21 May 07

Photoshop?! We don’t need no stinkin’ photoshop.

Crop this.

For quite a long time now, I have despised cropping an image after it has been captured. Going back to when I first started processing black and white images 20 years ago, I was instructed to frame the shot I wanted to take. Check the corners, check the edges. When you look through the viewfinder, you are seeing what you will put up on the wall after it is developed. That small thing will become large and it must reflect what it was, exactly, that you saw and felt, and what compelled you in the moments prior to pressing a button that would actuate a shutter and expose focused light onto a photo-sensitive emulsion.

I shoot 16:9 when using my digital camera (it has a setting for it) and when i shoot 35mm, i leave it 1.33:1 unless I’m approaching it from an experimental project standpoint.

time dilation