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jk wrote:
Unfortunately you cant really zoom these pictures as I have made them small so they dont get botted.
Also they are downloaded from the Fuji site that I moderate on and they seem to have been further crushed/compressed.
I will post a larger sample file when I have time.
Thanks JK, that's good, I can see how difficult it must be to capture the action, expression and mood of these events. Images 1949 and 1930 I like best, image 1949 is suffering a little with a distracting background which was what I was alluding to when I said I would prefer the largest format available, which together with a very fast lens like the 85-f1.4, can improve separation. I think subject separation is very important and lifts an image to the viewers attention.
I think we have to decide if we are making a true photographic record or a piece of art to appeal to the viewers eye. I feel in most cases the latter is my objective. An artist can include or exclude, emphasise or subdue and guide the viewers eye to the subject in a drawing or painting much more easily than a photographer can in a photograph. However, using technique and technology a photographer does have subtle ways of achieving separation without resorting to heavy handed Photoshop effects.
Of course he could always sit further back and use a longer lens.
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Eric