“Making” a photograph
rather than “taking” a photograph started coming into vogue as a photography
trend more than a year ago. As with most trends, it repackages something
photographers do all the time and did from the time photography started. Before
digital photography, photographers developing their film cropped, dodged and
burned, and ‘made’ the finished print from a photograph negative they took.
Digital photography gives everyone the ability to emulate those processes in
their software.
A recent botany hike
inspired me to start cropping closer on some of my flower photography.
Botanically, that which we see as a flower may in fact be many smaller flowers
crowded on one head.
Autumn wildflower
season seemed the perfect time to start. I plan to start shooting some flowers
specifically with cropping for a new image in mind, but to start I looked at
what I took last week and chose one for experimentation.
I liked how my
original shot of a flower head turned into a field of flowers upon close crop.
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