We are! See you soon. And thanks. I haven't been able to share many of my pre-digital photos. They look different, both because of what is lost in translation and because shooting with my old Olympus OM-1 was a much different experience. I couldn't afford to experiment the way I do now. But that made every shot count.
Sometimes, though you may find this hard to believe, I find myself feeling jealous of your compositional abilities. This image, for instance, is great in many ways that are exemplary of the inducement of that feeling.
I'm always happy to make a person who makes me jealous jealous in return, so I'll take the compliment gladly. One of the things I miss about my old pre-digital days is that the blur I could get with my Olympus OM-1 is impossible to capture with a digital camera. Blur is just different now. Mind you, I like the new blur. I just miss the old one.
Composition-wise, I do think it matters that I never have the moxie to crop. Having to pay obsessive attention to the margins of the frame has made me a better photographer, even if my reluctance to use technology to my advantage is a little too old school.
I completely understand--and appreciate--your need not to crop photos. What little training I got, in the one photography class I took, especially emphasized that aspect of photographic composition. We actually weren't allowed to crop our photos. I still try to practice the non-crop method. Often I'll reject a photo I took, based on some little thing I missed on the edge or corner of an image when I was composing it. But sometimes, circumstances don't allow me to get just the right angle and composition simultaneously--and then I resort to it.
I'm curious as to just how you achieved that blur. It's so aesthetically pleasing. Is it a product of the film? The light and movement? Focus? All three?
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Sometimes, though you may find this hard to believe, I find myself feeling jealous of your compositional abilities. This image, for instance, is great in many ways that are exemplary of the inducement of that feeling.
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Composition-wise, I do think it matters that I never have the moxie to crop. Having to pay obsessive attention to the margins of the frame has made me a better photographer, even if my reluctance to use technology to my advantage is a little too old school.
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I'm curious as to just how you achieved that blur. It's so aesthetically pleasing. Is it a product of the film? The light and movement? Focus? All three?