Summary: Photographers are not creators, they are editors. Unlike the painter, who starts with a blank canvas, we start with the whole world and our job is to remove all the “stuff” that doesn’t make our picture better; to pare down to the essence of the image. Ideally, we do this with the camera’s viewfinder, but sometimes, ya gotta crop.<br> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.cameraposition.com/podcast/images/CP37/MateraFull.jpg" title="Click for a larger image" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.cameraposition.com/podcast/images/CP37/MateraCrop.jpg" title="Matera, Basilicata, 2006 - Click for a larger Image"></a><br> Matera, Basilicata, 2006 – Photographs by Jeff Curto<br> (click images for a larger view)<br> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.cameraposition.com/podcast/images/CP37/CropL1.jpg" target="_blank" title="Click for larger image"></a> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.cameraposition.com/podcast/images/CP37/CropL2.jpg" target="_blank" title="Click for larger image"><br> </a>Pictures of “cropping Ls”:<br> (click for larger images)<a href="http://www.cameraposition.com/podcast/images/CP37/CropL2.jpg" target="_blank" title="Click for larger image"><br> </a><br>
