Week 6 forum
Topic one
I'm going to Photograph Lebanon Oregon because it really is, and has always been my hometown. No other reason besides the fact that if I am to be honest about having a hometown nowhere else would be truthful.
Business has been coming back strong in recent years after tough times during the recession, so I though since one of the photos have to be a historical landmark the portrait should be modern. I have a friend that works at a new business (less than a six months now) so I'll try to get portraits of them and their co-workers.
A landmark is a bit more difficult in the town, especially to get with a person in frame, I'm thinking I might try to get either 1. The Welwood water tower, 2. the gazebo in Ralston park, or 3. the restoration of Strawberry Plaza.
For an activity in Lebanon? it's a smaller town so that isn't always the most frequent occurrence, I'm going to keep checking the chamber of commerce calendar for events I can make.
Topic two.
"Crop Ruthlessly"
On page 140 Edmond Arnold make the remark to cut anything not essential to the photo. I go back and forth a lot when I'm deciding to where to crop. Usually the debate in my head is weather the back or foreground adds context to the image. This passage definitely cleared that up a bit, as long as it not impeding on the message, extra is usually just distracting.
Price of cropping
In the passage on page 139 it talk about the obvious quality loss when cropping a small section of a large image, but it also mentions that it's ok to suffer quality if it better shows the story. Whilst in every case I can I'll try to keep my images sharp as possible and correctly framed, It helps knowing that image substance triumps over image quality.
