Re: Comments from the Creator of "The Photograph"

[Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since I'm the cropper of whom you speak I'll simply say that the image was posted to the forum as a photograph for critique. Everything else that came of it was secondary to that. 

I felt it was a weak image because it had too much extraneous detail in it. I cropped it and as a result feel it's a much stronger image. I could have described my crop in a bunch of words but I chose to show my crop and save some time (which I'm now losing by explaining why I did it).

I am frequently asked to critique work and nine times out of ten I recommend cropping. It's really great when cropping strengthens an image. Sometimes they're awful through and through and there's nothing to be done to fix them.

Trust me when I say I like women's genetalia just fine and had the image been strong with it in the photograph I'd never have cropped it. That white curtain really bothered me, too v 

That's just my two cents. I really appreciated Mark's comments on all this.

Lea  

  

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On Apr 12, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Mark Lent <mlent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

 

I’ve sat on the sideline reading all of this and am JUST amazed…

 

Most all of you here are involved with education and teaching, so I am really surprised that there is the squelching that’s going on here. I’m also shocked that some of you would take another photographers image and start cropping and rotating it. Amazing. I live in Alabama and I’d thought that people here were up tight. WOW… some of you beat them cold.  Really amazing that such a stink can be made over a simple nude.

 

Mark Lent