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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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?