I have many times walked away from a scene, even after spending a good half hour in the perceiving and the setting of camera and not seeing it come together on the ground glass. In the beginning (I am still a beginner), I felt that maybe there was an anxiety in me that would pump me up to get the image. This didn't work for me very well, and on top of that, it is no fun to go throught the process of developing the film and printing the negative to just be dissapointed. I feel now so much more relaxed in my way about getting the picture. I has to come to me. I only have to be open. "If you build it they will come" comes to my mind. I guess you guessed that I don't do any post cropping of my 8x10 negatives, even though I have felt that thought run in my mind more than once. I feel it is ok to save a negative by cropping it, but I don't do it. I would probably wouldn't hang that print on my wall. The print that hangs on my wall was a gift of mother nature as she gave herself to me. It is beautiful because it was given to me by something much much bigger than myself. The experience got imprinted in my soul forever. I wouldn't want to edit that.
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