Actually, I strongly disagree with this. "Street" properly done should be compositionally no more accidental than any other kind. In fact, to me composing the content inside the "frame" should be as deliberate as making the technical choices, since a component of composition is the technical part.
An emphasis on color here, there was a lot of saturation tweaking of the RAW image in Lightroom to arrive at this conclusion.
And that, too, is part of the technical decision which might be made before even releasing the shutter. Coming to your RAW converter with the mental image already pretty well developed is an important part of using the RAW converter honestly.
To put it another way, I believe that every part of getting the image could (and largely should) be already in your mind whether it's done before, during or after the moment of releasing the shutter.
Each image, when presented in its final state, is a reflection of the parameters of your "vision".
That's one of the biggest reasons that I can't imagine filling up an 8 Gig card with abandon.
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